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The lie detector test that amusingly got under Jamie George's skin
By Liam Heagney
England hooker Jamie George has admitted he would like to play abroad at some stage in his club career. Now 32, the front row forward debuted for Saracens in the 2009/10 season as a teenager and has since remained a one-club man throughout a career that has seen him twice tour with the British and Irish Lions as well as win 77 caps for his country.
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Set to finish out the current campaign challenging for Gallagher Premiership title honours, George is expected to go on and be the first-choice England hooker at the upcoming Rugby World Cup in France, a country he suggested he would like to live in before his career is over.
Making an appearance on the latest BT Sport lie detector test, George was peppered with a wide variety of questions by presenter Craig Doyle. Among them was if he would ever like to play in a different country. “Yeah,” replied George. “There is probably only two options, isn’t there, Japan or France.”
He was then asked: “Are you quite driven by money in that sense?” George answered no and the lie detector buzzed to say he had answered incorrectly. “That’s a ridiculous question,” he chuckled on hearing the buzzer.
Doyle, who quipped at the start to George that “there is no hiding place here, even through that wall of muscle”, was also asked if he worries about his age now that he is in his 30s. “Yeah, it comes around quick,” he said.
“You suddenly become a senior player. Take the Christmas party for example, I was always the bloke at the back of the bus asking the senior players to stop at McDonald’s on the way home. Now I am sat at the front and people are asking me.”
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George was also intriguingly asked did he ever cheat on a test at school. “Yeah. Somehow, a friend of mine got the answered paper and we just memorised it. You obviously get a couple wrong. It was coursework grades.”
Why? “I was playing with England U20s. My mum was a teacher, and we found this loophole that was if you were away representing your country at the time of your exams, you just need to do one module which is coursework.”
The amusing near-six-minute video, which also included details of what had gone on during a Saracens team holiday, finished with the roles reversed and George asking questions of Doyle with the presenter wired up to the lie detector machine.
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