Sale’s Steve Diamond ‘moves on’ and underlines his record with players

• Director of rugby: ‘I’m a massive fan of looking after our players’
• Diamond puts row behind him and focuses on facing Saracens

Steve Diamond has launched a vehement defence of his managerial style at Sale as he pointed to a number of high-profile players to commit themselves to a club he claims has the “lowest injury count in the Premiership”.

Sale’s uncompromising director of rugby has come under scrutiny after he confronted a journalist following Saturday’s victory at Gloucester and invited him to “go outside” after taking issue over an article written three months before in which the reporter, Sam Peters, had been critical of him. Peters, who was reporting on Saturday’s match for the Sunday Times, has said he will not take the matter further and, with the Rugby Football Union insistent they can act only on a direct complaint, Diamond declared the matter now closed, adding: “We move on.”

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