Former Ireland captain Brian O\u2019Driscoll has revealed the truth behind the controversial incident that occurred at Villa Park last Saturday.<\/p>\n
The incident in question took place before Leicester\u2019s PREM showdown with Gloucester, when head coach Geoff Parling confronted TNT presenter Craig Doyle on live television.<\/p>\n
Doyle had told fellow presenter Liam McDevitt to kick a goal as an initiation for appearing on the show for the first time. This incensed\u00a0Parling<\/a>, who shoved Doyle, shouting:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s not f***ing on, get off the pitch, it\u2019s not f***ing on\u201d, leaving the duo to exit the field quickly.<\/p>\n Following plenty of discussion around the incident, and a formally written apology on behalf of Parling, O\u2019Driscoll has revealed the play-by-play that led to the calamitous incident.<\/p>\n \u201cCraig is off doing this big, long monologue at the opening of the show,\u201d said the Irish legend<\/a>\u00a0speaking on the Off The Ball podcast.<\/p>\n \u201cSo he\u2019s in the bells of Villa Park, and showing all of the trophies that have been won over the years, the dressing rooms and whatnot. So he\u2019s coming out onto the pitch, not really knowing what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe best plans in the world are fantastic, except things happen and materialise\u201d<\/p>\n Explaining that where the kicking tee was initially put down, the Leicester Tigers<\/a> forwards wanted to do their lineouts, so they threw the tee away. But, believing that they might have the time, O\u2019Driscoll told the former football player McDevitt to put the tee back down.<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe have a quick go when Craig comes out,\u201d the 47-year-old had said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe problem was that the rest of the team had started warming up close enough to the posts, so when Craig has his spiel with Liam, and then he kicks the goal \u2013 or missed it thankfully, because if he\u2019d gotten it, it would have been closer to the players \u2013 Geoff comes over and Craig thinks he\u2019s coming up for a chat, how wrong he was. <\/p>\n \u201cAnyway, he was unimpressed by it, to say the least. Gives him a shove, and then Craig comes over and asks me my first question.<\/p>\n