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Wales hit back at press

Gareth Thomas: He who laughs last...

Wales may not have set the world alight on the field at the Rugby World Cup but their players take the cake for practical jokes.

If it's not pulling pranks on team-mates by leaving farm animals in hotel rooms, it's turning the tables on the press who have given the Dragons a hard time.

One Welsh journalist learned a lesson he'll never forget after leaving his mobile phone in the team's Pornichet hotel in France.

It was discovered by Welsh players and returned to him, but not until they had texted his family and friends.

To the reporter's horror, the message to loved ones - including his wife - was a bombshell declaring he had a boyfriend and was coming out of the closet.

Frantic attempts to reassure the recipients that was not the case were then hampered as the culprits had set his display language to Turkish.