Shaun Edwards gives Twickenham thanks on a Wales wing and a prayer
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Defence coach tells how a priest, the morning after England’s defeat, brought home to Edwards the scale of his team’s Rugby World Cup achievementShaun Edwards rose early on Sunday morning, even though the Wales squad returned to their Vale of Glamorgan base from Twickenham only at 3.15am. The defence coach went to mass at a church a mile away and if he had not been aware of the impact of the victory over England on a nation in which rugby union is an alternative religion, he did not have to wait long.“The priest came out and put up his hands in celebration,” Edwards said. “It is the first time…





