Harlequins: Joe Marler charged over Jake Heenan comments

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England and Harlequins prop Joe Marler has been charged by the Rugby Football Union implicit comments made to Bristol flanker Jake Heenan.

Marler, 32, volition look a disciplinary proceeding connected Friday aft being cited for behaviour prejudicial to the game.

The incidental took spot during Quins' 15-12 Premiership defeat connected Tuesday.

"I emotion Joe Marler, but thing was said and determination was a absorption from Jake I person ne'er seen before," Bristol rugby manager manager Pat Lam said.

"We are each custodians of the crippled - players, coaches - and 1 happening we each worth and we each enactment hard to support is the close values and spirit."

Marler apologised to Heenan connected Twitter aft the lucifer astatine Twickenham Stoop.

In 2016 Marler was banned for 2 weeks and fined £20,000 for calling Wales prop Samson Lee "Gypsy boy", and successful 2020 helium received a 10-week suspension for grabbing Wales fastener Alun Wyn Jones' genitals during a Six Nations game.

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