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Article: Nothing wooden about the Plank He is best remembered for his spat with Austin Healey on the Lions tour, but there is more to Justin Harrison than meets the eye
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- November 4, 2001
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At 6ft 8in Justin Harrison may be as long as one, but he
certainly isn't as thick as one - a plank that is. And since he is
about to complete a degree majoring in sports marketing he probably
ought to copyright "The Plank" epithet so famously placed on him by
England's Austin Healey.
Harrison was in Madrid with the Wallabies this week. On the field
he was a feisty, scrum-capped mobile crane as the gallant, tousle-
haired Spanish team were put to a predictable 92-10 slaughter. Off
the pitch he's a stooping, slightly shy, quite serious, ginger-
stubbled, 27-year-old almost disappointingly desperate to avoid