Gloucester triumph despite controversy

The organisers of the Premiership will today ask Gloucester if they intend to take disciplinary action against Junior Paramore, who was branded a ?disgrace? by Northampton.

The intervention was prompted not by the high tackle which landed Paramore in the sin-bin but by what was seen on the way there, his one-handed gesture at the opposition dugout during a spat with Saints coach John Steele.

The incident, eight minutes before Kingsholm rose to acclaim a thumping 22-9 home win directed by the newest recruits to Gloucester?s foreign legion, will not end with a yellow card.

Howard Thomas, chief executive of Premier Rugby, said: ?We will ask Gloucester what they will be doing about it. This is not the sort of thing we want and it needs to be addressed. I expect the club to take action.?

Paramore ? s lunge at Andrew Blowers knocked Northampton?s All Black flanker out of the match and provoked Steele to condemn the Gloucester man.

Steele said: ?Junior sets himself up as an ambassador for the sport year in, year out, but I think his behaviour is disgraceful. That incident happened totally off the ball. It?s a physical enough game without that sort of thing.?

By the time Paramore made his premature exit, he ensured that the real damage-had been done. His stampeding run for the only try of the match a minute before half-time was an early warning that a Gloucester squad even more cosmopolitan than before will take some beating at home.