season because of the foot-and-mouth epidemic, will be played just 11 days after the publication of Healey's book, provisionally called Foot in Mouth.
The book could earn Healey, nicknamed Mr Gobby, around £100,000. Lance Ames, managing director of Greenwater Publishing, said: 'The gloves are off.
'Austin knows he won't be involved in the next Lions tour, so he intends to say exactly what he thinks about what went on in Australia, especially as Clive Woodward, for whom he has great respect, was not part of the management team.
'He told me before the tour that he hated Australians. That goes back to when Bob Dwyer was coach at Leicester. Their relationship was so bad that Austin considered giving up rugby.'
Ironically, Healey wanted Woodward to write the foreword to his life story - but that now appears unlikely.
Like a boomerang which keeps coming back, Healey's feud with Harrison caused the departing tourists further embarrassment yesterday with the Australian claiming that he
