France’s Peato Mauvaka cited for head-first lunge at Scotland’s Ben White

- Hooker cited for foul play after Six Nations finale
- Mauvaka had received yellow card over incident
The France hooker Peato Mauvaka has been cited for foul play after an off-the-ball incident with Scotland’s Ben White in their final Six Nations match.
Mauvaka received a yellow card for throwing himself head first into the grounded scrum-half during France’s title-clinching win in Paris on Saturday. The incident was referred for a bunker review at the time but the punishment was not increased beyond the 10 minutes in the sin-bin.
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