EDDIE JONES has bizarrely predicted that he will come back to life as an OTTER one day!
The wacky England boss confessed his love of the water-loving critters in one of his most off-the-wall interviews yet.
Otter-mad Jones is half Japanese and in the Land of the Rising Sun the animals play a big part in traditional folklore.
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When asked by the Financial Times if he believes in life after death, Jones said: “I think I’ll come back as an otter. They’ve always intrigued me — I don’t know why.”
Jones is not the first member of the England squad with animal instincts.
During the Autumn Internationals prop Kyle Sinckler admitted that he used to believe he was a DINOSAUR!
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The ex-Australia coach’s love of otters didn’t just stop there.
He also told the FT that if he had a coat of arms it would feature “two little otters next to each other”.
The 56-year-old’s stunning confession and his love for such a timid animal might surprise some – with the hard-line Australian compared to a Tasmanian Devil in the past.
What was perhaps even more shocking was Jones’ admission he can sound like Donald Trump at times.
Jones had said: “My vision was that they should be more ‘English’, so I kept repeating the message in different ways. One day I put mustard on it, the next day I put tomato sauce on it — but it was basically the same message.”
When told he resembled the new President of the United States, he amazingly replied: “Yes, like Trump. Trump’s clever. There’s no denying that. The mantra ‘Make America great again’ — he repeats and repeats it. Americans were pounded with that message.”
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