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Video footage emerges of serial pitch invader being flattened during anthem at England v Ireland Six Nations game

As the old saying goes, some people get enough exercise just by pushing their luck.

Maybe the chap who ran onto the Principality Stadium pitch to line up alongside New Zealand during their anthem in the autumn is one of those.

But sometimes fortune can run out.

And so to Twickenham on Saturday when it didn’t go especially well for You Tuber Daniel Jarvis, the very same individual who featured alongside the All Blacks in Cardiff. You can read about that here

This time, he tried the same stunt ahead of the Six Nations clash between England and Ireland.

On social media, he identifies himself as the man who ran onto the pitch to stand next to England’s Tom Curry for the rendition of God Save The Queen.

Not everyone was amused.

No sooner had the uninvited figure trudged on and positioned himself at the end of the English line than a figure in a dark coat fairly flew onto the pitch and levelled him.

It seems fair to assume the man doing the levelling belonged to the Twickenham security team.

His wasn’t a text-book tackle — more a shove executed at velocity which deposited the intended target flat on his back.

Possibly, arms were not fully wrapped but it was pitch invader man who saw his involvement in proceedings cut short.

On Twitter, one poster said it had been the highlight of the weekend to see ‘Jarvo 69’ flattened.

The recipient of the heavy-duty hit at HQ has more than a bit of form.

A week after the Wales-New Zealand game in October, serial pitch invader Jarvis did his thing again when Ireland faced Japan in Dublin, on that occasion joining the Japanese line for their anthem.

He also gatecrashed a diving event at the 2016 Olympics in Rio and made it onto the field for two India-England cricket Tests.

But just maybe he hadn't sampled security on the scale that he encountered at Twickenham.

It was Dirty Harry-meets-Jerry Collins-style stewarding.

Or something like that.

Not everyone will feel sorry for the man on the wrong end of it.

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