Dan Biggar reveals exactly what was said in furious spat with Owen Farrell

Sparks flew between the two fly-halves at Twickenham last summer

Dan Biggar has opened up on his furious on-field spat with Owen Farrell at Twickenham last year, revealing exactly what the two fly-halves said to each other as sparks flew.

The two British & Irish Lions stars angrily clashed during the second Rugby World Cup warm-up game between Wales and England last summer, after then-Red Roses captain Farrell put in a no-arms shoulder charge on Wales back row Taine Basham.

The incident sparked fury among Warren Gatland's side as they made their feelings clear towards the outside-half before he was ultimately shown a red card for the reckless challenge.

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Arguably nobody was more incensed than Biggar, however, who got into a heated confrontation with the England skipper, who would miss the start of the World Cup after receiving a four-match ban for the incident. While the Welshman has previously said that Farrell "made it personal" during the spat, he has now revealed exactly what the pair said to each other amid the melee.

After setting the scene on the Rugby Pod, Biggar said: "Obviously, the big screen comes up at Twickenham and you glance up and you can sort of see what's coming. As soon as he made contact with Basham, I've just instinctively shouted - not particularly at Faz or anyone really - "F***ing hell!"

He added that Farrell immediately snapped back with 'Stop f****Ing complaining Biggs,' as he continued: "So I told him to f*** off and he said 'What are you going to do about it you soft c****'. That was how it kind of escalated.

"I marched over and word-for-word I said to him: 'Who the hell do you think you are are going around cheap-shotting everyone? Just because the England lads don't have the balls to stand up for you.' That was the moment really, neither of us wanted to let anything go, we both basically wanted to get one up on each other."

While Farrell would go on to receive his punishment, Biggar was left frustrated in the days following the game as Warren Gatland wrote in his column with the Telegraph that he was "disappointed" with the Welsh fly-half's reaction to the situation. That came after Biggar had been told by the Welsh Rugby Union to "not make a big deal" out of the incident in his own Daily Mail column, leaving him feeling hurt.

"I think the really frustrating thing for me, which I've said, is I do a column with the Mail and when I signed up to do it, I made sure I went to the union and said 'look, I'm happy to sort of give this to you guys if there's anything which you're not happy with in that, please just tell me and we'll work around it and we'll work together," he explained.

"So I went to them on that and there was a couple of lines they wanted to take out in terms of not making as big a deal of it as it could have been. For me to have gone to them and given them the option to take few bits and pieces out and then read Gats' column in the week was kind of disappointing and I felt quite frustrated, angry and I suppose a little bit upset by it.

"I thought, for me, this is the guy who has been with you for 10 or 15 years or whatever. So I felt a little bit disappointed by it," he added. "The general gist of it was that he was disappointed with my reaction to the sending-off and that what we needed from [me] was to be calm for the young team and guide them through that difficult period. Again, Gats would have known my personality, I would have done that 10 years ago, do it in 10 years' time, it was nothing personal against England or anything.

"So yeah, there was no real need for it and especially given that I'd given the union the opportunity to change or veto anything, I just felt a little bit down about that."