IRB must punish De Villiers for his remarks
Roar Pro By Wally James, 24 Jul 2010 Wally James is a Roar Pro
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Once more Peter De Villiers has brought the game into disrepute. The clear inference from his comments during the week were that the All Black/Springbok game last weekend was fixed – a disgraceful allegation without foundation.
This follows on from his support for Botha’s headbutt and Burger’s eye gouge (tutus and bushveldt came into it as you may recall)
Brendan Cannon, correctly in my view, labelled De Villiers a clown. The Springbok camp now threatens that unless an apology is received, never again will they darken the Rugby Clubs’ door.
In light of that, Cannon is to apologise.
What drivel, I say! Where is the independence of the media? Regardless of whether Cannon is correct, shouldn’t he be able to pass legitimate comment? Isn’t Foxsports just kow-towing to the same bully boy tactics Botha is renown for?
The answers to those questions are:
(i) gone
(ii) at law yes, but in practice it would seem not
(iii) unfortunately, yes.
The South African threat should be ignored. Cannon has nothing to apologise for.
Unfortunately for all the decent down to earth South African folk, their coach is an inane conspiracy theorist. Their Rugby Union wrongly protects him, just as he wrongly protects the aberrant thugs in his team.
It’s about time the IRB punished De Villiers rather than the SARU menacing Cannon and his employer.
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July 25th 2010 @ 6:28am
Viscount Crouchback said | July 25th 2010 @ 6:28am | Report comment
To be fair, this type of irrational whinging isn’t just a South African thing – it’s very much a Southern Hemisphere thing. We all remember the Kiwis and Wayne Barnes. And we also remember bizarre Australian claims about the Oval’s supposedly doctored pitch last summer.
Sports whinging is basically the product of a parochial, insular culture. This is why Antipodeans are regrettably prone to it, and why Englishmen, Frenchmen, Welshmen and Irishmen tend to refrain from it. The latter quartet, though by no means perfect, hail from sophisticated cultures composed of various national groups and points of view. Antipodeans, on the other hand, hail from rather cruder and considerably more introverted cultures. And it shows.
July 25th 2010 @ 6:57am
Hayden said | July 25th 2010 @ 6:57am | Report comment
Ah Viscount, I’ll rise to this one. The difference is that we Kiwis only whinged ( rightly so ) about a below par performance by an obviously out – of – his – depth pasty Pom. This is a little different from the ranting of Divvy and his hordes, who see trouncings on the rugby filed as a sign of global conspiracy against the humble, much maligned and misunderstood, not to mention unloved, Boer.
While I agree with your observations on the French, Welsh and Irish, the English invented whinging, and indeed make it a national pastime. And who could blame them, having to live in a place surrounded by so many other Englishmen, and the weather. I’d be complaining too.
July 25th 2010 @ 8:15am
pothale said | July 25th 2010 @ 8:15am | Report comment
Well the Irish did do a lot of whinging about Henry and his handball last year and feeling generally hard done by.
Though we got over it. Eventually.
Admittedly, there was a certain amount of schadenfreude in the Irish air at their subsequent and entirely predictable performance in South Africa.
July 25th 2010 @ 10:04am
Hayden said | July 25th 2010 @ 10:04am | Report comment
Agreed. It couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of narcissistic, spoiled, egotistical Gauls.
July 25th 2010 @ 10:18am
Ingoa said | July 25th 2010 @ 10:18am | Report comment
Imagine the outcry had this been the coach from one of the other two SANZAR nations or even yet a coach from the 6 nations.
PDV is a disgrace to muppets he’s a shadow puppet
July 25th 2010 @ 10:32am
pothale said | July 25th 2010 @ 10:32am | Report comment
So he’s a Shuppet, then.
Much prefer that to muppet, which is becoming over-used.
PdV needs a new term all of his own. He is unique after all.
July 25th 2010 @ 3:11pm
Doug said | July 25th 2010 @ 3:11pm | Report comment
When you point your finger at a clown, concentrate on the finger then you’ll miss most of the incomprehensible gibberish out there.
July 26th 2010 @ 1:00pm
adam said | July 26th 2010 @ 1:00pm | Report comment
This follows on from his support for Botha’s headbutt and Burger’s eye gouge (tutus and bushveldt came into it as you may recall
didnt eddie jones support justin harrisons eye gouge on justin marshall by saying how do we know that eye gouge did the damage