FIFA

What a mess at FIFA and Sepp Blatter – doesn’t he look a little  like Silvio Berlusconi – is trying to hold it all together. Way too much money involved there and these arguments and accusations seem less like finger-pointing among colleagues and more like a fall out among conspirators. Is Sepp up for an “Et tu, Brute…thus falls Caesar” moment sooner or later?

This just makes me think back to old Doc Craven who – even at an old age – used to get his driver, Manie? – to take him to the Coetzenburg Rugby Fields and watch us practice on those long and lovely autumn afternoons in Stellenbosch. He inspired so many to love rugby for the game and fought hard against the intrusion of money into sport.

Or, maybe in the words of David Kramer – you have to understand “what it feels like to dummy and to sidestep with the leather ball in your hand”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rugby – that’s the beautiful game…