Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere but is anyone else following this story? It hardly seems to be causing a ripple in the media but can you imagine if it had happened in football?
After this and the Bath drugs scandal there are a few people that used to turn their nose up at football getting brought right back down to earth.
I like my club rugby and this story is facinating. In a nutshell a fake blood capsual is smuggled onto the pitch and given a player to bite on to take advantage of a loophole in the substitution laws where blood injurys can be replaced by already substitued players untill the blood injury is sown up and the player can rejoin the game. They got their ace goal kicker who'd already won won game with the last kick of the match in an earlier round back on the pitch after their 2nd choice kicker also got injured.
The fact that the only one found guilty was the player who bit on the blood pack and got 12 months ban, while the physio, doctor and mangament team had all charges dropped lead to the the player appealing and also the European Governing Bodies diciplinary body appealing against their own decision! This one is going to run and run...
Sky sports shows the player putting something in his mouth him then biting down on it... the player, Williams, winks at the bench as he walks off the pitch.
Problem is no one can prove that the actual thing 100% took place, which is why the managment, coach and Physio were all not charged, yet they know some wrongdoing took place and hammered the one person who couldn't say he didn't know what was happenening, the player.
Williams however dissapointed how he's been treated by his club is ready to blow the whistle and get his own back on the club to get out of his 12 month playing ban. Harlequins have parted company with their director of Rugby in an internal investigation while the physio has joined England!
[cite]Posted By: DRAddick[/cite]When it comes to football NOT faking an injury would be the rarity worth reporting.
I doubt most of the wimps that roll around on the football pitch after the slightest knock would agree to having someone slice their mouth open with a scapel for the good of the team though.
Truly a bizarre case which would be all over the news if it'd been football and set to get bigger if he carries out his threat to name names. The sport of gentlemen eh?
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I like my club rugby and this story is facinating. In a nutshell a fake blood capsual is smuggled onto the pitch and given a player to bite on to take advantage of a loophole in the substitution laws where blood injurys can be replaced by already substitued players untill the blood injury is sown up and the player can rejoin the game. They got their ace goal kicker who'd already won won game with the last kick of the match in an earlier round back on the pitch after their 2nd choice kicker also got injured.
The fact that the only one found guilty was the player who bit on the blood pack and got 12 months ban, while the physio, doctor and mangament team had all charges dropped lead to the the player appealing and also the European Governing Bodies diciplinary body appealing against their own decision! This one is going to run and run...
Problem is no one can prove that the actual thing 100% took place, which is why the managment, coach and Physio were all not charged, yet they know some wrongdoing took place and hammered the one person who couldn't say he didn't know what was happenening, the player.
Williams however dissapointed how he's been treated by his club is ready to blow the whistle and get his own back on the club to get out of his 12 month playing ban. Harlequins have parted company with their director of Rugby in an internal investigation while the physio has joined England!
I doubt most of the wimps that roll around on the football pitch after the slightest knock would agree to having someone slice their mouth open with a scapel for the good of the team though.
Truly a bizarre case which would be all over the news if it'd been football and set to get bigger if he carries out his threat to name names. The sport of gentlemen eh?
Wasn't that in "Dreamteam" on Sky ?
Hey you're right! Wasn't it involving a flare or something thrown on to the pitch?