What’s “Um” in Welsh?
The Telegraph - A good kicking
If the Welsh Rugby Union thought that preventing the New Zealand players from performing their haka at Saturday’s international would put the visitors off their game, it was deluded. The final score of 45-10 in the visitors’ favour was no surprise, and the indignity of having to conduct their pre-match ritual in their dressing room, far from demoralising them, is likely to have made the All Blacks more determined than ever to trounce their petty-minded hosts.
It is not easy to score an own-goal in Rugby Union, but the WRU seems to have managed it. For not only were Welsh spectators obliged to see their team ground into the mud, albeit predictably, but they were not even allowed to witness the Kiwis’ traditional warm-up, which for rugby fans is part of the fun of watching this perennially outstanding side take to the turf. Let’s hope the Welsh have learnt their lesson.
They wouldn’t let them do the haka?
November 27th, 2006 at 10:30 am
Because the Welsh took it far too seriously and wanted a right of reply. May or may not have involved sheep.
November 27th, 2006 at 11:27 am
Pffff
Hehehe
November 28th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
Today I learned about Legs Before Wickets which makes sense I guess and Leg Spinners and their near demiss due to Carribean speed merchants.
I despair of getting a clue. I think the only thing to do is find a match and watch and listen.
November 28th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Yeah, pretty much. Next time I’m home for any length I rather fancy infiltrating the expat Indian programmer community for an afternoon.
November 29th, 2006 at 2:15 am
Which is why Half you should raise several glasses of something cold and foaming when you hear/read about the great Shane Warne (playing in the current series for Australia), the leg spinner who changed the nature of the game, ended the dominance of the West Indian fast bowlers and restored to the game those qualities of wit and fantasy without which it descends to something brutish. Forget the fact that he’s fat, displays hair implants which he’s dyed blond, and has pursued a personal life rendered unnecessarily complex by the invention of the mobile phone - the guy is an imperishable hero of the game. Cheers Mate!
November 29th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
pursued a personal life rendered unnecessarily complex by the invention of the mobile phone
Okay, Ima got eyes, I’ll modify and plagiarize.
Dang that’s good.
November 29th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
Isn’t it? I mean, even without what scant knowledge I have of the times and times of Shane Warne, there’s just so much there to imagine.