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When another fight broke out, the Wales full-back and orthopaedic surgeon, JPR Williams, ran fully 60 yards, in the spirit of “99”, to deliver a right hook to second row Moaner van Heerden. “That’s not something I’m proud of,” Williams said later.

…Team Rwanda’s Tour De France preparations, 10 teams too good to go down, and asks just who makes up football chants:

“Two Andy Gorams”, after the goalkeeper was reported to have schizophrenia, “there’s only two Andy Gorams”.

Dubious ad placement and content

Apparently you can Get Doug Howett Now. Click picture for post.

Links on Friday

Steve Hanson must get awfully bored watching the game from those little glass boxes – just look at what happens when coaches sit in the crowd. Jim Telfer is sportreview.net.nz’s new hero.

Forget carb-based diets and personal trainers, to be The World’s Fastest Bowler in 1979 all you needed was a packet of Winfield Red and ill-advised moustache. Presented by Richie Benaud, 12.

I’m sure TV Sports Journalism 101 must have something on live bits to camera vs taped bits to camera.

He must have a foot like a traction engine.

Observer’s ten most tormented fans

Abandon all hope all ye who enter

All Blacks at three and Spurs narrowly miss out. Between them and the Black Caps, I really know how to pick ’em.

Stuff the details

Check out this page on Stuff.co.nz, video with a massive white space underneath. Headline on the Stuff Sport homepage is ‘Nasty Rugby Fight’ (they left out the !!1! LOL! bit).

Is it:

A. A placeholder page, with little details like the where, when, teams involved and outcomes of the fight to follow soon?

B. A teaser for a damming expose of violence in sport in general and those imported from the west in particular and what this means for post-communist society in Eastern Europe?

C. A flimsy excuse to share video of a sweet fight?

Stalkipedia is go!

Ever met a famous sportsperson? Got a funny story about it or a photo? sportreview.net.nz’s new project is Stalkipedia – a community chronicle of sporting stalking.

I want your stories and your photos – the more stalks we capture, the more fun it’ll be.

You get BIG bonus points for a photo! That’s me on the right with Glen Osbourne – no great story, he was most accommodating to have his photo taken with someone that drunk. Most interesting thing – CHECK OUT THE SIZE OF HIS HAND!

All the details are over on the Stalkipedia page. Anyway, here’s a proper story to start off – the time I met Colin Meads.

Target: Colin Meads.
Stalker: Richard, sportreview.net.nz
When: 2002
Where: Muddy Farmer pub, downtown Auckland. The loo, to be precise
Details: I was having a few quiets late one Friday night, when I spied an array of then-All Black coaches and administrators regularly wobbling past our table. John Mitchell. Jock Hobbs. Colin Meads. The Hurricanes had played the Blues that night at Eden Park, and those guys were getting stuck in.

I kind of forgot all about them until I went for a slash and came around the corner into the urinals and nearly bounced off this man-mountain coming the other way. I looked up and saw the most tremendous eyebrows. I can’t stress this point enough – as someone often accused of being well brow-endowed, I was impressed. Colin makes Graham Henry look like Kate Moss. The brows belonged to non other than Colin Meads, the man, the legend, etc. He was bloody huge. I had to say something.

Me – “Can I shake your hand?”

Colin Meads – “OK”

*shakes hand*

Me – “Having a big night?”

Colin Meads – “Big night… *significant pause* ….ah ha. Biiiiiiiig night.”

And that’s it. I doubt he’d remember me. On reflection, I’d have preferred to meet our greatest in somewhere other than a pub toilet. Still, you have to seize the day, right?

Update: the first stalk is in! Mark encountered foul-tempered ex-Chelsea striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink in Cardiff. Read all about it on Stalkipedia.