CHEERS JOHNNO -
NOW CLOSE THE DOOR QUIETLY BEHIND YOU!
FRANK WORRALL rounds up the rugby fiasco.
MARTIN JOHNSON and his disgraced England rugby team arrived back home laughing and joking this week. They should have held their heads in shame and crawled back in dejection.
But their arrogant, out-of-touch attitude sums up the debacle that was England’s showing at the World Cup in New Zealand.
Half the team should never play for their country again – and boss Johnson should be shown the door forthwith. How can he expect to survive when he allowed his team to get boozed up during the tournament…days before a vital game?
It led to MikeTindall, the newly-wed in the Royal Family, disgracing himself with some woman in a bar and three other players being accused of bad behaviour in a hotel. Then there was the final insult when England’s one star of the event, Manu Tuilagi, jumped off a ferry in Auckland Harbour as a prank. Not very funny that Manu – although his fellow players who urged him on would no doubt disagree.
All the indiscipline and poor antics ultimately end back at Johnson’s door. As the man in command, he should have clamped on the jokers and made it clear they had to behave. Instead, he seemed stunned when asked why he had allowed his men out on a booze binge.
This was the World Cup, Johnno – a time when your men needed to be supreme, disciplined athletes, not acting like some throwback to the 70s when booze and fry-ups were the name of the game.
Funny ain’t it that Wales are in the semis of the tournament – and they have not touched a drop of the hard stuff since summer. Get the message, Johnno? And close the door quietly behind you, pal…
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