Tuesday, 24 February 2009

Time for England to Man Up?

England captain Steve Borthwick is has asked ahead of this weekends game against Ireland that 'we hope that Joubert referees both sides equally.'

Is this a excuse of a losing side or are England really being targeted by officials?

Most people in the rugby world, love beating the English more then any other nation. Is it possible that referees have this mentally embedded in theirs views of a game?

Surely this is hard to believe?

Nobody picked up on this when England we on top of the world in 2003...or did they? Some interesting decisions were made in the scrum in the RWC final that pushed the game all to the wire...

Should the English just accepted that they have a slight harder up hill battle, that is just part of being English and they should man up.

Or maybe just stop infringing clearly and stupidly in front of the ref.