RWC Semi-Final: England vs South Africa

Steve@Mose wrote: Something unpleasant reported to have happened in the match. South Africa's Bongi Mbonambi accused of racial slur in World Cup win over England South Africa's Bongi Mbonambi has been accused of using a racial slur towards England flanker Tom Curry during his side's Rugby World Cup semi-final win. Curry approached referee Ben O'Keeffe about half an hour into the match, reported the alleged comment and asked what he should do in response. "Nothing please," replied O'Keeffe. England have 36 hours after the final whistle to refer such incidents to the citing commissioner, who could then call a disciplinary hearing. With Saturday's match kicking off at 20:00 BST, the deadline for England to report back to World Rugby is on Monday morning. Curry was asked after the match whether something untoward had been said to him by Mbonambi. "Yeah," he replied, before adding that "it does not need to be talked about". It appeared that Mbonambi refused to shake Curry's hand at the end of the match as the acrimony between the two sides continued after the final whistle. ... Mbonambi is the only specialist hooker in the South Africa squad after the Springbok management opted to replace the injured Malcolm Marx with fly-half Handre Pollard earlier in the tournament. Deon Fourie, a converted back row, has been covering the position off the replacements bench.

Camquin wrote: Who is the team in green, and where is the real South Africa?

World Rugby to review South Africa star's alleged use of racial slur

My (biggest) problem with ITV's coverage is that you've got a huge TV audience of casual viewers being told by Woodward and Dallaglio that the ref doesn't know what he's doing (oh, the irony...).  And then we get a social media pile-on orchestrated by people who don't understand the laws because 'respected' pundits are just as clueless and basically give them carte blanche to abuse the officials for ruining the game.  ITV have to take some responsibility and actually employ people who have watched rugby since 2003 and understand the laws of the modern game.

Mark W-J wrote: My (biggest) problem with ITV's coverage is that you've got a huge TV audience of casual viewers being told by Woodward and Dallaglio that the ref doesn't know what he's doing (oh, the irony...).  And then we get a social media pile-on orchestrated by people who don't understand the laws because 'respected' pundits are just as clueless and basically give them carte blanche to abuse the officials for ruining the game.  ITV have to take some responsibility and actually employ people who have watched rugby since 2003 and understand the laws of the modern game.

Albert Fishwick wrote: I don't know why they persist with this game.