In light of the 'Bloodgate' scandal and the incredible images of 'blood' flowing from Tom Williams' mouth, Harry Pearson writing in The Guardian thinks that Quins could have have done a better job!
"Last weekend Sir Alex Ferguson said that play-acting was killing football. That may be right. The only trouble is these days it's very hard to tell if football is really dying, or just clutching its throat and making gagging noises in order to disrupt the rhythm of its competitors.
Rugby union, meanwhile, has fallen victim to what everybody connected with the sport is calling "The Bloodgate Scandal". Frankly I'm disappointed that followers of the oval ball game have chosen to draw on a shabby piece of US political impropriety for their suffix to the Tom Williams business. I would have thought a club of Harlequins' tradition and standing might have adopted something more noble and blue-bloodedly British, christening the whole gory debacle "The Bloodfumo Affair", perhaps.
Former coach Dick Best tells us that the use of blood capsules in the Premiership is common nowadays. "I believe they are the sort you'd find on the set of any film with stunt scenes," he said last week. If this is indeed the case then we can only hope that in future rugby union will bring in some proper advisers on the use of the stuff, because I'd have to say Dean Richards and his men didn't make the most of what they had, Williams sloping off the field looking like a toddler who'd just had a raspberry slushy when they could have given us something like the final shoot-out in Bonnie and Clyde."
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