Brian Moore commends Danny Cipriani's decision to head down under with the Melbourne Rebels in The Daily Telegraph.
"The truth is that there is fault all round and its roots were sown a long time ago. Cipriani's advisers have not helped him with their positioning of him as a fashion-celebrity marketing vehicle before he established his sporting credentials.
"The natural excitement of fame, exacerbated by a photogenic partner, has not been tempered by hard advice. Add to this Cipriani's lack of worldly experience and you have the ingredients for a Shakespearean tragedy.
"There are many readers who will have greeted the revelation that Cipriani sought counselling over his depressed state as merely confirmation of him as another weak-willed youth.They will dismiss Cipriani as someone who is unable to exhibit the necessary fortitude, a product of an indulgent society. And while doing so they will probably make some allusion to our troops in the Second World War or Afghanistan."
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