Chris Rattue, in his column for the New Zealand Herald, provides his take on the backlash Bryan Lawrence has experienced after the World Cup quarter-final he presided over.
"How comforting to know that other countries do bitter and twisted as well as we do. The bile-spitting South Africans who employed their internet skills against referee Bryce Lawrence have even outdone our lot who claimed, incorrectly, that Wayne Barnes alone stuffed up the All Blacks' 2007 World Cup campaign.
Not that it pays to judge a Bok by this sort of coverage - I'm sure that a lot of South African supporters understand their World Cup ground to a halt in Wellington because dinosaur forwards were hitched to one-dimensional backs. They had opportunities aplenty to win that quarter-final against Australia, just as the All Blacks did against France in Cardiff four years earlier”
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