Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Hypocrisy Watch: Ali Williams criticizes the referee (Apr. 28, 2013)

Ironic quote of the weekend, probably of the whole year, came from the Auckland Blues captain Ali Williams, after his team went down by one point in Brisbane: 

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"It comes down to what the referee sees. That hurts, that sucks." 

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The referee he was complaining about was the notorious CRAIG JOUBERT. 

Just eighteen months ago, not a peep was heard from Williams after he and his All Black team-mates had been effectively gifted the World Cup not by a bad luck call, but by Joubert's defiant refusal to penalize their flagrant repeated fouling of a superior Tricolors team. 

This time, though, after Joubert had actually done what he is always supposed to do, and refereed a match honestly, Williams is whining and bitching about not a systematic refusal to do his job, as happened to Williams' benefit in the RWC final, but one marginal decision. 

As the French fan would say: quelle hypocrisie

As New Zealand observers of this tiresome streak of self-involvement would say: fucking idiot. 

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