Boys will be boys

So, the World Cup is up and running. England have started in their usual stuttery way, Australia still look like winning it and, with any luck, this weekend we'll see Samoa ending any chance Wales have of qualifying for the knockout stages.

It’s been a good start to the competition. The “minnows” are doing their upmost to cause a few scares and New Zealand are hosting well and doing everything they can through social and online media to engage the rugby public during the hours when we’re actually awake but no rugby is taking place.

All good news then? Well, nearly. Now this may come as a bit of a shock to those of you who are regular readers of this blog, but something’s made me absolutely, unapologetically and apocalyptically angry.

What’s caused this sudden gush of fury, you ask?

Well, according to most sane sources, Sunday night at the Altitude Bar at Queenstown’s Base hostel (high quality backpacker accommodation at a very reasonable rate) went something like this…

The England boys go for some drinks in a bar where entertainment is being provided by some small people – midgets, if you will. The England boys have some drinks and have some photos taken with some of the midgets and fans. Mike Tindall talks to a girl. They all go home.

But the fetid toilet bowl that is the British press have done their usual trick of taking some photos, video footage and hearsay and turning it into the scandal of the century. Every element of the story appears to have been taken out of context, sensationalised to the nth degree and written up in the gutter-press' usual spiteful manner.

So they went for some beers after winning their opening game. So they had some high-jinx (which, unlike some papers would have us believe, didn’t include tossing dwarves). So they talked to some girls. Errrr, hello? They’re professional rugby players with an average age of about 25. They’ve actually been pretty fucking restrained if you ask me.



And do you know what the really laughable thing is? The paper leading the charge on this moral crusade is the same paper whose owners, former editors and reporters are under investigation for allegedly hacking into the phones of murder victims and their families. Moral fucking high ground? Fuck off you cunts.

Keep up the good work England. Life's too bloody short.