Brendan Venter, coach of English rugby Union club Saracens has been heavily censured by the Rugby Football Union for eating a biscuit during a disciplinary hearing at Twickenham this week.
Venter was responding to charges brought by the RFU for touchline misbehaviour during a league match earlier this season. During the hearing he ate a biscuit (the biscuits had been provided by the RFU). He was found guilty of the offence for which he was charged and given a touchline ban, but faced further censure because he ate the biscuit during the hearing.
The RFU state that his actions showed contempt for the disciplinary process and the status of the board that sat in judgement on his offence.
The mind boggles...!!
One wonders exactly how eating a biscuit could show contempt for the majesty of the RFU Disciplinary Committee..?
Did Venter eat the biscuit in a contemptuous manner..? Did he sneer as he sat there licking the chocolate off a jaffa cake while sentence was passed..?
Did he take two chocolate fingers off the plate and hold them up in a V sign as he nibbled..?
Was the committee miffed because he took the last bourbon cream, leaving them only with rich tea for themselves..?
Is it possible to eat a biscuit in an insouciant manner, thus indicating that one couldn't give a fig (or even a fig roll)for the judgement of fools..?
How do you think somebody can use biscuit consumption to show contempt for a disciplinary hearing, to such a degree as to merit censure...?
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May 21, 2010 @ 06:46:25
thank you, you just made my day!
