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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
    There's a great line in Invictus where one of Mandela's bodyguards says "Football is a gentleman's game played by hooligans, while rugby is a hooligan's game played by gentlemen."

    GO BOKKE! GO BOKKE!

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    I don't doubt for a second that Mandela's fellow said those words, but they have been around for a lot longer than that. To my certain knowledge some 70 years anyway and I cannot quite recall who it was that is reputed to have said it. Sounds a bit Churchillian?
    " Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the adherence of idle minds and minor tyrants". Field Marshal Lord Slim.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
    I don't doubt for a second that Mandela's fellow said those words, but they have been around for a lot longer than that. To my certain knowledge some 70 years anyway and I cannot quite recall who it was that is reputed to have said it. Sounds a bit Churchillian?
    It does sound like something Mr. Churchill would say, Jock. Regardless, it was a great line in the movie.

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    Unfrtunately the matches are being shown in the middle of the night here in Europe, I may stay up for the Scotland v England game, hoping we hammer them, particularly with misery guts, Martin Johnson in charge of the English

    I see Scotland received a great reception when they arrived at Invercargill, with many kilted Scots and a piper greeting them

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