Originally Posted by
cajunscot
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."
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T.
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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