Los Pumas 2020
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@taniwharugby said in Los Pumas 2020:
Seems a bit rough being punished so severely for things he said when he was 18, but the world is a different place now, so Argentina Rugby was in a tough position.
I haven't seen the tweets, so can't comment on the severity. Seems weird that this comes out so late in the day though.
Anyway, for comparison if you didn't go to jail, you get a clean slate after 7 years in NZ
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The incident mentioned before that had put rugby in a rather bad light
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/11-rugby-players-arrested-after-21320585
The tweet which is probably the most damning isn't actually what it appears on the face of it (quoted from news corp Australia, so public knowledge now) “SOUTH AFRICA baby! I’m finally leaving this country full of blacks ouch.”
That is when he is leaving Argentina to go to SA. Blacks, is a term Peronists use for lower class and lefties, not so much skin colour as wealth and political affiliation. People like Maradona. -
@Machpants said in Los Pumas 2020:
The incident mentioned before that had put rugby in a rather bad light
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/11-rugby-players-arrested-after-21320585
The tweet which is probably the most damning isn't actually what it appears on the face of it (quoted from news corp Australia, so public knowledge now) “SOUTH AFRICA baby! I’m finally leaving this country full of blacks ouch.”
That is when he is leaving Argentina to go to SA. Blacks, is a term Peronists use for lower class and lefties, not so much skin colour as wealth and political affiliation. People like Maradona.That kind of puts some context that I didn't get, I guess that explains some of the ruckus over Maradona.
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@DMX said in Los Pumas 2020:
@Machpants said in Los Pumas 2020:
The incident mentioned before that had put rugby in a rather bad light
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/11-rugby-players-arrested-after-21320585
The tweet which is probably the most damning isn't actually what it appears on the face of it (quoted from news corp Australia, so public knowledge now) “SOUTH AFRICA baby! I’m finally leaving this country full of blacks ouch.”
That is when he is leaving Argentina to go to SA. Blacks, is a term Peronists use for lower class and lefties, not so much skin colour as wealth and political affiliation. People like Maradona.That kind of puts some context that I didn't get, I guess that explains some of the ruckus over Maradona.
Yeah there is a racial element to it. Rugby is seen as right wing/rich. The term Blacks is used for the poor/left. But alot of the more indigenous people are in that bracket, and those with more Euro blood are the rich - generalisation, but true in most of South America.
My Bro in law is a professor in South American Culture and a huge soccer fan
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Puma are the only SANZAAR team that can come out of 2020 with their head held high, tweet storm not withstanding. Boks too scared to play, ABs awful 50% winning record and first loss to Puma, Ozzie won one game. Puma defence is pretty impressive, they just need to add some attacking verve to it. Very much England of the south, without May.
