The Rugby World Cup generated an array of booby prizes.
Given the way the Rugby World Cup dominated the sporting landscape in 2011, this column’s team, coach and player of the year are entirely predictable: the All Blacks, Graham Henry and Richie McCaw, respectively.
The World Cup also generated an array of booby prizes. Some winners, such as Samoa’s incendiary tweeter Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu and England’s runaway bridegroom Mike Tindall, made their mark during the event; others gave new meaning to the phrase “all over bar the shouting”.
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This article appears in the New Zealand Listener issue December 24, 2011.
The full text of the online article will be available on January 9, 2012.
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