Rugby must act after attack on O’Driscoll

THE best that can be said about the perpetrators of the assault on Lions’ captain Brian O’Driscoll is that they are not hypocrites.

They knew exactly what they had set out to do, what they did, and with that mindset could not in conscience approach the victim to enquire of his well-being, let alone wish him well as he was being carried off.

This almost fatal behaviour cannot be glossed over as part of the game of rugby. Rugby owes it to itself and to the rest of the sporting world, not to mention the world generally, to make a telling example of this atrocious happening.