Highbrow Lions don’t deserve a man like Drico

I SEE Brian O’Driscoll has been in the news again recently. In case you missed it, O’Driscoll has been speaking about his disappointment with being dropped for the third and final Lions game this summer against Australia, and he said he was a touch resentful towards coach Warren Gatland for not giving him a game in that series-decider.

It’s been interesting to see some of the criticism that’s descended on O’Driscoll’s head as a consequence – that he should have kept that to himself, the damage he’s done to the Lions, all of that.

Some of that criticism has muddied the waters a little by referring to the hysteria in this part of the world when news broke that O’Driscoll would be in shirt and tie rather than shorts and boots for the game, and there’s no doubt it was excessive, if by ‘excessive’ you mean ‘toe-curlingly embarrassing’.