Let the games begin...please

IN the current lull that marks the final countdown before the frenzy of the Rugby World Cup kick off, the media has been scraping the story barrel, scrounging around for stories of the off-the-ball — or off-the-wall — variety.

Last week, thoughts turned to sex. Or what is to be an All Black lack of it.

Under the natty headline 'No-sex All Blacks can only lie back and think of England' ran a story about how the New Zealand team management has decreed "players must sleep alone on the night before match". But wives and partners of the England team have all-access passes.