Henry fumes at Welsh ‘village idiots’ remarks

GRAHAM HENRY has apologised on behalf of the All Blacks and promised to “sort out” the New Zealand journalist who wrote an article dismissing Wales as the “village idiots” of rugby.

The New Zealand Herald columnist Chris Rattue kicked up a storm this week when he laid into the standard of Welsh rugby and their misguided rugby heritage.

It is 53 years since Wales last beat New Zealand and Rattue wrote: “It’s pointless going on about the great history of All Black and Welsh rugby because there isn’t one.