Schalk Burger: banned for eight-weeks

SOUTH AFRICA forward Schalk Burger has reacted to his eight-week suspension byinsisting: “I am not a rugby thug.”

Burger will miss tomorrow’s Test series finale against the British and Irish Lions at Ellis Park after being banned following a first-minute incident during South Africa’s 28-25 win in Pretoria last weekend.

He was found guilty of making contact with the face in the eye area of Lions wing Luke Fitzgerald, but received only a yellow card.