Burger’s have-nots the real losers

THE Samoan with the unpronounceable double-barreled name called it ‘slavery’ and duly gave the World Cup organisers both barrels.

The reaction to Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu’s rant over the compressed scheduling of his country’s four pool matches into 16 days veered from recommendations of a medal for bravery to demands that the tweeting twit be sent home. Goodness knows what more foul-mouthed abuse would have poured forth had he considered the case of a country in an even worse pickle.

Namibia, led by the fearless Jacques Burger of Saracens, are about to be plunged into the most brutal schedule of all. They are obliged to take on South Africa in Albany this morning, make a four-hour coach journey to New Plymouth and play Wales there on Monday morning. Sadistic is hardly the word for it.