Wallabies suffer Kiwis’ spitting fury

THERE was a nasty undertone to Ireland’s victory over the Wallabies last Saturday, if reports in the Antipodean media are to be believed.

While the Irish team embraced a new section of supporters as the locals got behind the men in green, it seems the Kiwis are more than living up to their mantra of supporting the All Blacks and “anyone who’s playing the Aussies”.

By Monday morning, reports were spreading of Australian supporters being spat on and verbally abused by New Zealanders during the game at Eden Park and its aftermath in downtown Auckland and there followed a mixed reaction from Kiwis either anguished or embarrassed by such behaviour or outraged by perceived double standards from their cousins across “the ditch”, the colloquial term for the Tasman Sea that separates the two nations.