‘My boy proved critics wrong’

THE mother of surprise All Blacks hero Stephen Donald clamed her son had proven his critics wrong with a Rugby World Cup-winning performance.

Donald was the fourth-choice All Black out-half before the World Cup began, after heavily criticised performances in the Tri-Nations.

With the team’s out-halves decimated by injury and the William Webb Ellis cup on the line, he calmly stepped up to kick a match-winning penalty before spending the rest of the match running strongly and kicking the side out of trouble.