RUGBY
NEELS BLOM: Clock will run out for the cabbage-eared
Rugby is a game in which its main purpose is to arouse people with proclivities for violence
Readers of Business Day’s slightly more nattily dressed sister publication Financial Mail would have been perplexed to gather from the editorial comment in the latest edition that the usually more circumspect publication supports SA’s bid to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup tournament. To be clear, this columnist opposes the staging of such a public spectacle, in this country and anywhere else on earth, on the grounds that it is an ugly game played by a side of 15 cabbage-eared knuckle draggers. Plus, the atavistic pig’s bladder design of the ball offends all that is rational and pure in a world where the technology to create a perfect sphere has long existed. It is a game better suited to private dungeons in which its main purpose — to libidinously arouse people with proclivities for violence — may be freely expressed. Just one look at the average fan in his bakkie should settle any doubts. Such is the way of freedom of expression. The editorial does, however, advance philosophy’s per...
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