We all thought that the “PdV” acronym stood for Peter de Villiers, South Africans current rugby coach. Since last week-end, PdV has a new significance – Public defender for Villains (on the rugby field). Schalk Burger normally a magnificent tough but fair rugby player let the South African rugby fans down by his behavior on the field and has made the series victory over the B&I Lions a little hollow but what made it worse was the blind defence from Peter de Villiers over the incident and the way he went about it after the match. While most observers, including Springbok supporters were shocked at the incident, PdV reacted differently – “I don’t believe it was a card at all,” De Villiers said after the Springboks’ series clinching but extremely narrow victory. What would have happened if Schalk had been handed a red card and the Springboks had to play with 14 men for 79 minutes? Would the result have been the same?

Zapiro’s cartoon of the 2nd July 2009 in the Times says it all

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