Very rarely do newspaper articles about rugby make me angry, there are after all far more important things in life to worry about, but this little beauty had me tutting and chuntering like a middle Englander reading a Daily Mail editorial.
Reading this I wondered if Rob Andrew had taken some kind of powerful hallucinogen or had transmogrified into Walter Mitty or perhaps had taken PR lessons from Comical Ali.
If it was not so appalling it would be funny. If that is what the man really believes then England are in deeper trouble than the already deep trouble that the Autumn series suggested. Firstly his comments are an affront to the intelligence of England fans. Secondly, they are untrue.
Rob Andrew is on thin ice with most England fans as it is. Let’s not forget he has presided over the Andy Robinson fiasco, the shameful Brian Ashton hiring and firing and now an all time record home defeat. He might be more slippery than a new Teflon pan from Mattalan, but sooner or later some doodoo is going to stick to this man. His reputed salary of £400K grates even more during the current economic climate at a time when the average fan has to wonder whether 80 quid for a top whack ticket and 4 quid for an insipid lager is really value to watch a rubbish team get spanked in a soulless new concrete block of a stadium.
My advice to England fans who do not agree with Mr. Andrew would be to boycott buying tickets to the forthcoming Six Nations matches. I intend to. And I am someone who has supported and travelled to watch England through thick and thin for the best part of 30 years.
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