World Rugby have opened an investigation into an alleged racial slur directed at England star Tom Curry. It is alleged that the England flanker was racially abused by South Africa hooker Mbongeni M…
I do wonder if we’ll see Mbonambi out of thw final
There’s a lot of South Africans on reddit commenting that “wid kant” or “wit kant” (I forget which) is Afrikaans for open side - and he can be seen in the vids trying to get defenders back into position.
Except apparently the incident happened after the ball had already been kicked out of bounds so there wasn’t any play to refer to. Of course everything anybody is saying about it is speculation at the moment, other than that Curry complained to the referee about being called it
And half of people are saying oh, it means wide side / open side, other’s are saying no no no SA use the terms Pink Side & White Side in Afrikaans. So who really knows.
I just wish everyone would shutup about it because NZ doesn’t need anything to get SA to circle the wagons & fire up anymore than they already are for a final!
There’s a lot of South Africans on reddit commenting that “wid kant” or “wit kant” (I forget which) is Afrikaans for open side - and he can be seen in the vids trying to get defenders back into position.
Apparently kant is pronounced the same as cunt
wyd kant is wide side (open side) which it can also be yes
Except apparently the incident happened after the ball had already been kicked out of bounds so there wasn’t any play to refer to. Of course everything anybody is saying about it is speculation at the moment, other than that Curry complained to the referee about being called it
And half of people are saying oh, it means wide side / open side, other’s are saying no no no SA use the terms Pink Side & White Side in Afrikaans. So who really knows.
I just wish everyone would shutup about it because NZ doesn’t need anything to get SA to circle the wagons & fire up anymore than they already are for a final!