An easy going article in today’s Dominion Post about one of New Zealand’s rugby exports:
Flutey plays a different tune
nowadays
By JIM KAYES in London – Fairfax Media | Friday, 28 November 2008
ALL ENGLAND: Former Hurricane Riki Flutey plays a different tune these days as part of the England squad to tackle the All Blacks at Twickenham.
He had just finished Wasps’ training at their Acton base in Twyford Ave when he noticed a missed call on his mobile phone.
Not recognising the number, he ignored it, had a shower, dressed and was heading to the car when he cleared the message.
A few days later Riki Flutey was sitting in a room at the Richmond Hill Hotel with one of the true legends of English rugby, Martin Johnson, talking about life in Te Kuiti.
The letters page was a mixed bag about last weekends response to the Haka. Some letters saying how they are sick of the haka being the portrayal of New Zealand, and how the violence of it is out of context and out of time for modern New Zealand, while another lambasted the English and “poms” over the insult they bestowed. I am not sure if really Welsh people are “poms”, but they are certainly not English, although of course, I have been out of the country for a while now, and things may have changed.
