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Faf de Klerk's agent forced to refute truly extraordinary claims
By Kim Ekin
Springbok star Faf de Klerk has found himself accused of threatening to hack a South African police captain to death but insists he was in Japan at the time of the alleged incident.
A representative for Faf de Klerk has rubbished the allegations that the World Cup-winning nine racially abused and threatened to “kill” a Stellenbosch police officer. According to IOL, De Klerk has been accused by captain Lesley Smith of wanting to use a panga to hack him to death and for hurling racial slurs.
The Bok star claimed to have been more than 14,000km away at the time of the alleged incident, which is said to have occurred midday on 8 December in Stellenbosch. De Klerk, whose long blond hair is his trademark, maintains that he was in Japan at the time of the so-called “life-threatening” brawl.
But, IOL reports, Smith stands by his allegation and claimed that it’s not a case of “mistaken identity” and that he slapped the “Springbok scrumhalf” with charges, as he “clearly” saw De Klerk drive off in a Toyota Corolla, while he allegedly called him a “h*****” minutes after he “tried to kill me with a panga”.
Smith also alleged that De Klerk told him “I will f***** kill you”.
De Klerk, via his agent Lean Schwartz, is adamant that he does not even drive a Toyota Corolla.“Faf has never driven a Toyota Corolla in his life,” said Schwartz, adding De Klerk has been out of the country for two months now.
“He left the country with the Springboks for their end-of-year tour to Europe, where after he left London for Tokyo, Japan to join his new club, Yokohama Cannon Eagles.”
Footage of the 31-year-old halfback with fellow club teammates during training in Tokyo is all over the internet, with date stamps ranging from the end of November up until early this month.
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There are plenty of great Australian coaches who could do a better job than Schmidt.
Go to commentsThis piece is nothing more than the result of revisionist fancy of Northern Hemisphere rugby fans. Seeing what they want to see, helped but some surprisingly good results and a desire to get excited about doing something well.
I went back through the 6N highlights and sure enough in every English win I remembered seeing these exact holes on the inside, that are supposedly the fallout out of a Felix Jones system breaking down in the hands of some replacement. Every time the commentators mentioned England being targeted up the seam/around the ruck or whatever. Each game had a try scored on the inside of the blitz, no doubt it was a theme throughout all of their games. Will Jordan specifically says that Holland had design that move to target space he saw during their home series win.
Well I'm here to tell you they were the same holes in a Felix Jones system being built as well. This woe is now sentiment has got to stop. The game is on a high, these games have been fantastic! It is Englands attack that has seen their stocks increase this year, and no doubt that is what SB told him was the teams priority. Or it's simply science, with Englands elite players having worked towards a new player welfare and management system, as part of new partnership with the ERU, that's dictating what the players can and can't put their bodies through.
The only bit of truth in this article is that Felix is not there to work on fixing his defence. England threw away another good chance of winning in the weekend when they froze all enterprise under pressure when no longer playing attacking footy for the second half. That mindset helped (or not helped if you like) of course by all this knee jerk, red brained criticism.
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