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Erasmus' latest Twitter mess is maybe the most shocking yet
By Ian Cameron
Springboks director of rugby Rassie Erasmus has been left red-faced this morning after his Twitter account retweeted explicit content after it was apparently hacked.
Erasmus' Twitter handle retweeted a video of a man and a woman engaged in a sexual act. Despite the revered coach getting back control of the account, the video in question, which is too graphic to post here, remains retweeted.
Erasmus took to Twitter to explain what was happening to his 90,000 followers.
"Sorry guys about that inappropriate [sic] tweets!! The handle has been hacked!! Reallly [sic] sorry about that!! I am trying to sort it out !!! Rassie."
"Guys the hackers still seem to have the retweet from earlier appearing in some places although it has been deleted on my side and reported. Hopefully my account will be sorted shortly. Rassie"
The nature of the video has given mischief-makers plenty of material to poke fun at the eccentric coach, with a veritable cavalcade of puns being left in the comments section.
It's the latest social media gaffe for the South African Rugby World Cup winner. The 49-year-old was previously accused of using a burner account to post videos relating to Springboks' rugby, and an account in which he had a dialogue for several months.
Erasmus denied that he was the 'Jaco Johan' account, even though the it appeared to highlight refereeing issues that were favourable to the Springboks' agenda. In the wake of South Africa’s defeat to the British & Irish Lions in the first Test last year, Erasmus retweeted a video from the account that compiled a video of calls that went against the South Africa, replying to the account saying: “Thanks. This is rugby – sometimes calls go for you and other times they don’t”.
Other users of the social media platform began speculating that the account sharing the video was Erasmus himself, using a burner account to air out his grievances and pretending to have a conversation with himself.
Following his tour and coaching ban for the now-infamous publication of a 62-minute long video criticizing referee Nic Berry and his fellow officials, Erasmus filmed a number of entertaining videos, with thinly veiled references to his ban and to England rugby.
Say what you like, but his account is nothing if not entertaining.
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I think we need to get innovative with the new laws.
Now red cards are only 20 minutes, Razor should send Finau on a head hunting mission to hospitalise their 10 with a shoulder to the chops.
Give the conspiracy theorists a win.
Go to commentsEngland played well enough to win but couldnt score when they needed to and couldnt defend a couple of X-Factor moments from Telea which was ultimately the difference. They needed to hold the ball more and make the AB's make more tackles. Territorially they were good for the first 60. Defending their lead and playing pragmatic rugby in the last 20 was silly. The AB's always had the potential to come back. England still have a long way to go, definite progress would have been shown had they won but it seems they are still stuck where they were shortly after the six nations and their tour to NZ
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