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Watch: Dupont celebrates World Player of the Year with 'cheat code' display
By Sam Smith
Fresh off winning the World Rugby Player of the Year award, Toulouse scrumhalf Antoine Dupont showed his class against a Cardiff side missing a whopping 42 players in the opening round of the Heineken Champions Cup.
Despite a valiant showing by a depleted Cardiff side, it was never going to be enough when part-timers were called upon to overcome the might of Toulouse, who comfortably won 39-7.
At the heart of it was France's star 9 Antoine Dupont, whose ability was heightened when pitted against what could be considered half-pro players. He had two monster line breaks in the first half, one coming from a scrum and another from a quick line out.
His dazzling running game was on show again in the second half when he picked up a loose ball at the back of the lineout and masterfully dissected the Cardiff defence for an incredible individual try.
The 25-year-old followed that up with a cross-field kick from the base of the ruck that hit his winger on the chest for another Toulouse try.
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That's really stupidly pedantic. Let's say the gods had smiled on us, and we were playing Ireland in Belfast on this trip. Then you'd be happy to accept it as a tour of the UK. But they're not going to Australia, or Peru, or the Philippines, they're going to the UK. If they had a match in Paris it would be fair to call it the "end-of-year European tour". I think your issue has less to do with the definition of the United Kingdom, and is more about what is meant by the word "tour". By your definition of the word, a road trip starting in Marseilles, tootling through the Massif Central and cruising down to pop in at La Rochelle, then heading north to Cherbourg, moving along the coast to imagine what it was like on the beach at Dunkirk, cutting east to Strasbourg and ending in Lyon cannot be called a "tour of France" because there's no visit to St. Tropez, or the Louvre, or Martinique in the Caribbean.
Go to commentsJust thought for a moment you might have gathered some commonsense from a southerner or a NZer and shut up. But no, idiots aren't smart enough to realise they are idiots.
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