www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/oc ... per-league

www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/oc ... per-league

T'aww they all gave him a love.

The picture that accompanies the article in the paper is a different one from the online version.
You might not believe it but he looks even more of a d!ckhead in the one in the paper.

Interesting bit from the article



Hope Leon doesn't practise his tackling 'technique' on him in training

ouchie.

He needs to grow up.

Rugby is a game of inches, an inch here or there is a missed tackle, or not making a break. From the excerpts I've seen I now understand why he failed so miserably at international level time and time again. If he'd approached his fitness as a way to play better rather than as a way of being able to drink 15 pints of lager and still make it through training the next day he might have been the real world beater half-back we badly needed to get the likes of Farrell, Sculthorpe, Peacock and Fielden to dominate the Australians.

A top class player who could have been thought of in the same breath as Langer, Johns etc.

Interesting article. I didn't like Sean Long, but the more I read about his book, and extracts from it, the more I am warming to him as it just seems that he is a big kid and has/had gone off the rails a bit.

I am looking forward to reading it

that would sum up most players pretty well

Disagree

Long has always seemed an interesting bloke. A bit of a prat as an opposition player but interesting nonetheless.

One of the games characters

It'll be one of the few RL autobiogs that I'd buy – I'm guessing it has one or two interesting stories and not one of these "went to *, played * and we won then we went to *, played * and lost" type books.

The more I hear about it the more I consider him to be a lucky recipient of athletic ability in the lottery that is the gene pool who could've done and acheived so much more with a far better attitude.

Why the British public idolise these kind of t0ssp0ts as opposed to dedicated professionals who apply themselves 150% to getting the best of their gifts is beyind me.

We'll never acheive sporting success as a a nation whilst we warm to "characters" like Long and Gazza.

Personally, I consider them wasters.