final - Bad Sporters https://www.badsporters.com News Blogging About Athletes Being Caught Up Sat, 20 Jun 2020 08:56:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 The Ultimate Springbok World Cup Final XV: Schalk one of the best Boks https://www.badsporters.com/2020/06/20/the-ultimate-springbok-world-cup-final-xv-schalk-one-of-the-best-boks/ https://www.badsporters.com/2020/06/20/the-ultimate-springbok-world-cup-final-xv-schalk-one-of-the-best-boks/#respond Sat, 20 Jun 2020 08:56:50 +0000 https://badsporters.com/?p=7545 Candidates: Francois Pienaar (1995), Schalk Burger (2007), Siya Kolisi (2019) JACQUES VAN DER WESTHUYZEN All three these men have achieved iconic status – and rightly so. And having to pick just one of them to wear the No 6 on his back is no easy task. Francois Pienaar was immense as the leader in 1995. […]

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Candidates: Francois Pienaar (1995), Schalk Burger (2007), Siya Kolisi (2019)

JACQUES VAN DER WESTHUYZEN

All three these men have achieved iconic status – and rightly so. And having to pick just one of them to wear the No 6 on his back is no easy task.

Francois Pienaar was immense as the leader in 1995. He was the glue that held the team together and his powerful lead-from-the-front style made him a favourite among the players. He was gutsy and inspirational.

Twelve years later Schalk Burger was the man who the Boks relied on to add zip and spark up front. Burger was never the stereotypical fetcher flank, who scavenged at the breakdowns, but he made a nuisance of himself at every ruck and maul and showed no respect for his own body as he flew into tackles. He made his presence known and was a menace on the rugby field.

In 2019, Kolisi overcame injury to lead the Boks to a famous win in Japan. He never quite hit top form, but he played a huge role as team leader and emerged after the tournament as a darling of world rugby. He’s become a Bok regular over the last few years and in Japan stood out as a key defender and strong ball-carrier. And who can forget the touching speeches he made throughout the Boks’ campaign.

All three men played massive roles in the Boks winning the World Cup … but, forced to pick one, I’m going with Burger, who beats the other two men for player-performance.

The blond-haired terrier, who showed from an early age he was going to be a world star, overcame a life-threatening illness to lead the Boks against the All Blacks in 2015. He played 86 Tests for the national team – including many at No 7 later in his career – and for me is one of the Boks’ greatest players.

Jacques’ choice: Schalk Burger

ASHFAK MOHAMED

From the original hard man Ruben Kruger from 1995 to captain courageous Siya Kolisi in 2019, the Springboks have been well served at openside flank.

So, to choose the best of the lot from the likes of Kruger, Rassie Erasmus, Corné Krige, Schalk Burger, Francois Louw and Kolisi is a difficult call, but it is hard to ignore Burger’s immense contribution to the cause.

He actually made his World Cup (and Springbok) debut as a 20-year-old replacement No 8 in 2003 against Georgia, and earned two more caps as a substitute flank against Samoa and in the quarter-final against the All Blacks.

He shrugged off a serious neck injury to be fit for the 2007 tournament, but drama was to follow when he was cited for a high tackle in the opening win over Samoa, and suspended for four matches.

The ban was reduced to two on appeal, and Burger returned to the side as a No 8 against the United States, and opened the scoring in a 64-15 victory.

Having missed a crucial tackle on Fiji scrumhalf Mosese Rauluni, which led to Sireli Bobo’s try that made it 20-20 in the quarter-final, Burger made up for it somewhat by throwing his body around in defence in those crazy last 20 minutes, while also carrying the ball strongly off the back of the scrum as a No 8.

He proved that he also has some skill in the semi-final against Argentina when he delivered a superb try-scoring pass to Danie Rossouw.

The blond loose forward topped the tackles list with 55 at the end of the tournament, one more than teammate Juan Smith and French star Thierry Dusautoir – despite missing two matches due to suspension.

Burger never stopped trying in both the 2011 quarter-final loss and 2015 semi-final defeats – having come back from a life-threatening illness – but he bowed out of Test rugby with a bronze medal in London.

Ashfak’s Choice: Schalk Burger

MIKE GREENAWAY

Jeepers this is going to be a tough one … Of the three No 6 flankers to play in Springbok World Cup finals, two are captains and the other is arguably the best loose forward ever to play for South Africa.

So we have Francois Pienaar, Siya Kolisi and Schalk Burger….

Pienaar and Kolisi were unbelievably inspirational captains. Could the Boks have won in 1995 without Pienaar’s commanding leadership? What about the incredible impact Kolisi had in binding not only the team, but later the nation when he held aloft the Webb Ellis Cup?

Burger played most of his rugby at No 7, but for the 2007 final in Paris, Jake White picked him at openside, with Juan Smith the No 7.

If I had to rank these three in playing ability, it would be Burger first, Kolisi second and Pienaar third.

So if I had to make a straight rugby choice it would be Burger but then you have to ask about the powerful leadership abilities of the other two.

Well maybe the captain of the Ultimate Bok World Cup team would be John Smit, and then that would free one up to pick Burger.

In fact, this is the route I am going to go. I am going to pick the best player and worry about the captaincy later!

Mike’s choice: Schalk Burger

OVERALL WINNER

Schalk Burger wins the battle of the hard men!

Ultimate Springbok World Cup Final XV (so far): 15 Percy Montgomery, 14 Cheslin Kolbe, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Hennie le Roux. 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Handre Pollard, 9 Joost van der Westhuizen, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 6 Schalk Burger …

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Ahmaud Arbery’s runs set him free from the blue-collar coastal city of Brunswick, where 56% of its 16,000 residents are black and more than a third of the population lives in poverty.
In high school, Arbery was so fast coaches had him slow down during practices. Now 25, his athletic gait delivered him beyond the arbitrary borders of his community. Wanda Cooper, Arbery’s mother, may have occasionally worried about him but never about his running.

On February 23, the young black jogger was passing through the predominantly white Satilla Shores section on the other side of four-lane US Route 17. Just miles from where Arbery lived with his mother, the quiet waterfront neighborhood is speckled with ranch houses tucked between oak-shaded lawns and backyard boat slips.

His final run ended there.

Family of Ahmaud Arbery embrace outside courthouse during a protest of his shooting death.

Arbery stopped in front of a still-unfinished home. He went inside briefly before resuming his run. A former police officer and his son — both residents on the street — had become preoccupied with young men caught on security cameras trespassing on the site. Some of the video was posted on the neighborhood’s Facebook page.

Armed with a shotgun and a handgun, father and son later followed Arbery in their truck. One of them shot him to death during a confrontation. Arbery’s family called it a modern-day lynching.

The killing sparked outrage across a nation fixated on a coronavirus pandemic that has claimed nearly 100,000 American lives. Outcry over the little-known case came only after a disturbing video of the shooting emerged online on May 5.
What we know about Ahmaud Arbery's killing
“Jogging while black” became the latest example of the many perils visited on African Americans. It’s a growing list long familiar to them — Driving while black. BBQing while black. Napping while black. Shopping while black. Waiting while black. Details of Arbery’s tragic death spread rapidly as black communities reeled from disproportionate representation among the Covid-19 dead. Their financial well-being has also been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.

“He was a bright light in a world of darkness,” Arbery’s best friend, Akeem Baker, said.

Video of the shooting circulated widely as Georgia eased its coronavirus stay-at-home order. Demonstrators descended on the quiet streets of Satilla Shores and other parts of the state.

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More than two months would pass before Gregory McMichael, 64, a former Glynn County cop and district attorney investigator, and his 34-year-old son, Travis McMichael, were arrested and charged with aggravated assault and murder. The elder McMichael told police Travis McMichael fired after Arbery attacked him.

A neighbor who recorded the video of the fatal shooting from inside his vehicle was arrested Thursday and charged with felony murder and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment. William “Roddie” Bryan Jr., who has insisted he was merely a witness, used his vehicle to try to “confine and detain” Arbery multiple times in the minutes before the killing, according to his arrest warrant.
Man who recorded Ahmaud Arbery's killing tried to 'confine and detain' him with his vehicle, warrant says

The three men have not entered pleas though their attorneys maintain they’re innocent.

Bryan would have been the state’s “star witness,” in the words of his attorney, Kevin Gough, who said his client was no vigilante and had no contact with the McMichaels before the shooting.

Bryan, before his arrest, said he prays for the Arbery family every night.

“I hope that it, in the end, brings justice to the family and peace to the family,” he said of the video that landed him behind bars.

CNN’s attempts to reach Gregory and Travis McMichael were unsuccessful. But attorneys for the men said the public has rushed to judgment. The full story, they insisted, has yet to be revealed.
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Gregory McMichael would tell investigators Arbery resembled a man behind what he described as a string of neighborhood break-ins.

On February 11, the younger McMichael had a brief encounter with an unidentified African American man who entered the house under construction.

The home’s owner, Larry English, lives two hours away.

A neighbor keeping an eye on the property texted English that night: Travis McMichael had encountered someone on the property. Elizabeth Graddy, English’s attorney, said her client did not know if Arbery was that person.

“The police showed up and we all searched for a good while,” the neighbor wrote. “I think he got spooked and ran after Travis confronted him.”

“Let me know if he shows up or they find him. I appreciate you letting me know,” English wrote back.

That same night a man who identified himself as Travis McMichael called 911. He told the dispatcher he’d “caught a guy running into a house being built. Two houses down from me. When I turned around, he took off running into the house.”

Larry English, right, owns the property where Arbery was seen on video before the fatal encounter.

The alleged intruder at one point reached into his pocket. Travis McMichael told the dispatcher he believed the man might be armed. The neighborhood, he said, had seen a rash of burglaries and break-ins.

In truth, only one burglary in Satilla Shores had been reported to the Glynn County Police Department in the more than seven weeks before Arbery’s killing: On New Year’s Day, Travis McMichael’s 9mm pistol was stolen from his unlocked truck outside his family’s home.

Motion-sensor cameras captured the alleged intruder the February night the younger McMichael called 911. English later said he could not identify the man on the surveillance video, which was posted on the neighborhood’s Facebook page. He did not call police.

The cameras on his property caught a handful of people who wandered in or by over the weeks and months as it sat unfinished.

The footage, released by English through his attorney, shows people there on various dates between October 25 and February 23.

Arbery was at the unfinished home just before his death

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Arbery’s family and their lawyer said only the February 23 video showed him entering the house shortly before he was killed.

Wearing tan shorts and a white t-shirt, the man in the surveillance video looked around at piles of construction material. The video did not show him touching anything.

When asked about the other videos, S. Lee Merritt, attorney for the Arbery family, said he wasn’t going to continue asking the family about people in surveillance videos.

Another neighborhood resident also saw someone at the unfinished house that day. The neighbor would make one of two 911 calls before Arbery was killed.

“There’s a guy in the house right now,” the caller told the dispatcher. “It’s a house under construction.”

“And you said someone’s breaking into it right now?” the dispatcher asked.

“No, it’s all open. It’s under construction… And there he goes right now.”

“OK, what is he doing?”

“He is running down the street.”

“That’s fine. I will get police out there. I just need to know what he was doing wrong. Was he just on the premises and not supposed to be?”

‘Travis, the guy is running down the street. Let’s go!’

Father and son, Gregory and Travis McMichael

Arbery had arrived at the unfinished home in the the middle-class community nearly 80 miles south of Savannah just after 1 p.m. Minutes later, he was running again.

Gregory McMichael was standing in his front yard. He would later tell police he saw a man he called a suspect in neighborhood break-ins — who, he said, was caught on surveillance video — “hauling ass” down the street.

McMichael ran inside his house.

“Travis, the guy is running down the street,” he told his son. “Let’s go!”

The eldest McMichael grabbed his .357 Magnum from his bedroom. His son grabbed his shotgun. The former cop would tell police they didn’t know whether the man was armed. Father and son jumped in the pickup.

At one point, the police report said, the McMichaels “attempted to cut off” the man, who turned around and ran in the opposite direction. Gregory McMichael told police a man named “Roddie” tried unsuccessfully to “block” the runner off.

The shooting was captured on a 36-second cellphone video posted online by a local radio station. It would reignite a national conversation about the killings of unarmed black men.

The footage was taken from inside a vehicle by Bryan, a mechanic who had been doing yard work at home moments earlier. “Minding his own business,” said his attorney, Gough. When Bryan saw an unfamiliar man being followed by a pickup he recognized as his neighbor’s pickup, he headed out in his vehicle.
William "Roddie" Bryan Jr.

Gough said his client was not participating with the McMichaels in the pursuit.

In Bryan’s video Arbery is seen running toward the white pickup, which had stopped in the right lane. He veers from side to side and runs around the front of the truck to the driver’s side. A man stands next to the open driver’s-side door. Another looks down from the bed of the pickup.

Gregory McMichael, in the bed of the truck, was on the phone with 911.

“I’m out here at Satilla Shores,” he told the dispatcher. “There’s a black male running down the street.”

“Where at Satilla Shores?” the dispatcher asked.

“I don’t know what street we’re on.”

The eldest McMichael sounded out of breath.

“Stop right there! … Travis!” he shouted before the call went silent.

Three gunshots ring out

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In the video Arbery disappears briefly from view after going around the front of the truck.

The man at the side of the truck scuffles with Arbery, who grabs at the barrel of the shotgun.

Gregory McMichael later told police the man “began to violently attack Travis.” In the video, as the men grapple with the shotgun, Arbery appears to throw a punch at Travis McMichael’s head.

Three gunshots rang out in the video. Blood appears on Arbery’s t-shirt below the left ribcage.

Arbery took a few unsteady steps before falling to the ground face first.

The elder McMichael told police he rolled the man over to see if he had a weapon.

A Glynn County coroner at the scene pronounced the time of death as 1:46 p.m. An autopsy showed Arbery was shot three times, including twice in the chest.

The McMichaels were not immediately charged.

Prosecutor calls the shooting ‘perfectly legal’

Ahmaud Arbery falls after being fatally shot in Satilla Shores on February 23.

The case stalled for weeks as two district attorneys recused themselves, including one who said the actions of the McMichaels were “perfectly legal.”

Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson recused herself the day after the killing. She noted Gregory’s McMichael’s 20 years as an investigator in her office. She denied allegations by local officials that she told police not to make an arrest.

Then a second prosecutor, Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney George Barnhill, recused himself. His son was a prosecutor in the Brunswick Judicial Circuit DA’s office and once worked with Gregory McMichael in a prior prosecution of Arbery. He revealed the potential conflict in a letter to state Attorney General Chris Carr’s office on April 7.

Demonstrators protest Arbery's shooting death outside the courthouse.

In a separate letter to police, Barnhill defended the actions of the McMichaels. He wrote that he believed the men werewithin their rights to execute a citizen’s arrest of Arbery.

The prosecutor said Travis McMichael would have been allowed to use “deadly force” to protect himself as he and Arbery struggled over the shotgun.

The McMichaels and Bryan, who was listed as a witness in the police report, engaged in ‘hot pursuit’ and had “solid first-hand probable cause,” as civilians, to detain Arbery, the prosecutor wrote.

“It appears their intent was to stop and hold this criminal suspect until law enforcement arrived. Under Georgia law, this is perfectly legal,” Barnhill wrote. He cited Civil War era state law that allows civilians to arrest someone if they have immediate knowledge of an offense or if a perpetrator is trying to flee after committing a felony.
Ahmaud Arbery with his mother, Wanda Cooper.

Barnhill questioned whether Arbery might’ve been responsible for the gunshots by pulling on the shotgun. He concluded Travis McMichael was “allowed to use deadly force to protect himself.”

“Arbery’s mental health records and prior convictions help explain his apparent aggressive nature and his possible thought pattern to attack an armed man,” Barnhill wrote, without elaborating.

Carr has requested that the US Department of Justice conduct an investigation into the handling of the Arbery case. The request includes an investigation of the “communications and discussions” between the first two district attorneys assigned to the case.

Cobb County District Attorney Joyette Holmes is now handling the prosecution after Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney Tom Durden concluded his office was too small to handle a case of that size and magnitude.

Gregory and Travis McMichael arrested on eve of Arbery’s 26th birthday

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IT should really be remembered as one of Danny McGrain’s finest hours, not Scottish football’s darkest days.

The Celtic full-back, among the best players this country, never mind the Parkhead club, has ever produced, enjoyed many special moments and famous victories during his long and celebrated career.

The 1980 Scottish Cup final was up there with any of them; he set up the winning and only goal in extra-time, picked up the sponsor’s Man of the Match award at the end of 120 energy-sapping minutes and then lifted the famous trophy aloft as captain.

Alas, the riot that broke out on the pitch after the final whistle kind of overshadowed his outstanding personal display and the result.

“This is like a scene out of Apocalypse Now,” said Archie MacPherson famously in his BBC commentary as Celtic and Rangers fans clashed and mounted police charged them in a desperate bid to restore order.

It had certainly been The Longest Day for McGrain and his team mates before that.

“It was an Old Firm derby, a cup final and the last game of the season so it was a tense occasion,” said McGrain as he looked back on the match, which took place 40 years ago today, earlier on this week.

“It was scorching hot as well. I remember it being a torrid game, a real end-to-end affair. It was quite scrappy if you ask me. I wouldn’t say it was a classic. But it ended up being fantastic for us because we won it.”

The fatigue that Billy McNeill’s men were feeling as the edgy encounter wore on didn’t prevent them from taking the lead after Davie Provan had swung a corner kick into the opposition penalty area in the 108th minute.

“When the cross came over I thought: ‘We need to get this ball out the park’,” said McGrain. “I was tired and the whole team was tired. It was such a hot day. We had everybody up for the corner kick so we could score from it and win the game from there. But I thought: ‘If I lose the ball here the next player behind me is big Peter (goalkeeper Latchford)’.

“It was a comical corner kick. It broke to me outside the box. My first instinct was to get the ball out the park, to waste time. I miskicked it. George (McCluskey) stuck his foot out and it went in. A typical George McCluskey goal! I think Peter McCloy (the Rangers keeper) must have been too busy chuckling at my effort to save it!”

The shameful events that unfolded after referee George Smith brought an end to proceedings were no laughing matter.

“It was a great moment to be presented with the trophy,” said McGrain. “We had just beaten our greatest rivals after extra-time, our side of Glasgow was going mental. We were looking forward to going out onto the park to celebrate with our fans. I looked out and saw a few people on the park. I thought: ‘Well, I suppose that’s allowed in the circumstances’. But all of a sudden there were 200, 300, there.

“When we went down to the stairs to the pitch side we were told we couldn’t go out on the park to do the lap of honour. We didn’t know what was happening. A policemen came over and said: ‘It’s a battle out there’. It was the right decision. There were too many arms and legs flying about. It wouldn’t have been safe.

“When we came out of the ground there was a lot of police running about chasing people. But we got on the bus with the cup, not giving two hoots about anything. We were in our own world. We weren’t really aware of quite how bad it was. By the time we got back to Celtic Park, though, we had heard on the radio what had happened, how many people had been arrested.”

It was an unfortunate way for Bobby Lennox to bow out at Celtic. The Lisbon Lion, who had come on for Johnny Doyle in the second-half, picked up his 26th winner’s medal that afternoon. But the legendary striker was denied the opportunity to say a farewell to the fans and receive their appreciation for all of his heroics over the previous 17 years. McGrain felt for his friend.

“Bobby is the best guy I have ever met in football,” he said. “He is a nicest man you will ever come across. I played with him from the minute I broke into the team until he left. He was such a great professional. He loved the game.

“He always had a smile on his face Bobby, good, bad or indifferent. He had a great sense of humour. It was a shame for him I suppose. But at the end of the day he got the medal and he got the bonus. I am sure he was quite happy with that.”

McGrain was pleased for McNeill. The European Cup-winning skipper had succeeded Jock Stein two years earlier and lifted the Premier Division title at the end of his debut season in the dugout at Parkhead with a famous final day win over Rangers. But that was his first Scottish Cup triumph as a coach. “It was great for Billy to have done that as a player and then as a manager,” he said.

The riot, the worst in Scottish football in 70 years, led to 210 fans being arrested and 100 people suffering injuries, many of them serious. It also resulted in alcohol being banned from Scottish football grounds, an embargo that remains in place four decades later.

It hasn’t stopped the Celtic players of today growing accustomed to the taste of champagne in the last few years.

McGrain has sympathy for Scott Brown, Callum McGregor and Odsonne Edouard just now. They have been denied the chance to win a record-equalling ninth consecutive Scottish title and complete a fourth straight domestic treble by the coronavirus pandemic and football shutdown.

Neil Lennon’s charges had been due to take on Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup semi-final when the game was suspended in March and could potentially have been taking part in the final yesterday.

“The chance has been taking away from them,” he said. “I am sure it will get finished later in the year when football starts up again. But going to Hampden in May to play in the Scottish Cup final is a great tradition and they have been denied that. Still, they have got to give them the Premiership. I think they deserve it.”

McGrain turned 70 at the start of this month and his birthday celebrations were curtailed somewhat by the Covid-19 outbreak and social distancing restrictions.

However, the Celtic great, a world-class footballer who overcame diabetes and a fractured jaw during his playing days and has made a full recovery from the minor heart attack he suffered six years ago, is meeting the challenge head on.

“It is hard,” he said. “It is a horrible situation. But you have just got to deal with it as best you can. I am okay. I still get out for walks, nothing too strenuous.”

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FORMER AFL player Shannon Grant has faced court accused of assault, smashing a laptop and throwing a phone.

Grant’s lawyer has described the case as “personal and private”, saying it could hurt his reputation and family.

The North Melbourne premiership player was arrested at his Highett home last week on 18 charges including assault, intentionally causing injury and criminal damage.

Grant, 40, allegedly committed assaults on three separate occasions in 2017.

It’s also alleged he stomped on a victim’s foot, caused injury by throwing a mobile phone, and damaged a laptop.

Grant, who won the 1999 Norm Smith medal with the Kangaroos, faced Moorabbin Magistrates Court on Wednesday for a brief hearing.

“Mr Grant is obviously concerned about the fact that matters of a personal and private nature relating to him are now a matter of public and media concern,” defence lawyer Nicole Spicer said outside court.

“He will where appropriate be defending the charges and will be addressing them in a full and appropriate manner.”

Ms Spicer said the proceedings were difficult for Grant but he was mostly worried about his family’s welfare.

“He is mainly concerned about his family and his capacity to protect his family,” she told reporters.

“He is obtaining support from friends and community members and he’s dealing with the matters seriously.”

Grant’s arrest came two days after his shock resignation from a coaching role with amateur club St Kevin’s Old Boys.

Prosecutors told the court they were still gathering witness statements in the case.

The matters were adjourned for a contest mention on March 23 as investigations continue.

Grant played 301 AFL games, including 243 for North Melbourne, and won the club’s best and fairest award in 2001.

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