Sri Lanka Rugby sent to sin-bin, over SLRFU foul-play

AS someone who played full back — the last line of defence, the cool head under pressure, I was the guy who literally cleans up everyone else’s mess — I’ve seen chaos on a rugby pitch.

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But nothing, and I mean nothing, compares to the acrobatic circus currently taking place inside the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU). My brothers, who played fly half and scrum half — brains of the backline — would call it what it is: a match with no game plan, no discipline, and no referee.

If rugby is a gentleman’s game played by hooligans, then SLRFU politics is a hooligan’s game played by bureaucrats in blazers two sizes too big for their credibility.