Cieran Healy is a thug...or at least that's what the papers would be saying if he were a footballer. Don't get me wrong, I like Rugby, enjoyed playing it at School ( would have preferred Football but had no choice) but the hypocrisy of the Sports writers knows no bounds when it comes to comparing the two. They are only too keen to contrast the positives of RU with the negatives of Football but if a Premier league player had done what Healy did he would have been branded for life as a hooligan and vilified by the media.
Today there's scarcely a mention of it and the moronic Keith Wood , a former captain of Ireland, was actually trying to minimise its seriousness on Saturday. Rugby has many things about it to admire; trying to break someone's ankle, then repeatedly swinging the forearm against defenceless opponents isn't among them.