With Brendan Venter set to return to Saracens as director of rugby, watch the legendary interview he gave after Saracens’ European Cup loss to Racing 92 in 2010.
Venter’s comments came weeks after he had been fined for complaining about referee Christophe Berdos following a loss to Irish side Leinster.
“We were driving to Gloucester on the bus and they had the movie ‘Mike Bassett: England Manager’ on,” Venter told The Telegraph. “It’s typical English humour and there was an interview with this really stupid coach. All he did was agree with the interviewer: ‘Yeah, really good, really good. Yeah, really poor, really poor’. I said: ‘That’s me! That’s my next interview. I’m going to show passive resistance’.
“There’s another brilliant scene where a player called Ramirez scores three goals against them and someone from the English team says: ‘Three cheers for Ramirez’. So, when the interviewer said to me that [Racing 92 wing] Sireli Bobo was really good I said: ‘Sireli Bobo, really good. Three cheers for Sireli Bobo’.
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“My mother actually thought I’d been smoking something or that the stress had gotten to me. No not at all, it’s just a game. [Saracens CEO] Edward [Griffiths] was holding his head in the background. It was a bit of fun.”
Throwing it back to the greatest interview in rugby history.
Three cheers for Sireli Bobo! https://t.co/yFykD32LPR pic.twitter.com/SYT5GXcRGh
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