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Thu 07 Jul 2009Rowntree rows in as ill feeling lingers
THE ILL feeling between the Lions and Springbok camps showed no signs of abating yesterday. Indeed the bad blood generated by Schalk Burger’s gouging of Luke Fitzgerald and the controversial comments of the Boks’ head coach Pieter de Villiers, were if anything compounded.
In addition to sharply conflicting claims as to whether the respective head coaches did or didn’t meet afterwards, there was a counter claim by South African replacement centre Jacque Fourie that he was gouged by an unnamed Lions’ player.
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