Pieter de Villiers: 'Car park? I don't have a car!'It might not be a death threat or a 'play him or you're fired' tactic a la Luke Watson, but the latest soap opera from South African rugby is like something out of Sunset Beach.
Think Max Clifford's sense of timing coupled with sexual revelations that even Bill Clinton wouldn't struggle denying and you're not even close.
Pieter de Villers had a death warrant as soon as he became Springbok coach after promising transformation and new brands of rugby never seen before in the Rainbow Nation.
But it seems the Socrates of the Springboks has been found out prematurely (no pun intended), embellishing in a bit of left-field rucking and mauling in an Eastern Cape car park, if allegations are true.
Blackmail? Perhaps? But Chinese whispers has reached us suggesting racist forces from over the rainbow are ready with the chopping board and carving knife.
If Gossip Girl's text service is reliable, then the scrum-half of 'team anti-de Villiers' is none other than SA Rugby's Communications Manager, Chris Hewitt, who has been suspended with full pay (or given leave and taking the rap for it all now Watson's dad, Cheeky Watson, and Mike Stofile are back-tracking with rockets tied to their arses).
So sex tape or not, Paris Hilton or Pamela Anderson, this nasty PR plot is as vicious since Captain Hook went after Peter Pan.
Good always triumphs over evil? Not in South Africa...