Noting a little off-topic humour I thought I would add my wee bit....
An interesting story...do not know the truth of it all !

> Subject: Rugby World Cup...VG True Story
 >
 > On Sunday 14th March this year, Spain played Romania
 > at home in the first of
 > the IRB Rugby World Cup European Zone preliminaries.
 > The other team  in the
 > group is Portugal. The idea is that the 3 teams play
 > each
 > other  to see who goes into the seed pool (decided
 > after this years World
 > Cup) for the next world cup. They play home and away
 > so 6 games in all.
 >
 > Halfway through the first half the Spanish prop
 > forward Iganez was sent
 > off for stamping on the Romanian fly half Corin
 > Abrazu. The Romanian was
 > taken off the field for treatment to two wounds, a
 > head wound and a leg
 > wound. After the physio had tried to staunch the flow
 > of blood to the head
 > wound, (and failed) he called for an ambulance to get
 > Abrazu into hospital.
 > At the hospital, a broken knife blade was removed from
 >  Abrazu's leg. He
 > was allowed home from hospital at flew home a few days
 >  later.
 >
 > Iganez was arrested for attempted murder by the
 > Spanish Police in Pamplona.
 > Iganez has continually denied any wrong doing (and
 > video evidence supports
 > this).
 >
 > Last week Abrazu withdrew from the Rumanian team to
 > play Portugal,
 > complaining of headaches. It was thought he had banged
 >  his head in a club
 > match the previous weekend. He collapsed at his home,
 > and was rushed to
 > hospital. X-Rays showed a .22 calibre bullet lodged in
 >  his brain.
 >
 > The entrance wound had been stitched by a Spanish
 > doctor in the belief that
 > it had been caused by a boot stud.
 >
 > Iganez was then questioned by Spanish police about the
 >  bullet....  The
 > truth
 > is always so much more surreal. Apparently, Abrazu had
 >   received death
 > threats before the Spanish game via post (the letter
 > was sent from Cadiz).
 > He laughed them off until fifteen minutes into the
 > game he felt what he
 > thought was a bee sting on the back of his head. He
 > felt the wound and
 > found that he was bleeding.
 >
 > Not knowing what had happened,he  continued until four
 >  minutes later when
 > the incident with Iganez occurred.
 >
 > Iganez plays for Bilbao in the Basque country. He had
 > received a letter
 > before the match saying that unless he helped with the
 >  murder of Abrazu,
 > his family would be murdered. He was told that someone
 >  on the pitch would
 > kill the Romanian. All he had to do was to "rough up"
 > the Romanian to allow
 > a doctor on to the pitch.
 >
 > This is what he was attempting to do when he was
 > called aside by the ref.
 > Only, he had done nothing up to that point.
 >
 > Spanish authorities, investigating the incidents found
 >  that:
 > 1. Abrazu was targeted because he had been "seeing"
 > Inja Felipe de
 > Compostilla
 >    (the ETA bosses daughter (ETA being the Basque
 > extremists), the year
 > before
 >    while he played for Santander in Spain. She was up
 > the duff.
 >
 > 2. The knife wound was administered by a stretcher
 > assistant, the knife
 >    used is an ETA speciality called a "Juanez", where
 > the blade is intended
 > to
 >    break inside the wound.
 >
 > 3. The bullet was fired from the crowd by a hired
 > assassin ... hired by
 >    Inja Felipe de Campostilla because she was up the
 > duff....
 >
 > Complicated or what....
 >
 > All of the suspects have now been rounded up. Spanish
 > Authorities also
 > want to extradite Abrazu, since the young "lady" in
 > question (Inja Felipe
 > de
 > Compostilla) is just 14 years old...
 >
 >



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