Joe Marler is an oft misunderstood player. Quite what he’s trying to get across in this prematch interview I don’t know. “Taking the horse to the water, and asking it to drink or swim.” is a mixed metaphor if ever I heard one.
Come back Eric Cantona all is forgiven, we have forgotten about the seagulls remark, honest.
It appears the Welsh prop called him a
”posh English c?nt !”. Some would consider that mitigating circumstances. While I could well imagine Joe Marler coming out with some racist Irish comment in my presence. Not convinced I’d voice my objections too loudly at the bar in the Stoop. Now if he made the same comment at a bar in Limerick of a Friday night, I might well pull him up over if. The odds would be less in his favour. Although to be fair, the bouncers would probaly step in to save me, and kick me out, and apologize to Mr Marler for my drunkenness.
I had heard the Talbot House story before, but your post made me google it once more.
(To figure out what “Dim as a Toc aiche lamp” meant.)