South African rugby fans appear to have taken their team's exit in the RWC quarter final last week very badly indeed, blaming referee Bryce Lawrence for costing them the game.
And, despite plenty of evidence that Lawrence is merely an incompetent fool as opposed to a biased cheat, the head the University of Cape Town's Sports Science Department, Tim Noakes, has now waded into the debate, effectively accusing Lawrence of match fixing.
"When science is manipulated to produce a predetermined outcome, it's called bent science," says Noakes, very scientifically.
"When the outcome of a sporting event is predetermined, we call it match fixing."
"There was something wrong with that game. It seems it was predetermined."
Sounds conclusive enough to me but, in an added twist, Noakes has called on the IRB to prove that South Africa's exit from the World Cup was not fixed and, by asking them to prove a negative, has ensured that his theory cannot be disproved.
Clever chaps, these scientists.
And, despite plenty of evidence that Lawrence is merely an incompetent fool as opposed to a biased cheat, the head the University of Cape Town's Sports Science Department, Tim Noakes, has now waded into the debate, effectively accusing Lawrence of match fixing.
"When science is manipulated to produce a predetermined outcome, it's called bent science," says Noakes, very scientifically.
"When the outcome of a sporting event is predetermined, we call it match fixing."
"There was something wrong with that game. It seems it was predetermined."
Sounds conclusive enough to me but, in an added twist, Noakes has called on the IRB to prove that South Africa's exit from the World Cup was not fixed and, by asking them to prove a negative, has ensured that his theory cannot be disproved.
Clever chaps, these scientists.
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