AS VARIOUS factions within the English game traded insults over accusations of players being forced to sign reduced contracts, a plaintive sound could barely be heard over the wires from South Africa.
What Elton Jantjies had to say on the subject will have fallen on stony ground. “I don’t play rugby for money,’’ the Springbok World Cup winner said from suitably high moral ground some 6,000 feet up in Johannesburg. “I play it for the right reasons and money is definitely not one of them.’’
Those with a sense of history will find his comments more tha...