IT’S a bit unfair how Nick Mallett’s name has been attached to the sex scandal that has rocked a major private school in the Cape, namely Bishops.
It’s a script that reads a little like a Wilbur Smith novel starring Sean Courtney.
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Usually it’s a male teacher involved with a female pupil. Not this time.
The teacher involved is the rugby pundit’s niece, aged 30, who has resigned over the alleged affair with a matric boy.
The story is everywhere so I won’t go into all the supposed details.
Mallett has weathered some major media controversy in his time.
He dropped Bok captain Gary Teichmann not long before the 1999 Rugby World Cup, a decision for which some have still not forgiven him.
Later he lost his job over ‘Ticketgate’, when it was claimed he said ticket prices were too high.
In recent times he and his fellow analyst Naas Botha were accused of various things by co-analyst Ashwin Willemse, who sensationally walked off the SuperSport set.
He hasn’t been back, but Naas and Nick have, albeit not together.
Love him or hate him, Nick knows his rugby and fans will be listening eagerly to what he has to say about the Springboks and the Bothersome Blossoms (Japan) ahead of this Sunday’s colossal clash.
Typhoon Hagabis seems to have raged past Japan and all rugby is back on track.
As a fan, I feel slightly robbed at not watching some of the big games, like ‘Le Crunch’ between England and France.
I can’t quite understand how, in a country like Japan, with some of the best public transport, these matches couldn’t have been played somewhere else.
But then when you read that people have died and been badly injured, you realise it’s just a game after all.
There are much more important things in life to be worrying about, or to focus on.
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