Is Rassie Erasmus a 12-year-old boy?
The Upshot loves nothing more than pettiness, so congratulations to South Africa boss Rassie Erasmus for showing us how it’s done.
Still reeling from his side’s defeat on Saturday, the World Cup winner used a fake Twitter account to criticise the Lions and the referees from Saturday’s game.
Rassie retweeted a post from an account called Jaco Johan which pointed out several “questionable calls” from the officials, as well as praising the Springbok gaffer’s “respect in defeat”.
Here’s the evidence:
- The account had 0 followers and had never tweeted before he retweeted it.
- It exclusively posts well-edited footage of controversial incidents where Erasmus feels hard done by.
- It uses a yellow circle to highlight foul play, just as he does on his own account.
- The account has liked 15 tweets and they are all from sides he has coached.
- Rassie‘s real first name is Johan.
The best part is him pretending to be magnanimous when writing under his real name: “This is rugby. Sometimes calls go for you and sometimes they don’t.”
And when they don’t, create a sock puppet Twitter account and complain about it.
(Credit to Squidge Rugby for cracking this case wide open.)
