Some rugby players are good. Some rugby players are bad. Some rugby players, though, can be both good and bad.
With Owen Farrell returning to the England XV this weekend, who are rugbyl’s greatest “pantomime villains” in world rugby.
Though it’s a relatively subjective term when applied to rugby players, in this context, we use it to identify big names who, despite their undoubted quality, have earned a reputation—rightly or wrongly—as something of a villain.
Read on to find out which players fit the bill—if you dare.
#5. Dan Biggar (Wales)
Biggar is the epitome of players you hate until they are on your team.
The way the fly-half continues to moan to referees vociferously has seemingly only got worse throughout his career.
It got so bad that popular online personality and diehard Scotland fan Glove39 made a video called ‘birdman’ mocking the way in which he always raises his arms in frustration to officials.