#1. Joe Marler
The popular bearded and mohicanned prop bucked the boring interview trend in spectacular fashion by previewing Harlequins’ next Champions Cup outing through the lens of a drawn-out horse metaphor that delighted the internet, where it was lauded as the best sporting interview of all time.
“I wasn’t hurting as much as the lads who were out there but I definitely felt it and I know how hard the boys have taken that,” he began. “They will be disappointed with the account that we put out but we have got another week to get back on the horse.”
So far, so sporting cliche. But then things took a turn for the bizarre.
“And take that horse to the water, and you can ask that horse, you can say, ‘Hey, horsey, do you want to have a drink or do you want to swim’,” he said. “It’s up to that horse to then realise what he wants to do in his life. That horse, at the moment, wants to go out on Saturday, he wants to clippity-clop all the way to The Stoop and he wants to say hello to those fans.”
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