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Doh! Now Abendanon hits back at Goode

by
The Rugby Paper Team
21 January 2018

DAVID BARNES

FRENCH COLUMN
Clermont star Nick Abendanon has poked a bit of gentle fun at the embarrassing plight of his English compatriot Andy Goode.
TV commentator Goode, once a fine fly-half with Leicester, said on Twitter that Toulon centre Mathieu Bastareaud deserved a very long ban for issuing a homophobic insult.
That was before, to his great discomfort, remarks he had made, himself, in previous years surfaced with homosexual terminology.
Goode felt the need to say: “In the past few days, personal comments I made on Twitter seven years ago have been brought to my attention.
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