Joe Leogue pointed this out yesterday and it does deserve highlighting. Mattie has joined Shane Horgan and that guy from the Six One who believes there would have been utter bedlam had say organizers of an international soccer match between France and Ireland been cancelled two minutes before kick-off. Rugby blokes, though, they're a higher breed. They just shrug it off, check their property profolio on their smartphone and have a pint with their mates.
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Here's Mattie's specific claim in the Irish Times yesterday:
People are even writing letters about it.
