Shortly after the trophy World Cup trophy was presented to Richie McCaw at Twickenham, Sonny Bill Williams was pictured performing a presentation of his own.
It was an informal one to a young supporter. Williams placed his World Cup winner's medal around the neck of Charlie Lines. The fan's delight was palpable (some more pictures of Williams and Charlie here).
In the post-match press conference, the 30-year-old divulged his reason for doing so.
On his lap of honour, the centre noticed young Charlie getting 'smoked' by a security guard for running onto the pitch (footage of the incident has since emerged). Williams - with abundantly more empathy than the security guard - felt sorry for the All Blacks fan.
I was walking around doing a lap of honour with the boys and a young fella came running out and he got smoked by the security guard, like full on tackled him. I felt sorry for the little fella.
He would have been eight or seven, I kind of felt sorry for him. It will be a night that he remembers hopefully.
That'll be just the one World Cup medal in Sonny's cabinet so.
via Stuff.co.nz
Picture credit: Stephen McCarthy / SPORTSFILE
