>>>The above outbursts of language we regularly heard when these guys came to learn rugby. And they were there voluntarily, and didn't even blink as the man poured it weekend after weekend for the whole summer!
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>>Rugby in the summer! ????
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>These were Dalmatians. In the summer, they should be serving tourists, or just have a siesta, but these guys chose this. Like I said, insane.
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>>They are traditionally a foul-mouthed bunch anyway, in the UK. Their post-match songs are obscene.
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>They were a great bunch in ex-Yu too. One of the few matches of any sort that I watched on TV was the finals of the Cup, between Pančevo and Split - which should have been played in Pančevo, but the guys wanted a trip to the coast so they agreed to play in Split. After the match, they were waiting for association president to hand the cup, but he was probably somewhere over a bottle of wine with the hosts, so it took several minutes of camera-on-mike, pans over the audience etc, then once when the mike was in the middle of the shot, a kid ran to it and spat on it. I heard a decent thud :). That was back in the days of real live unscripted TV.
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>>And rugby players are just about as insane as it's possible to get, in team sports, alongside ice hockey players (and I believe lacrosse is viscious)
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>Ah, the awful combination of vicious and viscous... that's tough!

Oops - I thought over the distinction as I wrote it - and STILL wrote viscious! :-)

Now, as you've got me on a linguistic nerve: "...didn't even blink as the man poured it weekend after weekend ..."

I think you meant "spouted it"