RUGBY AND ART

The Louisville Rugby Club hit the news a while back when its coach, Eric Raney, criticised its foreign-born players in an article for a rugby magazine in the USA. Raney criticised the South African players for "shacking up with some lonely and a tad overweight American girls". Shortly afterwards, Emil Walton, born in Namibia and now a resident of Louisville, Kentucky, started coaching the team. Emil was born in Namibia and spent 23 years living in South Africa. He is married to an American, Nicole, and his mother lives in Boksburg. Emil left for the USA in 2004 with his friend, Brentley Combrinck. They wanted to earn dollars before going on to play club rugby in Wales. Emil works as a self-taught mixed media artist. One of the LRC's stars is South African Shaun Grobler from Potchefstroom.