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Brian Mujati cited for push on referee Nigel Owens
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/St4yD_UvHGI/AAAAAAAADfc/hwJ-jaIPECQ/s1600-h/mujati-push-owens.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/St4yD_UvHGI/AAAAAAAADfc/hwJ-jaIPECQ/s400/mujati-push-owens.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394804447755836514" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Northampton Saints prop Brian Mujati has been cited following an alleged push on referee Nigel Owens during the Heineken Cup round 2 match against Perpignan on the weekend. /spanbr /br /Mujati, who is from Zimbabwe but has played for the Springboks, allegedly pushed Owens in the back and now faces a possibly 6 months to life ban.br /br /He will face an independent disciplinary hearing after Irish citing officer Murray Whyte deemed the offence worthy of further investigation, charging him with "an act contrary to good sportsmanship".br /br /He is set to appear in Dublin on Thursday after his push contravened Law 10.4 (l) - Acts contrary to good sportsmanship.br /br /Owens was furious, as seen in this clip, but we're unsure of the extent of the maliciousness in the push, as it's not visible on camera. Saints were apparently shocked by the citing, but somebody saw something we didn't.br /br /Once again, this clip doesn't show the actual push unfortunately, but if any other camera angles surface during the week, we'll be sure to show it.br /br /Percy Montgomery and Neil Back have both been in trouble for similar offences in the past. Have you ever heard of or seen a ref being physically harmed during a match, deliberately?br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BtK65DQsRmoamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BtK65DQsRmoamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;":: Related Posts ::/spanbr /a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2008/01/lifeimi-mafi-hates-it-when-referees-get.html"Lifeimi Mafi hates it when referees get in his way/a/spanbr //divspan style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time:/span 0:42/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-3264103902808587484?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com'//divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=jj1jNnSLZfc:zvBiX2fuIEk:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/jj1jNnSLZfc" height="1" width="1"/ More...
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