Club slap life ban on Lomu taunter.LLANELLI Scarlets The Llanelli Scarlets are a Welsh professional rugby union team based in south-west Wales. They play in the Magners League, as well as competing in the EDF Energy Cup and the Heineken Cup. yesterday handed a life ban to a supporter who verbally abused Cardiff winger Jonah Lomu Jonah Tali Lomu, MNZM (born May 12, 1975) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer who has played 73 times (63 caps) as an All Black after debuting in 1994. Lomu was born in Auckland, New Zealand of Tongan descent. He grew up in South Auckland and attended Wesley College, Pukekohe. . Simon Coddrington, who is also banned from all football grounds in Nottinghamshire, met Llanelli chief executive Stuart Gallagher. He was told he would not be welcome back at Stradey Park following his "irresponsible and unacceptably aggressive behaviour". During the televised game on January 2, Coddrington threw the ball away from Lomu and then appeared to verbally abuse the New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. winger. Gallagher said: "As well as insulting a great player, his behaviour was offensive to both clubs and the game of rugby." Llanelli issued a written apology to Cardiff. Gallagher added: "I have received hundreds of messages of support from fans asking us to take the harshest possible action against this man who, the supporters felt, had let them all down." |
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