The 'Bloodgate' Substitution - Tom Williams - Harlequins v. Leinster

[koop39]

lolololol, dean richards is my mates dad!

[YoUrInBaTcOuNtRyNoW6]

this guy is a dissapointment to rugby

[A1phawolf]

If a footballer did this you wouldn't hear the end of it. All people involved got off lightly here

[kota2375]

@A1phawolf, lighthly are you joking or what? the physio is suspended for life to exercise his profession. richards got suspended as well and so did tom williams. not long but still suspended.

[Marshallman0171]

Thats true he does wink

[sportstumpy]

hahaha, "who punched Tom Williams in the mouth, Tom Williams?"

[jellyfishquin23]

I'm really happy for Tom Williams to have come back from that, he's a great player and I'm sure he would never have done it if Dean Richards hasn't pressured him into it!

[OzzRondo]

0:35 - 0:38 I'm pretty sure he winked!

[ClaymoreDelson]

@OzzRondo he did.. wink ;)

[Thejackooooooooooooo]

it looks too dark to be blood in my opinion, but who was to judge back then when it was unheard of to do this, this is really quite unacceptable to do this in rugby

[videoreff]

This kind of cheating is unacceptable to any right-minded fan - no decent rugby fan wants to win this way.  Tom Williams regrets his actions - part of his punishment is that he'll be remembered for this.

Harlequins should have been kicked out of the cup. Bear in mind that Leinster went on to win the trophy - things might have been different if the drop-goal had gone over.

Genuine (& often serious) injuries are part of the game, along with most rugby supporters I detest any kind of faking.

[DKP4]

Harlequins got what they deserved. FUCK ALL!

[kamikaze90watermelon]

Should never have played evans. I was at that game and it was evident that he was about 20% fit. If evans wasn't even in the squad then there's no way this happens.

[MrNipsi]

who punched tom williams in the mouth? tom williams

[055697]

They shoulda kicked that faggot public schoolboy's ass and made him play on with nails in his boots. Then they shoulda kicked his ass some more.

[jetulik]

Wink Wink,,,and they still lost.....fucking retard Williams

[FatMucnher]

when is the wink?

[bananafruity104]

They cheated yet Leinster STILL beat them! Heineken Cup Champions 2009 and 2011!!

[Jarhead4848]

FUCKING SCUMS



[Cockel100]

cheating bastards

[PerennialKillJoy]

Unbelievable.

If they were going to cut his lip later anyway to hide the use of a blood capsule, he might as well have chewed it himself on the pitch :p

Then the moron winks and limps. Where'd he get his acting lessons from? Sly Stallone?

This has no place in the game.

[Ducksexbody]

Rugby cheats. What's new.

[quentdu03100]

@Ducksexbody shut-up

[Ducksexbody]

@quentdu03100 Rugby has no honor. You honorless Italian loving French swine.

[quentdu03100]

@Ducksexbody i am french i'm not understand

[Ducksexbody]

@quentdu03100 You cheese eating surrender monkey

[quentdu03100]

@Ducksexbody i don't understand english and i don't understand you

[5hadowflam3]

@Ducksexbody You seem to embody all the perfect qualities of a racist. Ignorance, believing one incident represents an entire sport, and, well, further ignorance at using racism as an insult. Congratulations. Try reading a book or meeting someone from a different place yeh?

[Ducksexbody]

@5hadowflam3 XENOPHOBIC not Racist. Get your discrimination right in intellectually inferior egg chasing fat toff.

[Raichu234]

Quins only did it once! Shut up!

[cmacneice96]

so they wouldn't of investigated it if he didn't wink?

[bl4ck0p]

How did they find out it was fake blood?

[IRAQI6TNT]

@bl4ck0p Believe it or not, it all started because of the wink at 2:58.

[xxxar0wxxx]

wow

[inalags]

all he had to do was ask, i would've been happy to smack him in the mouth...

[and551]

He should of stuck it up his arse and used it in the scrum

[Redrocket14]

limping wen u have a bloody mouth, doenst add up i guess ha

[yeaahben]

why did he wink!? :L

[OldRsPk]

2:37 anyone else hear a phone going off?

[OldRsPk]

he winked! at 2:21 wanking cheat.

[OldRsPk]

LOL@ The guy speakin at 3:01-3:08 i loled at his voice

[avril2]

RICHARDS SHOULD BE BANNED FOR LIFE.

Pre-meditated cheating.

Subsequent lying.

Getting the doctor to cut Williams.

Allowing the coerced player take the fall.

Lying to the enquiry.

WHAT MORE DOES IT TAKE?

Dean Richards has brought shame on the name of Rugby Union.

He is a disgrace.

[Kinlochbervie50]

i like how he has a mouth injury and limps off the field...

[5hadowflam3]

@Kinlochbervie50 Unnnleesss he injured his leg earlier on, or at the same time?

[davidthechode]

lets just think about it, yes its not exceptable and i am a quins fan, but this happens all the time. Just move on we lost the game anyways.

[workingclassbum]

Bloody disgrace, I can't blame Williams though he was just doing what his employers ordered him to do.

[dafyddg1984]

What I want to know is who the hell LIMPS off due to a BLOODY MOUTH?!?!?!

Joke acting lessons to go with joke-shop blood??

[Clarkie444]

gay welsh referee

[dafyddg1984]

@Clarkie444 what's your beef? he was spot-on with the laws of the game, it's not for him to make an assessment whether a blood capsule has been chewed. sodding homophobe!!

[nanabizz423]

wat was he thinkin

[Patchoi7]

tom williams......what a fuking prick...and what's with the wink..cock

[jdubb11112]

unkucky quins for getting caught, love the idea though very creative

[kaibishin]

all of that for nothing! its not worth risking so many carriers for that. they should have playe better and used actual skill to win the match. tom williams should be banned from rugby union

[jesussaysEdNorton]

@kaibishin Hon leinster!! Whoop! To be honest now it was a bit over the top! So mush blood! He should have used ketchup if he was going to over act!

[kebengel]

@kaibishin everyone does it mate, deano just decided he didnt want to have his players actually raked by their own teammates to engineer the sub like everyone else does. quins got caught, fined 250k and williams got a ban for 4 months. Its over, will never happen again, leave it at that.

[slaaavage]

@kebengel I'm sorry but this does not happen 'all the time', seems quins fans just want to live in denial.

[kebengel]

@slaaavage apology accepted

[cstrobel86]

@kebengel what do you mean everyone does it?. tell me when has it happened before on the rugby pitch? ive played rugby since i was 5. never heard of this happening before...

[TheMinims]

I only just realized that there is an arrow beween the E and X of Feddex

[ohargreaves]

lol they cheated but still lost?

[MrTraceyk289]

Watch out for the wink!!

[10stokesy]

HAHAHA He looks like such a cunt. typical jock fuckin prick. Gentlemans sport yeh?. Sad pathetic jock. Bet he is an absolute cock with no ability to communicate with ANYONE who isn't involved with rugby. HAHAH wanker.

[Queequegscoffin22]

an absolute disgrace to the sport...i understand in a professional environment individuals are under enormous pressure to perform and win but there must be a line

[Queequegscoffin22]

absolute disgrace to the sport....i know in a professional environment individuals are under pressure to win but there has to be a line

[PocariLight]

Can see him wink at 0:39

[AirdrieUnitedDaft]

lol at the refs accent

[mdbrfc]

see him wink 2:21 sorry

[mdbrfc]

see him wink 2:30

[sebsworld0]

From the BBC News website:

"Sadly for all parties of the game of rugby union Tom Williams was not bleeding from his mouth" - Michael Hayton for the GMC

"A doctor has admitted cutting the lip of Harlequins rugby player Tom Williams to enable the winger to pretend to be injured during a Heineken Cup match."

[geoffhudd]

its fake fecking blood

[tenseman08]

thats what what happens when u get a cut to your lip....you limp...this guy is a tool

[anyticketslads]

Conish64 must be taking the piss with his comment about harlequins and there supporters, from my experance they are a great bunch and a great club. so conish64 your talking out through ur holio and for you leinster fans you are more like soccer supporters

[conish64]

I love the look on leo's face at 1.38. As if to say "oh theyre bringing their kicker back on, no matter, we'l stuff them anyway". I cant believe Harlequins are still aloud to be a rugby club. Everything about Harlequins rugby is wrong. Theyre fans behaved appallingly that day in the stoop, no class. Theyre a shit club and theyl NEVER win a heineken cup.

[mutzigmorzine]

@conish64 I think thats spectacularly unfair. I'm a Saints fan, and all of my experience of Harlequins fans have been positive. They're a good side, with history. This incident was bad for the game, but I hope the club can get over it.

[beardedcollie39]

Are there any videos on youtube showing full highlights of this quarter-final?

[TheAntiblues]

look at that Ronan O'Donnell rat, Dean Richards would wipe the floor with you

[cacknacker1]

english....

[syiannakis]

notice how as he goes off he (very subtley) looks 2 the camera to his right and winks! (2:22)

[mizzhannah]

eejit. winking and all hahaha

[HuggyBear2k5]

@flyhalf28 He was given them and told to go down when he came into contact with a Leinster player. This was so Evans could come back on as a blood sub for Williams.

[avril2]

Dean Richards is disgraced and should never be allowed to be associated with the game again.

Not only did he orchestrate this travesty, but he was cowardly enough to let others take the blame!

Shame on you Richards.

[Musseduss]

It's interessting that 1:29 Frankie Boyle is screaming in the background... xD

[blingwood4]

how embaressing

[DamnArms12345]

Chris Malone would have got that drop goal

[hywel99]

same old english

[Raichu234]

everyone get over it and leave quins alone. They've had their punishment so just drop it and shutup!I was shocked that they did it but I'm not crying about it, so let it go u saddos and watch the beautiful game!

[joshuajn1]

well if u want proof here it is

u cant say that this isnt it

cos u can see him putting it in his mouth

u can see him taking it from his sock and u can see him winking

plus the leinster coach was not aloud to see the injury to prove that it was ligit

[johnnygannerss]

that was a nice ronaldo wink

[bbhs93]

this is a disgrace

[gossieuk]

didn't williams even have the common sense to at least ram his face into a ruck to at least give the impression that he may have actually sustained an injury

[GaryTss]

LEINSTER STILL WON :D Cheating wankers

[twiggy4107]

we could all see the wink at 2:58 still it actully looked pretty real

[fiachramurphy]

he admited it. he used a bllod capsule. preety obhious really. he looks like something from a bad vampire movie. and then when he got to the back room he docter refused to let the other teams docs look at him (your supposed to let them) and then cut his mouth up a bit to try to make it look real.

[Jakesta246]

lol he winks at 2:59

so fake

[Vyckeris12]

That was fake blood, he got disqualified for 6 months. They repeated this scenario in 4 games.

[h0k13]

could someone help me out with this one? i don't know much about rugby, but the man that came off the field was clearly bleeding...was he the one being accused of faking injury? looked pretty real to me.

[scott797]

I believe he put a capsule in his mouth full of fake blood...it was all a scam...

[h0k13]

is it really a scam? or is it a scam because people say it's a scam.

[hanros98]

@h0k13 not mate it is a real scam, harlequins have been officially cited, watch him get the blood capsule out of this sock at the end

[rugbyboy121]

@h0k13 he used fake blood and if u look he winked at the bench

[bananafruity104]

he was given an order from his coach to fake the injury by biting down on a blood capsule! he wanted to bring on evans because he was the place kicker and they needed to score a penalty because they were trailing 5-6 with less than 5 minutes to go! the only way he could come back on was if williams went off. disgraceful...still, Leinster still won!! heineken cup champions!! :)

[h0k13]

i realize what happened & what the motivation was for it. i still want proof it was a scam, other than people simply saying that it was or stating their opinions.

[bananafruity104]

harlequins refused to let the leinster medical staff look at williams' injury which you are supposed to do, which proves they were hiding something. also they found the blood capsule and management and coaching staff eventually told the truth.

[h0k13]

if they told the truth, then fine, but to say that someone didn't look at his injury is false. they had a guy literally digging around in his mouth as he came off the field.

[alroyrob]

Ex Police Constable Dean Richards....your a disgrace !!

[ArgoUseful]

I don't know football inside and out... why is this a scandal?

[ArgoUseful]

@ArgoUseful Rugby* not football

[CrazyPurpleLady]

@ArgoUseful You're not supposed to bring a player back on that was already taken off. But they brought back their kicker so they'd have a chance of winning. Williams faked the injury, in doing so quins could have kncoked Leinster out of the Heiniken cup, which they went on to win. Basically.

[chugger2hotty]

fake blood lol

[avril2]

Clear concience Mr Richards?

A bloody disgrace!

[Raichu234]

I still support u quins but did u really have 2 do that?

[thomasimon]

At the interviews, when they show a replay of him being taken of you can see him winking...

[ironnica]

@thomasimon at 2:22

[LilMisRacerFD]

i think the whole thing was really stupid and pointless, they didnt even win the game in the end!!! Lemon6975 is right at ...1.13... you really can tell its fake blood!! and also the wink at ...2.24.... gave it away thats why the orginally looked into it in the first place!!! Stupid man!!!

[spreckenzeluke]

I support quins but that is just retarded thanks for letting your fans down Dean Richards and Tom Williams you idiots

[Raichu234]

it was deans fault really. Williams was the scapgoat!

[Lemon7695]

When you look at 1:13 you can see that it's definetely fake blood.

[Adeon55]

Looks like a vampire there.. blah! Blah!!!

[Niallydastump2]

you spell cought* -caught- you tit!!!

[scogs101]

well its stupid, it happens in the game all the time, its just in this case they got cought and it happens in football aswell thats what i hate about people saying that they were cheaters. Bath were in trouble with drugs, thats 10 times as bad as fake blood

[DKP4]

Barnes twigged it straight away

[Kietzphat]

0:38 Williams winks at his teammates.

[GodalonethroughQuran]

'Who punched Tom Williams in the mouth? Tom Williams?' Well done Stuart Barnes.

[Henrymister]

wat a dick if he wanted 2 come of then why didnt he just fukin sub him

[klutz92kat]

they didn't have any substitutions left, but you're allowed as many blood substitutions as you need.... hence the solution they came up with

[SewnShutEyes]

It wasn't that they wanted Williams off, it was that they wanted Evans on for a drop goal attempt. Which he missed anyway thankfully.

[Joukisan]

Loser.

[LUFC896]

i take it you've nevrr actually sen a game of R.L?

[MyChemAreTheBest]

No, but I have SEEN a rugby league game.

Learn to spell

[cefballer101]

loool at 0.35

"Well thats obvious blood.."

[Snapeywape]

Both Union and League played by real men, but Union needs to clean itself up. I think the punishment is still too leniant.

[LUFC896]

"RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYED BY REAL MEN WHO BLEED REAL BLOOD"

bloody Yawnion

[squirtrocks123]

league is shite mate. union is much more brutal than league will ever be

[LUFC896]

you takein piss mate? if you call kicking a ball up and down for 80 miniutes brutal

how anyone can think Yawnion is better to watch than league aint right in the head

seriously...did ya not see Leeds SAints game other week?

[squirtrocks123]

@LUFC896 to be honest i do actually like league a lot but union just ticks more boxes for me. League is faster and higher scoring but i prefer to see the far more physical version that is union. I agree english side do appear to be playing some strange form of tennis at the moment. Tbh i would prefer league if they just made it more than 5 tackles because once they've had 5 they just kick it away as well. Union tends to get bigger hits as well and has a larger variety of sportsman types.

[macphersonleedsunite]

Union is shit but there are people have to put up with it whist the League season is off.

[Cloondolkoyne]

The original substitution of Evans was part of the whole scam- you can see the smile on his face. They didn't need him on the pitch until the possible last minute. The whole thing was planned- not doubt in my mind!

[momotheonly1]

i think dean richards is the spineless one

[hairymerchsex]

ooo

[elduderino100]

Tom Williams is a spineless cunt. Didn't man up at the time and say no, left the field of play winking, grassed up everyone to save himself then grassed up everyone again to save his skin. Would you want him in your team? FUCK NO!

[stupidjunk878]

I didn't see the wink?

[elduderino100]

0:37 he shouts over and winks.

[stupidjunk878]

Ha ha, what a stupid cunt, can't believe he winked in front of all the cameras and the crowd. What a moron xD

[noumyali]

lol;watch 2-25

em is winking ;;;;

[naija31]

Haha Hear the commentator @ 0:51 "ho punched Tom Williams in the mouth...Tom williams?" hahaha