Viewers have been left bewildered by the resurfacing of a post-match interview given by Brendan Venter when he was director of rugby at Saracens.
The Springboks World Cup winner enjoyed a successful playing career, and he would go on to have more joy in the coaching world.
Venter joined Sarries in 2009 and is credited with setting the blueprint for the success that was to follow. He is also well remembered for this controversial, albeit humorous, post-match interview.
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The clip has resurfaced on social media after being posted on RugbyJoe, who have titled it "Is this the funniest post-match interview ever?"
Viewers were left befuddled after watching the comical interview, in which Venter gives a series of strange answers to perfectly legitimate questions.
"What the f*** have I just watched?" said one.
"Is he trolling?" said another.
You can watch the clip below.
However, there is an explanation for the seemingly nonsensical answers that were given.
Venter had previously been fined £25,000 for publicly questioning referee Christophe Berdos after Sarries' loss to Leinster, so didn't want to incriminate himself in this specific post-match interview but wanted to protest.
Speaking to The Telegraph earlier this year, Venter explained his comedic inspiration came from a football film.
“We were driving to Gloucester on the bus and they had the movie ‘Mike Bassett: England Manager’ on," Venter said.
“It’s typical English humour and there was an interview with this really stupid coach. All he did was agree with the interviewer: ‘Yeah, really good, really good. Yeah, really poor, really poor’. I said: ‘That’s me! That’s my next interview. I’m going to show passive resistance’.
“There’s another brilliant scene where a player called Ramirez scores three goals against them and someone from the English team says: ‘Three cheers for Ramirez’. So, when the interviewer said to me that Sireli Bobo was really good I said: ‘Sireli Bobo, really good. Three cheers for Sireli Bobo’.
“My mother actually thought I’d been smoking something or that the stress had gotten to me. No not at all, it’s just a game. Edward (Griffiths) was holding his head in the background. It was a bit of fun.
“With all of the stress and all of the pressure that goes into rugby, spending so much time with nice people is just a privilege. That’s what we keep saying to each other.”
This wasn't his first dabble in controversy either.
He is also well-known for 'Biscuit Gate', where he was prevented from watching Sarries play in the Premiership final in 2010. In short, he ate a biscuit prior to learning his fate at a hearing with the RFU for some touchline misbehaviour earlier in the season. He was still chewing when he entered the hearing room so was punished. You can read more about that here .
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