Wallabies great David Campese has apologized after being reprimanded by Australian Federal Sports Minister Kate Lundy for questioning whether a female newspaper journalist should write about rugby.

Campese tweeted that a “girl” shouldn’t be covering rugby and then later dug the hole deeper as he tried to defend his stance by saying he meant female journalists were not as tough on coaches.

In the original tweet posted yesterday morning, Campese referred to Fairfax journalist Georgina Robinson who is covering Australia’s current tour of Europe.

Campese deleted the original sexist tweet but was unable to use his famous goosestep to avoid the criticism.

His day didn’t get much better when he then tweeted his phone number to his 8,000-odd followers when he tried to direct message the number to one of them.

Meanwhile, the Wallabies will meet Wales at 3:30am Sunday.


Story by: Akuila Cama
Source: Radio New Zealand