Next time you want to streak onto a rugby paddock during a sold out test match make sure your ‘sogaimiti’ tattoo doesn’t show for everyone to see.
Nobody wants a repeat of a ‘Brian Lima’ torpedo tackle by a chasing security officer on a Samoan ‘sogaimiti’ that left him for ‘dead’ during a popular rugby match last night.
‘Sogaimiti’ are legendary Samoan ‘men of steel’. But the one flattened by the tackle turned into a Samoan ‘ man of shattered steel’.
Streaking onto a test match rugby field is more of a ‘palagi’ thing because they are normally the ones who do it.
The runners are usually lanky and tall, too drunk to run straight. If they don’t stumble on wobbly legs, a short puff of wind is all it takes to tumble them over.
Trouble with our Samoan ‘sogaimiti’ is he was too sure of his body of steel he never saw what came flying like a David Tua left hook that struck him into ‘chirpy land’.
He and his tattoo thudded on the grass like a heavy basket of fresh taro from the plantation. The thumbing flying tackle could be felt all the way to where a country full of proud, cringing ‘sogaimiti’ watched it live on television coverage or on video clips.
“….. ‘sogaimiti’ or not all it takes is the right punch and ‘chirpy land’ here we come, dear.