Mara van Rooyen had good reason to be bitter. You would have been too if you managed Facebook pages like “Hou by die Blou” and “Bullsssssssss” and your beloved team dared to open a Super Rugby season with two losses.
But Bitter Mara is also a woman of action. “Whether it’s about Oscar or the Bulls, I don’t take nonsense,” she told the reporter.
She certainly wasn’t taking nonsense when in the early hours of the morning after the Cheetahs loss she unleashed the insomnia-fuelled Facebook-rant equivalent of a nuclear arsenal, aiming it straight at the belly of the beast. On the receiving end: Bulls CEO Barend van Graan.
She was still not taking nonsense when she got a phone call from the Bulls boss two days later.
“We’ve already lost two &^%#$ matches this year,” she shouted into the phone. “We only played two ^$&^%$ matches this year,” came the helpless reply.
As far as sports stories go, page three was trumping the entire sports section. Here we had a real contest to enjoy.
And then it stopped. The no-nonsense woman of action had had enough. “We fought and cursed each other so much that we couldn’t finish the call. I hung up on him,” she told a disappointed audience.
