THERE is a book on the rise and fall of Springbok coaches called The Poisoned Chalice and it reveals the psychological torture that coaches undergo in one of the toughest jobs in sport.
The author, Gavin Rich, suggested that when the coaches sip from the chalice, they incur not mad cow’s disease but Mad Coaches’ Disease (MCD).
MCD is easy to detect because the symptoms have been obvious from the early post-isolation coaches – think the thousand-yard stare of Ian McIntosh – right up to the madcap
