O'Gara kicks "crazy rumours" into touch (Yahoo!Xtra Sport)

Irish star Ronan O'Gara has lashed out at "crazy rumours", including a supposed gambling addiction, in his newly-released autobiography. O'Gara will line up in the No 10 jersey for Ireland when they face the All Blacks in Dublin next month. By then his book is expected to be a best-seller in Ireland, lifting the lid on a variety of rumours which circulated about him during Ireland's ill-fated 2007 World Cup campaign in France. But O'Gara writes in his new book that the most damning was a rumour that JP McManus wiped out supposed debts running into six-figures. "Probably the most comical story was the one where I was supposed to have thrown a Heineken Cup quarter-final against Llanelli in 2007," he writes. "The story goes that JP and I backed Llanelli to cover my gambling debts and I deliberately missed shots at goal to make... [read full story]                    

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