Well, welcome to our readers here in New Zealand, & around the world, I'm Whetu Ngapo & you're tuning in to my KiwiAvenger blog here on blogger, but first in the rugby as the former twice men's Rugby World Cup winning player for the AB's in both 2011 & 2015 of Ma'a Nonu has been given a 3 week ban for tackling Wandisile Simelane high that resulted in a sin bin by the referee who referred it to the TMO for dangerous contact infringement when Nonu's team of Toulon had a close shave when they won by 3 points against the Sharks in the European Rugby Champions Cup clash according to the Whanganui Chronicle sports newspaper article that I saw on April 9th this year.
And secondly in motor racing as the New Zealand Supercars Championship double header is coming, with Taupo first on the 10th to 12th of April at Taupo International Motorsport Park, then they head to their historic first ever South Island round at Ruapuna on the 17th through to the 19th at Euromarque Motorsport Park, but we have revealed the points leader of the championship, & it is former Supercars champion from 2023, & a winning driver of the Great Race that is the Bathurst 1000 from the year before alongside his fellow winning co-driver Todd Hazelwood, of Brodie Kostecki who currently drives for DJR as he dominated when he won all but one race at the Australian Grand Prix meeting last time out (The highest placed Kiwi is Matt Payne in the Ford who won the Jason Richards Memorial Trophy last year in Taupo, is 4th in the championship, while 'Woody' of Ryan Wood, is the highest placed Toyota driver in the championship at 7th going into the next event), meanwhile that James Warburton, the CEO of Supercars Championship, has announced his shock departure less than a year after his return due to the conflict between him & the board members such as the shareholders who asked him to step down that role, so the search of a new chief executive officer is on, & they have revealed that Barclay Nettefold will step in as the caretaker CEO who says that an influx of candidates have already come to the fore as the championship searches for its next chief executive officer according to Greg Murphy (The former 4 time winning driver of the Great Race that is the Bathurst 1000) who was chatting to Scott Pye on the Late Braking programme that I saw was shown on Sky Sport.
And thirdly that the 2006 Football (Soccer) men's World Cup final won by Italy about the Zinedine Zidane headbutt on Marco Materazzi that there was no VAR back then to refer it to a possible send off (It was introduced in 2018 to check for 4 things, whether it's a goal, a penalty, red card, &/or mistaken identity, & this is similar to the TMO in rugby where they always refer to both things, whether it's in the act of grounding a try, &/or foul play being involved according to the previous blogs that I did where the sport of football (Soccer) had turned into rugby), so the fourth official had seen something before the ref had shown Zidane the red card for assaulting the Italian defender (Moments before Florent Malouda, Zidane's teammate, got booked for a back chat) by using his head to knock Materazzi (Who got banned for abusing Zidane before the attack had occurred (And the fans attending the final were booing about that particular incident had occurred meaning that they were not happy by being livid with themselves because of the crowd who did not like it when they weren't appreciated about the reaction of the attack such as the French & Italian fans, as well as the neutrals including their locals such as the Germans in which that moment had shocked the football (Soccer) world following an heated exchange such as trash talking or more like the Aussie term of sledging, even though with the Italian defender as the French midfielder reacted with an assault following a verbal provocation that stunned the whole stadium which resulted in a send off offence (Which was the most notorious red cards of all time, compared to the 2023 men's Rugby World Cup where the All Black captain at the time of Sam Cane was the first man to be sent off in a men's RWC final for a dangerous tackle on Springbok centre Jesse Kriel (Cane had been shown the sin bin, & on report before it was being changed to a send off offence due to there was a high degree of force, but without mitigation in which the decision had been made by the English ref (Who got abused by our All Black fans who were upset & infuriated about the Aaron Smith try had been waved off as a result of a knock on in the scrum in the lead up to the try in which the war on ref abuse online (For which has become non-existent) had begun when Wayne Barnes got abused meaning that he is sick & tired of these abusers, & is out there to stamp out on hate therefore resulting in a crack down on abuse towards the rugby referees telling these people to back off by leaving them alone such as they asked to show respect at all times for that was dreadful & shocking according to the previous stories that I did on my blogs like from the year before) at the time was right) for one of the most notorious red cards in rugby of all time, even though we played with 14 players for the rest of the game because we fell short in the end) against the Frenchman in a moment of madness like that (And Materazzi never caught Zidane up again after that infamous headbutt during the 2006 World Cup final which went down in history when a headbutt after a brief exchange of words when the image of that moment will live forever in the memory of football (Soccer) fans, even though that the Football/Soccer men's World Cup winning goalkeeper of Italian Gigi Buffon who said that he was the VAR that he was convinced that Zidane should be sent from the field when the fourth official saw it, not the referee who did not see it because of a delay), therefore he missed a couple of matches for his club during the 2006-07 season) to the ground in vain as the French captain at the time had lost his cool, before being suspended for 3 matches, but since his retirement that he had to serve to work for the community for 300 hours as part of his sentence in exchange for that (And I'm discussing things about football (Soccer) at the moment on my blogs lately in anticipation of the Football (Soccer) men's World Cup in North America due in both June & July for which has been blighted by geopolitical tensions as well as the war in Iran (For which I was reminiscing with when I played GTA IV on the 16th of April with their best expansion pack to date that is the Ballad of Gay Tony where a stash or stick up when Luis Lopez & his amigos of Armando & Henrique, shoot towards the gangsters therefore triggering a gang war that I have not seen combat like that since Tehran, as well as the police until he & his cohorts head to their SUV to drive off before legislation enforcement reinforcements arrive by heading into the drop off point with their stash in order to complete the drug wars mission), especially the political side of it where fans around the world weren't able to travel by attending these matches (And ticket prices will be very dear needless to say) due to the boycott that most of them are avoiding the United States as I mentioned in my previous stories before, despite rugby being our unofficial national game here in New Zealand where it's a gem, & always been the king in our country (And I did a blog about it in 2022, but the sport was invented in 1823 in England (The birthplace of rugby (Along with cricket, football (Soccer), tennis & league as the other sports that the English had founded) by the late William Webb Ellis, so he picked the ball up & ran with it because it was against the loopholes in football (Soccer as I mentioned in my previous stories on my blogs), while cricket is our national summer game here (Compared to Australia where cricket is the national sport in the country, while their national winter game is Australian Rules Football).
And finally that I have revealed that my fave North American sport is out of the 4 along with baseball, gridiron & basketball, & it's ice hockey just like Rejean because of me owning 5 ice hockey games (I'll be getting the 2028 one that features the return of the World Cup of Hockey (Not due until 2028 where they had the last one which was in 2016), but I'll still be getting this & next year's edition of the NHL video games coming out) along with the 4 baseball games (And the reason why I wanted to get MLB the Show 26 is the World Baseball Classic was on & also I've got the 23, 24 & 25 ones as well) as well as the one gridiron game (Madden NFL 26) & both the basketball ones (NBA 2K22 & NBA 2K26) + the WWE 2K22, 2K23, 2K24, 2K25 & 2K26 wrestling game ones that I own at the moment.
So that is my 703rd blog of the year 2026 (MMXXVI) & my 55th of this year, viva Ukraine.
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