S3 E57: When Ma'a Nonu borrowed Jonah Lomu's car and scratched it...
Scrum V
BBC
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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New Zealand legend Ma'a Nonu speaks exclusively to the Scrum V podcast about the time he borrowed Jonah Lomu's car and the small matter of winning the Rugby World Cup....twice.
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| 0:00.0 | Boxer turned bouncer Viv Graham was one of the northeast most notorious hard men. |
| 0:06.5 | It was huge, you were strong, we could take anybody out. |
| 0:09.0 | Not many men on earth could match Viv Graham. |
| 0:11.6 | But his life of violence led to his downfall. |
| 0:15.0 | Why did it happen? |
| 0:16.0 | Why did they do that? |
| 0:17.3 | How did Viv Graham build an empire? |
| 0:19.8 | It was the power, the presence, the aura. And who was he, really? |
| 0:24.4 | Gangster, the story of Viv Graham. |
| 0:27.4 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.4 | You're listening to BBC Sounds. Hello everyone welcome to the Scrum fight podcast I'm Garathri Soin and I tell you one |
| 0:49.6 | thing today there's real energy in this virtual room because our producer here is bouncing |
| 0:57.6 | Nicki Robinson is excited because we've got a bonaide legend on the podcast today Nick. |
| 1:04.0 | Yes we have. I'll give him that he's finally shown his worth and pulled something out of the |
| 1:10.0 | bag more than a Zoom ID number. He has got someone who I'm really excited about |
| 1:16.7 | talking to and someone who loved watching the way he plays the game. |
| 1:22.4 | You can name him if you want. |
| 1:25.2 | All right. Well, he's won two World Cups. There's not many people have done that. |
| 1:29.5 | 103 cups for the All Blacks. Yeah which is incredible and someone who I |
| 1:36.2 | hate to have played against because he's massive and really physical but is also a |
| 1:41.6 | great distributor great all-round player. |
| 1:44.3 | Mar Nonu is someone who I'm really excited to chat to. |
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