League boss under fire for offensive remarks

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The Rugby League World Cup is disconnected to a nightmare commencement with a starring English authoritative forced to apologise to the Fijian squad for an violative remark made connected stage.

Speaking successful beforehand of colleagues, players, nine executives and guests astatine the RFL's yearly awards, the league's brag Ralph Rimmer declared that the Fijian squad had arrived successful the UK:

"Fiji person already arrived. We don't deliberation anybody has been arrested yet, bash we?

"No, we're alright, truthful we're going beauteous good then."

Rimmer aboriginal offered a grovelling apology for the tasteless remark but determination person been calls for his contiguous resignation successful the United Kingdom.

Rimmer is contracted to the RFL until the extremity of the twelvemonth connected a $290,000 wage and is determined to spot retired the storm.

But nationalist unit is mounting via mainstream and societal media aft the remarks went viral.

Rimmer denied being a racist but "apologised unreservedly" successful a prepared connection and besides contacted the Fijian absorption squad to accidental sorry.

"There was nary volition to malign the Fiji squad - successful information the discourse of the remark was my excitement that their accomplishment successful the state marked the imminence of the World Cup competition, to which they person contributed truthful importantly and positively since 1995, connected and disconnected the field."

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