Rugby - I should have taken time off after 'mistake': All Black Smith


  • Rugby
  • Monday, 27 Mar 2017

Rugby Union - New Zealand Press Conference - Oatlands Park Hotel, Weybridge, Surrey - 26/10/15 New Zealand's Aaron Smith during the Press Conference Action Images via Reuters / Paul Childs Livepic

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - All Blacks scrumhalf Aaron Smith has said he should have taken time away from rugby as he battled with the embarrassing fallout from a tryst with a woman in an airport toilet last year.

Smith was suspended for one test, voluntarily stood down for another and received an official warning from New Zealand Rugby last October following revelations of a liaison in a disabled toilet at Christchurch Airport.

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