Manager fined 100 pigs for misbehaviour

The manager of the Samoan rugby team is having to raid his piggy bank - after he was fined 100 sows by his home village for misbehaving at the recent World Cup.Mathew Vaea was ordered to give leaders in Leauvaa the animals for tarnishing his chiefly title of tuala by drinking regularly and treating the campaign in New Zealand like a holiday.Leauvaa chief Vaifale Iose said Vaeas actions, which he claimed led to the team failing to reach the quarter finals, had brought his position into disrepute.He told the Samoa Observer newspaper: The title of tuala received bad publicity in the media because tuala Mathew failed to perform some of his duties as the manager for the Manu Samoa.Rather than hand the animals over to the village, Vaea has paid a fine of 2,000 Samoan tala (535) and made a formal apology to village elders.
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