One said that the flamboyant Mr Berlusconi was jealous of the (ball-kicking) azzurris' popularity.
"It was good to see Rhys come of age and take the ball-kicking duties on, he did extremely well, " said Davies.
Sexton again converted the 19th-minute try, but was kicking his heels in the sin-bin seven minutes later after kicking the ball away following his try-saving tackle on Jonathan Davies.
But then the home side lost back-row Robin Sowden-Taylor to the sin-bin for slowing down ball, Priestland kicking the resulting penalty for a 11-6 lead at half-time.
The home side began to build pressure - largely through the Chiefs poor kicking - but they spilled the ball in one foray and Exeter worked it wide to Rennie who weaved his way to the line.
But Connacht suffered a second sin-binning when Loughney was penalised for kicking a ball out of a ruck, enabling the Scarlets to tie the scores at 30-30 when Davies went in for his second try.
Sport is kicking a ball of wrapped-up rags around a stony field.
The home side were briefly reduced to 14 men themselves when, with Northampton camped on Sale's line, scrum-half Peel incurred the wrath of referee Tim Wigglesworth and became the first of the night's three sin-binnings for kicking the ball out of Martin Roberts' hands as he attempted to take a quick penalty tap.
And they soon slipped further behind after Phil Vickery was penalised, and sin-binned, for kicking the ball through at ruck.
But Grassi gave his team an unnecessary handicap on 63 minutes when he was spotted kicking Webster off the ball at a set-piece, and was dismissed.
The video referee confirmed that Wilkinson had kept the ball off the turf - emphasising his defensive qualities as well as his obvious kicking attributes.
In fact, many of them started out just like many of you -- playing on a team at school, or just kicking a ball around on the playground with their friends.
The midfielder was shown a first yellow for kicking the ball away and then received his marching orders for a second-half foul on George Boyd.
However, Lavezzi was sent off for kicking a ball at Cagliari coach Massimiliano Allegri as tempers flared during injury-time, then Bogliacino's header denied the home team a fifth successive win.
"I thought we were really poor with too many turn-overs, kicking wasn't great and when we had opportunities to move the ball we didn't, " said the 44-year-old New Zealander.
Switzerland stayed top in Group E without kicking a ball, as Albania moved up to second on goal difference above Iceland after their respective one-goal wins away to Norway and Slovenia.
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