This Footage Of London’s Mayor Rugby-Tackling A 10 Year Old Is Awful/Amazing

In completely normal, not at all strange or baffling news, Mayor of London Boris Johnson has decided to tackle a tiny child to the ground during a friendly game of rugby in Japan

(Is that not a completely ordinary English sentence?)
Look, it’s easy to get lost in the moment and forget that international business trips are usually not successful if you have roughly hip & shouldered small children. 
But that’s neither here nor there. This video may legitimately be one of the best things pieces of footage to come out of London since ‘Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels’ was released:
 

A Brief History of Boris Johnson: Sportsman

Watch Boris Johnson rugby tackle a child to the ground in Japan – and keep watching for some of his other sporting faux pas http://bit.ly/1PiCjOE

Posted by Sky News on Thursday, 15 October 2015

Good work Boris. Excellent, fantastic, truly A+ work Boris. 
via Sky News.
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