Rugby World Cup 2011
IT APPEARS Wallabies first five Quade Cooper does indeed have at least one Kiwi fan.
Michelle Taylor, a New Zealander living in Australia who follows Cooper on Twitter, tweeted last week that her mother in New Zealand had been rushed to hospital.
“A short time afterwards I received a message from Quade asking how she was doing. It was a wonderful gesture from him and he didn't have to do it. Go Wallabies (and Robbie [Deans]),” she wrote.
Cooper has incurred the wrath of All Blacks fans following a series of cheap-shots on Richie McCaw and seems to love the fact that he is ‘Public Enemy No 1’ in New Zealand at the moment.
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