What we have is some footage of some horseplay between a man and a woman who are supposed to be friends.
I do think that the media is making too much out of this as are many people on here. Maybe Zara knows her man better than all of you and she actually trusts him - knows that he might engage in some harmless flirting but that it stops there. I find that most women who take offence of Mike's type of behaviour are so insecure in their marriage that the one essential ingredient is actually lacking - trust.
It must also be remembered that this was first reported in NZ - the host nation and favourite. Some gamesmanship is also involved I am sure - to distract the English squad and one of their best players in particular.
Sure the footage is there but if this was just a normal night at the pub in England do you think it would be getting this sort of coverage - I don't.
The Rugby World Cup is huge in NZ, with crowds of 60,000+ from a population of 4.5 million. Again yes there are many people from other countries there for this tournament but in non-Rugby nations many people don't realise how big this tournament is - something like the third largest international team competition in the world - behind the Football World Cup (soccer for the North Americans) and the Olympics - maybe the cricket world cup would have a larger TV audience due to the nearly 1 billion Indians and multiple millions of Pakistanis, Banglideshis and Sri Lankans.
There are the obvious nations of course - England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland (the only major game in which both Northern Ireland and the Republic play as one nation), South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, France and Italy but also Tonga, Samoa, USA, Canada, Georgia, Russia (for the first time), Argentina, Japan, Namibia, Fiji and Roumania. Outside of the top nations the others have to go through qualifying tournaments.
The USA beat Russia the other day by the way for anyone interested and Canada is to play France next I think while England is due to play Georgia on Sunday.
For anyone interested in learning some more about the World Cup:
Official RWC 2011 Site - Fixtures
By the way - I am a 'rugby tragic' so I am currently in 7th heaven (or as the rugby ads tell us supporting the 'game they play in heaven').