Amid the excitement of Rocco Mediate missing out on the Ryder Cup, Dinara Safina’s strong progress in the US Open tennis and England’s washed out one-dayer against South Africa, it’s difficult to know where to start. Perhaps the best place is the NRL judiciary, which sat up half the night trying to decide if Warriors full-back Wade McKinnon should be shot or hung.
In the end, he merely got hamstrung with a three-match ban, despite the prosecution bloke pushing for 11 and describing McKinnon’s act as “reprehensible”, which had the learned panel scrambling for their pop-up dictionaries (suitable for ages 3-7).
Poor Wade sat there in his best tie and told a sad tale of a double mouthguard (we’re intrigued, despite ourselves) and a recent sinus problem. He had to spit, y’honour, he just HAD to. Perhaps three matches is the best result to stop this nonsense going on any longer.
Anyway, back to Rocco Mediate…