Quote Saddened!="Saddened!"Contentious one that. I'm with you, he was clearly attempting to get his arm over and around Myler to get the offload away and the impact was completely accidental. They must have deemed it reckless however, as the contact was pretty severe.
The panels are always a sham. You'll get Phil Clarke's brother and father on there when a Wigan player is up before a big game for example.'"
The thing about Colin is - and anyone who knows him personally or worked alongside him will tell you this - he's the most
BIASED, one-eyed pie-eater the great lord almighty has
EVER placed upon the good earth. Worse still - he
HATES Saints with a passion (personally I think he's still suffering from PTSD from the days when Alex Murphy was coaching the club).
Me and him would regularly chat about the weekend's games after he dropped off one of his reconditioned hydraulic pumps or motor rewinds (which were uniformly godawful
) or made a pickup. If Saints had turned Wigan over in the derby I'd first ask him which players he thought won the match and then gleefully stand back and watch as he collapsed into paroxysms of coughing and choking.
[i"Something caught in your throat, Col?"[/i
He'd just grimace, his face the colour of ivory and glistening with sweat - like he'd just passed a kidney stone the size of a grape.
It's impossible not to like Colin - in a comedy rogue kind of way. But seriously, he's the LAST person I'd want to see on a tribunal involving a Wigan player (an opinion I often shared with him evoking the usual wink and flash of his pearly whites). I'm not saying the guy's corrupt. He just
GENUINELY BELIEVES every Wiganer hauled before the beak is the wounded victim of an outrageous slur against his character by jealous rivals, whilst players from other clubs are demonstrable villains who must be punished with the full weight of the sport.
