Archive for May, 2014
Don’t do a Polkinghorne
Have you ever lied to the tribunal to help get an opponent off? I have. It was unintentional lying but that hardly matters. Right or wrong, I adhered to the code of silence. I’d been belted in my first game of senior football. It was 25-years ago.
The code of silence seemed to die a silent death with the advent of video evidence in the late eighties. But Liam Picken, on Monday, proved the code of silence is still alive in football.
Hopeless on the punt
I opened an online betting account in February 2010 and got busted the following day. My explanation wasn’t rehearsed. It barely sounded like justification. Filled with guilt, I stammered on, that I’d only used $100 to open the account and I wouldn’t bet in big amounts.
