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Article: Grannygate's woundstoughest battle scars.
- Article from:
- The Herald on Sunday (Auckland, New Zealand)
- Article date:
- April 20, 2008
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THERE ARE a few battle scars on Nathan Fien's body and face. There's the scar on his forehead from the deep cut suffered against Manly in 2005 as well as others from surgery on both knees, a cheekbone and dental work after Luke Ricketson knocked some of his teeth out in 2004.
They pale in comparison, however, to the wounds inflicted in the wake of the Grannygate scandal. That episode cut more deeply than any gash to the forehead or scalpel to a knee.
For a couple of weeks during the 2006 Tri Nations, Fien and his grandmother became the central figures in a murky world of claims and attempted cover-ups.
Fien quickly went to ground at the time, ...