Article: RU: Healey fined over newspaper column


AAP Sports News (Australia)
09-07-2001
RU: Healey fined over newspaper column

By Maria Hawthorne

LONDON, Sept 6 AAP - British and Irish Lions winger Austin Healey has been slapped
with an undisclosed fine for his controversial newspaper column during the tour of Australia
in July.

Healey told the Lions disciplinary committee, which included tour manager Donal Lenihan,
coach Graham Henry and captain Martin Johnson, that he did not write the article, in which
Wallabies lock Justin Harrison was called "an ape", "a plod" and "a plank".

Healey also claimed he did not have the opportunity to check the column, which appeared
in British newspaper The Guardian, and said he found the comments ...

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