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Article: Judgement day for Healey over newspaper outburst
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 5, 2001
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AUSTIN HEALEY will find out his punishment tomorrow for his
controversial newspaper column during the British and Irish Lions
tour to Australia.
Healey, the most unpredictable player of the England backline,
attends a Lions disciplinary hearing in D ublin eight weeks after the
tour ended with a 2-1 Test series defeat to the world champions.
Healey appears before a threeman-panel of tour manager Donal Lenihan
of Ireland, coach Graham Henry and Lions captain Martin Johnson, who
is also Healey's club captain at Leicester.
Healey has been hauled before the hearing to talk about a column
under his name in T he Guardian w hich was headlined "And for our
finale . . . stuffing the arrogant ...