RUGBY league has endured some off-field scandals in recent years, but consider the following happening now and the media frenzy it would create.
Imagine Peter Beattie and Todd Greenberg’s jobs being done by the same man, given the ultimate power to run the sport almost how he liked.
That man, inflicted with a gambling habit, misappropriates more than $50,000 from the leagues club where he previously worked, only exposed six years later after the Police Commissioner failed to ensure charges did not go to court. A state chief judiciary figure then instructed said man be acquitted in an attempted multi-layered cover-up.
This is the story surrounding the demise of rugby league’s most powerful figure – Kevin Humphreys – in 1983, a year that proved controversial, but also a revolutionary landmark.…
