Play the ball, for this NRL carnival comes with sideshows aplenty Nick Tedeschi © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP
Nothing in sport is certain anymore. All the assumed truths of decades past – that games will be played, seasons completed and champions crowned – now carry question marks.
The closest rugby league has to a sure thing in 2021 is that its biggest star will not be a player or coach but a big-dreaming, hyper-aggressive administrator who wears ill-fitting suits and collects the bodies of those who get in his way.
The rise and rise of Peter V’landys shows no signs of turning. His ascension started when he brought the NRL back quicker than any other major sports league in the world. Given his popularity among both the faithful and those in clubland, and his bulldozing force of personality, he will continue to be the sun around which the game in Australia revolves.
Play the ball, for this NRL carnival comes with sideshows aplenty
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