Supersport's Good Week / Bad Week: Free stuff!

Good week for:

Free stuff!

The good folk at Steinlager have tapped into SuperSports' itch for reader giveaways. They've given us two terrific prize packages. Get the question right and you'll win a platinum double pass (that's covered seating to you) worth $150 so you can take a pal to the Bledisloe Cup match at Eden Park on July 18.

They're also chucking in a Steinlager Classic supporters' kits consisting of a jacket, a cap, a bag, and a flag cape - worth another $150.

Just answer this simple question: Who is SuperSports' favourite Wallaby legend? It's a pretty slack question, so it should be easy to get. Email your answer to supersport@nzherald.co.nz and put "Andrew Slack Competition" in the subject line.

Auckland footy scores

Salutations to the good folk at Auckland City Football Club - they've bagged a spot at the lucrative Club World Cup, to be played in Abu Dhabi in December. That's a minimum payout of $850,000 and a season's worth of bragging rights over Waitakere United.

A good tip

Hungarian model Mariann Fogarassy has a hot tip for any floozies hoping to meet David Beckham. She rubbed shoulders with the free-scoring midfielder after a money-spinning AC Milan game in Hungary last week. "I got myself an official Milan shirt, and I went to the stadium hours before the game. I found an Italian TV crew, and I pretended I'd tripped over their cables. When they helped me, I started to tag along with them until finally I got hold of an official pass from them. And when they entered the stadium and did interviews and pictures with the stars, of course, I was there too."

Ah, romance...

Mils away

Good on Mils Muliaina for pushing the NZRU's muddled sabbatical policy to its logical and awkward conclusion. The Chiefs captain has swerved the long haul through South Africa in 2010, preferring to sun himself in Hamilton while his mates get thumped about the veldt.


Bad week for:

Dokic takes a beating
Tennis parents are notoriously flammable and none more so than Damir Dokic, father of Australian star Jelena. He's been detained in Serbia for allegedly threatening the Australian ambassador in Belgrade.

A raid on his house reportedly found two illegal bombs tucked amid his licensed arsenal of guns. Damir told a Serbian newspaper he was outraged about allegations in Oz that he'd beaten his daughter.

"I have a full house of weapons and I have a licence to have them. I don't have rockets yet, but it is the smallest problem to find them. I am expecting that after this comment, Serbian police will ... arrest me."

He added: "There is no child that was not beaten by parents - the same with Jelena."

Eccentric rule variation I
A penalty shootout to decide a Heineken Cup knockout match? And to think the Poms give us grief about tweaking with the rules!

Eccentric rule variation II
It seems the shootout was tried out here a while ago. A correspondent writes: "All this brouhaha over the penalty shootout between Cardiff and Leicester is interesting. King's College used the same system way back in the mid-1980s to decide a senior match in the traditional inter-house rugby knockout competition. I took part in one and got my kick over. Those were the days without kicking tees, and with the old-style leather balls. It didn't go to sudden death because enough of our opposition missed during the first batch of kicks."

Porking fun
We shouldn't ham up swine flu gags (sorry), as Hector Reynoso, of Mexican club Chiva Guadalajara, found after he gobbed a wedge of spit and snot at an opponent last weekend. He then told the bogey-soaked Sebastian Penco that he had swine flu and thus landed a provisional ban from international competition for his worries.

If Penco breaks out in rashers (stop it!) he'll have to get some oinkment (enough!) and rub it into the Parma (no more!) his hammed (you're fired!) until cured (get out!).