Wendell Sailor loves attention, so we’ll give it to him in the form of a second nomination for The Frownlow Medal Hall of Fame.
The Frownlow Medal is awarded to the player whose off-field demeanour epitomises the values of the modern-day footballer and draws attention to the status of footballers as role models to young Australians. It covers Australia’s four major football codes: the National Rugby League (NRL), Australian Football League (AFL), the A-League (Football) and Rugby Union’s Super Rugby competition. NRL player Shaun Kenny-Dowall won the inaugural medal in 2015, while NRL star Talatau Amone is the most recent recipient.
The Frownlow Medal Hall of Fame honours former players and players who received media attention in previous seasons, for similarly scandalous behaviour, and its inductees include Ben Cousins and Julian O’Neill.
Sailor loves the spotlight so much that he switched from rugby league to rugby union to represent Australia in both codes, and recently got into a second bar fight on his way to the latest hall of fame nomination.
The ex Broncos and Waratahs winger has been charged with two counts of common assault after an incident at a bar in the Sydney CBD. Staff claim he had been on a four-hour drinking session and that he assaulted a man as well as intimidating staff.
Knowing that every modern bar has security cameras, Sailor made sure they caught his good side when he refused to leave the bar, and “…got in my face and was talking and spitting (but not on purpose). I wiped my face and he reached out, pushed my face and smeared the spit into my hair and face,” claimed a staff member.
He was also said to be incoherent and was later escorted from the premises and taken to the nearest police station.
Craving even more attention, and recognition from the Frownlow judges, Sailor made sure he got slapped with an AVO earlier this year in a completely unrelated incident.
But that’s not all.
The attention magnet is facing a further three charges from the bar fight, including intimidation and offensive behaviour. he Daily Telegraph.
Sailor’s first bar incident occurred in South Africa while he was still playing rugby union, and this combined with a positive test for cocaine earned him his first hall of fame nomination back in 2020.
Big Dell, as he likes to call himself, will be the centre of attention at the awards night for The Frownlow Medal and The Frownlow Medal Hall of Fame later this year, especially if he brings the cocaine.
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The Frownlow Medal 