Lachlan Murdoch flies home to Australia and into Phil Rothfield scandal
As of 6:17am Friday, News Corp and 21st Century Fox co-chairman
Lachlan Murdoch is in town – Sydney town, that is.
Is the apple of Rupert's eye here to deliver a final verdict on the fate of the Daily Telegraph's ruddy sports editor-at-large
Phil Rothfield?
"Buzz" will be hoping not, given how sacred cows of his vintage have recently been treated by the Sun King's fully arrived heir – the most recent of which has been the recently-despatched Fox News chief Roger Ailes.
Given Ailes delivered $1 billion of earnings to the Murdochs' US broadcasting arm but still bit the dust, you could imagine how much post phone-hacking skin LKM will be prepared to lose for a rugby league reporter who has admitted to accepting cash payments into a betting account from a former brothel-owner banned from having such an account himself. But then Lachlan does love his Broncos…
As for Buzz, what about his milieu,
including former Parramatta star Kieran Foran and his brother Liam, both self-disclosed buddies of aforementioned bankrupt Eddie Hayson. Our favourite line in the Tele on Saturday? "Everyone knows that the Armaguard collects the cash from TABs on Wednesday on the Central Coast," Hayson reckoned. Um, were we really all meant to know that? News to us.
You have to feel for Walmart's US chief,
Greg Foran, father of both league players, and a total straighty 180; how devastated he must be to see his sons keeping such company – even more malodorous than members of the Woolworths Board!
And the obvious question is, after
North Sydney's Marist Brothers took down Mitchell Pearce's portrait from its trophy room after he pretended to f*** a dog, then genuinely pissed himself, what would it take for the Foran boys' mugs to hit storage?!
