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What on earth is going on in the head of Tim Smith?
Jacquelin Magnay
June 24, 2006
PARRAMATTA halfback Tim Smith took a shine to an attractive lass last year. Met her, spoke to her, moved on. Didn't think anything more about her until last Sunday night at Northies hotel in Cronulla.
Smith was at the packed drinking spot with fellow Eel Mark Riddell. At the other end of the bar was the cricket star Michael Clarke quaffing a few with Glenn McGrath and Brad Haddin. Clarke saw Smith and confronted him, very much annoyed.
It turns out the woman was Clarke's ex. The brief exchange went something like this:
Clarke: "What were you doing with my ex-missus?"
Smith: "What are you talking about?"
Clarke: "[The woman's name] told me she knew you."
Smith: "Oh her, yeah, I know her, so what?"
And then Smith pushed Clarke on the arm to get him out of his face. A bouncer, witnessing this, went up to Smith, whom he knew, and suggested that he should walk away. Smith agreed he did not need to talk to such a wally (but used another w-word) and left the club with Riddell.
For that 10-second incident Smith, 21, has been headline news for three days and fined $1000 by a highly sensitive Parramatta club which is reeling from a succession of dramas.
Clarke, for his part, has since been in contact with Smith, appalled that the halfback has been vilified over what was just a boozy spat between two ego-driven sportsmen.
rest http://www.smh.com.au/news/league/w...ad-of-tim-smith/2006/06/23/1150845382614.html
who can blame him for pushing?
seems Clarke was the instigator in the whole thing
Daily Telegraph has a lot to answer for