The drinks are on champagne Dan
Gone fishing
Dan Carter is no longer craving coffees in France after getting a taste of the good stuff, with the All Blacks legend sharing a snap of him attempting to pour a humungous bottle of champagne.
Carter celebrated a birthday bash with fellow Kiwi Racing 92 team-mate Chris Masoe by pouring a 15-litre bottle of Nebuchadnezzar, which is equivalent to 20 standard champagne bottles. Good on him. City last weekend, with the floodlights going out to leave fans in the dark.
Sunderland led 1-0 when there was a power cut early in the second half, which enraged the blinking locals because they hadn’t seen their team claim a league victory at home up to then.
Football fans are used to gloom in the the north east of England, so they saw the funny side and pulled their phones out in a desperate bid to light up the stadium. It seemed to work, with play resuming 10 minutes later once the floodlights were switched on again, as Sunderland roared to a 3-0 win. Australian league players are supposed to be hard nuts to crack and strong in the tackle, so you can imagine how embarrassed Penrith Panthers hooker Peter Wallace is feeling after a fishing injury tied him in knots.
Wallace was caught on the rocks and sliced the tendons in his middle and ring fingers after slipping and landing on oyster shells. Richard Kahui and Chiefs No 8 Michael Leitch have been training in blizzards, building snowmen and hurling snowballs at one and other.