THE first thing that hits you are his eyebrows.
Back in 1990, Mal Meninga sported a pair that looked like he had borrowed them from the giant slug section at Taronga Zoo. The Australian captain stands in his number three shirt and listens to hooker Benny Elias telling him he has won an award. They are in a small dressing room beneath the stands at Stade Gilbert Brutus in Perpignan after the Kangaroos had beaten France 34-10 in the second Test.
Elias, uncle of Lebanon skipper Mitchell Moses, is wearing a French shirt - an absolute pearler by the way - and mumbles a few words. He then hands his captain a chunky, distinctive trophy with a wooden base and TV camera on top. Meninga is the winner of the 1990 BBC Sports Review of the Year overseas personality award.
