Super League star Corey Norman has been handed an eight-match ban after it was found he "intentionally placed a hand between the buttocks of an opposing player".
Footage showed the 31-year-old former National Rugby League and Queensland State of Origin player reaching between the legs of an opponent, resulting in a lengthy ban and a £500 fine for the Grade F charge of "other contrary behaviour", the highest possible grade which carries a suspension of at least eight matches.
Norman enjoyed an 11-year career in Australia and New Zealand's NRL, and came out of retirement to sign for Toulouse Olympique and play in the Super League but this incident is a blight on his twilight rugby years. The act occurred in a match between Toulouse and Warrington last Thursday, when Norman stuck his fingers up the backside of Wolves second-row Oliver Holmes.
