Samoa hero Stephen Crichton’s match-winning drop goal was a career first - as he’d been banned from even attempting them with his club.
The Penrith star iced a pressure 84th-minute kick in Golden Point extra-time to leave World Cup semi-final opponents England broken. It put tier-two Samoa - the tiny nation of just 200,000 people - into a first-ever World Cup final. But Crichton, 22, admitted: “I’ve never hit one before.
“I was zero from four (in the NRL)! The Penrith boys never let me do it again. But hopefully, the boys are watching and I get my licence back! I thought I hit it short. But just watching the ref and seeing what he was going to do I knew and then all the emotion hit me. I got emotional then as it takes a lot to put our little country on the map. I’m really proud of the boys.”
