And the committee could have come down on him like a ton of bricks.

And the committee could have come down on him like a ton of bricks. But they obviously felt they couldn't make too much of an example of him because a lot of people, mainly on Sky TV, had already judged the issue. It's grossly unfair for television to single out one player from one game and conduct a kangaroo court there and then. Sky TV's broadcast put the whole incident in the public eye, even though Goulding was formally cited after the Disciplinary Committee watched a tape of the game last Thursday when dealing with two men sent off in that match. Unfair The referee didn't see the Goulding incident and he wasn't reported. Widnes bitterly complained about the unfairness of the situation saying - quite rightly - that if incidents like that are to be pulled out you would need 26 cameras - for every player. There were 16 other games going on that day and there could have been