What the hell are we doing with our best endeavours to get this right nutter off the hook.
It's not as though he's a cleanskin- cited 18 times. Repeat- 18 times. One of the very few to have a modifies rule introduced to deal with his behaviour.
This idiotic old school "what happens on the field...….." has no place in professional sport, especially when there is a serial offender on the loose.
Does it take a permanent injury eg. loss of sight before acts of total thuggery are called out for what they are?
Fages was asked a direct question by Whately but I'm disappointed that although not "covering" for Greene completely, he seemed to do his best to play down the whole thing. I would have preferred a non-commital answer like " let's just let the process run it's course".
As thing's stand, the comments by Fages has given the Greene camp ammo to work with.