SYDNEY: The captain of one of the main sides in the MSM national competition has sensationally quit the game over a shoulder-charge incident in one of the weekend’s most watched games.

Peter Costello, who had led the current premiership Nine Entertainment Ltd side for 11 years, ended his playing career abruptly overnight, sparing the game’s judiciary committee from having to make a finding at their scheduled meeting tonight on the incident during a clash at Canberra Airport.

Vision clearly showed Costello shoulder-charging journalist Liam Mendes from bitter cross-city rivals, News Corp Australia, in the MSM league and then standing over Mendes, almost mocking the fallen reporter for The Australian and seemingly indifferent to any damage the sickening shoulder charge might have caused.

Costello at the time quickly stated: “I did not lay a finger or a fist or anything else on him.”

But in an exclusive interview with The Bug this morning, a more contrite Costello told us: “Perhaps I’d still be playing this wonderful game if a finger or a fist had been involved in that tackle. I could have beaten the shoulder-charge rap easily then.

“Still, I had planned to hang up my playing boots later this year so ending my career a few months early is no biggie. I’m fucked if I’d give those cunts in judiciary a chance to sideline me for the best part of the season anyway.”

Costello said he had full faith in Catherine West, his replacement as captain of the Nine Entertainment Co. side, and hoped its main Sydney clubhouse, the Nine News studios, would continue to host Liberal Party fundraisers.

“And I fully expect Catherine to continue to move the club – and the game in general – in the far right direction.”

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