{"id":94890,"date":"2021-07-03T22:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T22:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=94890"},"modified":"2021-07-04T01:58:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T01:58:16","slug":"ex-nrl-star-charged-over-hopoate-accusation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=94890","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NRL star charged over &#039;Hopoate&#039; accusation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Parramatta forward Kenny Edwards faces a two-month ban after accusations he put his finger up the backside of fellow ex-NRL player Sam Kasiano.<\/p>\n<p>The Huddersfield back-rower was placed on report during Thursday&#x27;s defeat to Catalans Dragons &#8211; but no one knew the charge until a few hours ago.<\/p>\n<p>The incident brings back memories of former Kangaroos winger <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/john-hopoate\" title=\"John Hopoate\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Hopoate<\/a>, who was suspended for 12 weeks for a series of similar incidents involving three separate North Queensland players in an NRL match in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Hopoate was playing for Wests Tigers at the time and was suspended for 12 weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"81e37fa1-e7e8-49b8-bf3f-5e26decf9c68\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/81e37fa1-e7e8-49b8-bf3f-5e26decf9c68\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Eel Edwards was charged with a Grade F charge of &#x27;other contrary behaviour&#x27; by the English judiciary overnight.<\/p>\n<p>If he is found guilty, he is likely to be outed for at least eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p>He will learn his fate in a hearing mid-week.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards was a talented forward at Parramatta, but his career was always dogged by controversy.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former Parramatta forward Kenny Edwards faces a two-month ban after accusations he put his finger up the backside of fellow ex-NRL player Sam Kasiano. The <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=94890\" title=\"Ex-NRL star charged over &#039;Hopoate&#039; accusation\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94892,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94890\/revisions\/94892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}