You suck one lousy one ... and what do they call you?

But I digress. TFF's item last week about the outrage of South Sydney forward Sam Burgess attacking another man's genitals to further the chances of winning a football match, saw your humble correspondent accused of being engaged in ''league-bashing''.

Touchy subject: Sam Burgess had a firm grip on Will Chambers. Credit:Channel Nine

Those accusations notwithstanding, this week I cannot resist raising the subject of his teammate Jeff Lima. Last week, early in the first half of the game against Manly, Lima grabbed the right leg of his opponent Anthony Watmough – known to be carrying a strained posterior cruciate ligament on that very leg – and even though the tackle was completed, did a ''death roll''. That is, Lima gratuitously twisted his body the way a crocodile drowns its prey, so Watmough's leg and, thus, knee would twist with it.

You with me? He specifically targeted the injury of another player so as to exacerbate that injury further. His reward? Watmough limped for the rest of the match, Souths won and Lima received a very tepid one-week suspension. But here is the question. Where was the public outcry? The outrage? Is this really what sport has come to, that, apart from a few fuddy-duddies tut-tutting in the judiciary, it is quite permissible to try and MAIM an opponent?