August 3, 1997: Why Darrell Trindall punched a spectator

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In the Sunday paper 25 years ago, South Sydney’s Darrell Trindall explained why he punched a man in the grandstand at Kogarah Oval.

“These three blokes were standing at the tunnel and one of them shouted out ‘Tricky, you black c—-, you want me ear?’,” Trindall told Danny Weidler.

(This was a reference to Trindall having part his his ear bitten off in a ba…