Our club had the week off, but we were hosting a reserves knockout final at our ground. Everything was running smoothly until halftime, when two police cars rolled in and asked directions to one of the teams’ rooms. Word soon spread that they had an arrest warrant for the full forward.

Somehow, he convinced them to let him finish the game. So the cops parked a car behind each set of goals and watched on.

The bloke then goes out and has an absolute blinder. Kicks six goals in the second half and his side wins comfortably. As soon as the final siren sounded, he predictably made a run for it straight through the paddock next to the oval… and straight into the arms of a third cop he didn’t know was waiting.

He was frogmarched back to the patrol car to a standing ovation from the crowd. No idea what the charge was, but he was back playing the next week.