09 February 2005
Mark Regan has been fined £500 after being found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute by a Rugby Football Union disciplinary panel.

The Leeds Tykes hooker was also ordered to pay the £250 costs of the hearing at the London Bloomsbury Holiday Inn.  

Regan had been cited for bringing the game into disrepute under RFU rule 5.12 which deals with conduct “prejudicial to the interests of the Union and the Game”.

He was cleared of a charge that he “intentionally exaggerated the effect of a stamp to his head in an attempt to persuade the referee to send off an opposition player”.

But he was found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute by stating in a television interview that he intentionally exaggerated the effect of a stamp to his head.

The charges were brought following the sending off of Northampton’s Mark Robinson in the Zurich Premiership game between the two sides at Franklin’s Gardens on January 22.

Geraint Jones QC chaired a disciplinary panel of Robert Horner, Jeff Probyn and Peter Budge.