Taione banned for 18 weeks
Sale winger Epi Taione has been banned for 18 weeks after he pleaded guilty to biting Munster and Ireland number eight Denis Leamy.
Taione was cited after Sale’s Heineken Cup defeat to Munster on January 21 and appeared before an independent disciplinary committee in London today.
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