Time to get real with scourge of fakers

“CAUSE in your mind it’s lyin’ season,” funkster Alexander O’Neal once insisted, by way of alleging that his baby was, to his mind at least, a fake.

It’s a sentiment that sports fans of all codes have often shared since.

Experience, cleverness, gamesmanship, cheating, simulation, faking… whatever you like to call it, it was in the spotlight this week.