/ 16 February 1999

HEALEY BANNED FOR STAMPING ON SA MAN

LEICESTER and England star Austin Healey was on Monday banned for 21 days by his club for stamping on former KwaZulu-Natal scrumhalf Kevin Putt in a weekend club match in Britain. Television cameras caught Healey stamping on Putt’s face, who plays for London Irish. The South African needed six stitches to a cut above his right eye. Healey, a key member of Clive Woodward’s England squad, will now miss the Calcutta Cup clash.