When you come for the king, you best not miss, so they say.
Bulldogs great Luke Darcy is learning that all to well after an icy exchange with Kane Cornes that has blown up in his face.
The popular Channel 7 commentator on Friday night confronted Cornes during a live segment on Triple M’s Friday Huddle — and it got awkward.
The light-hearted interview began with questions about Nathan Brown’s dominant boxing win over the Port Adelaide great on Wednesday night.
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However, it all turned suddenly frosty when Darcy asked Cornes about being “more mean spirited and nasty to people than anyone in the history of our industry”.
The confrontation comes after a week when football media figures have traded verbal barbs following the Sunday Footy Show co-host’s “character assassination” of Channel 7 rival Trent Cotchin.
Cornes mocked the Richmond premiership captain by mimicking a TikTok clip from the Channel 7 Sport account that showed Cotchin analysing a piece of play.
The vision went viral and was slammed by Seven personality and Tigers great Matthew Richardson, who tweeted: “Taking the piss out of 2 AFL premiership captains. Bar getting lower a...
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