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‘Rugby league saved my life’: Badger bows out with message of hope – Sydney Morning Herald
As he prepares to officiate his final match this weekend, veteran referee Gavin Badger has opened up about how rugby league saved him from a dark place.
That was the moment that prompted Badger, who will be officiating in the NRL for the final time in the Panthers-Bulldogs clash on Saturday, to speak for the first time about a burden he had been carrying from the age of 11.
That Badger is a survivor of child sex abuse.
When ‘The Badge’ looks back on a career that has spanned 18 seasons, 354 games as a referee and a further 57 as a touch judge, he is most proud of the fact he found the courage to find his voice.
“The last few years of my caree…
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