Wigan Warriors dominated Hull KR to win their 22nd Challenge Cup in history \u2013 but the game featured an unsavoury late disciplinary moment, with Sam Walters sent off.<\/p>\n
Walters was involved in a tackle with Junior Nsemba which saw Hull KR substitute Bill Leyland dropped onto his head in pretty ugly fashion, and left Liam Moore with no choice but to brandish a straight red card.<\/p>\n
It puts Walters into the Wembley history books for all the wrong reasons, too.<\/p>\n
He becomes the first player to be sent off in a Challenge Cup final this century \u2013 and the first for well over 30 years to boot.<\/p>\n
Widnes Vikings\u2019 Richie Eyres was the last man to be given a red card in a Wembley final in the Challenge Cup. He scored a try in the defeat to none other than Wigan in the 1993 showpiece, but he was later sent off after elbowing Martin Offiah.<\/p>\n
That led to Eyres being given a six-match ban by the Rugby Football League \u2013 and there is now a strong chance that Walters could land a similar ban in length after the ugly incident at the end of the game on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
He is also just the third man to be shown a red card in the Challenge Cup final.<\/p>\n
Sid Hynes was sent off in controversial fashion in the 1971 decider after an incident involving Leigh\u2019s Alex Murphy \u2013 though Hynes always protested his innocence in the matter.<\/p>\n
But Walters\u2019 tackle was a mere disciplinary footnote in what was an otherwise near-perfect afternoon from Wigan though, who reaffirmed their status as the kings of rugby league\u2019s most famous competition.<\/p>\n
Matt Peet\u2019s side were brilliant and blew away the reigning holders in emphatic fashion, with their Bevan French gamble ultimately not needed on the afternoon.<\/p>\n
By the time he entered the field in the final quarter, Wigan were 28-4 up and had all-but won the final thanks to an imperious display from half-back Jack Farrimond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan Warriors dominated Hull KR to win their 22nd Challenge Cup in history \u2013 but the game featured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-612508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}