Ben Flower: Every single day I regret my brutal attack on Lance Hohaia

Wigan Warriors’ shamed prop talks for the first time about his savage Grand Final blows which rocked the sport and put rugby league in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Now he’s ready to return to the Super League, after his six-month ban, promising he’s a changed man.

• Ben Flower’s brutal punch raises questions over state of rugby league

“I regret it every day,” Ben Flower says simply of the terrible violence he unleashed at the start of rugby league’s Grand Final last October. In the second minute of a clash between bitter local rivals, Wigan’s powerful prop spilled a pass near the opposition try line and was clipped by the forearm of St Helens’ Lance Hohaia. Flower reacted with clinical savagery.

His first punch knocked out Hohaia. The real damage was done in the next few shocking seconds. Crouching low over the stricken Hohaia, Flower landed an even more devastating second blow which rocked the head of his unconscious opponent. In front of 76,000 at Old Trafford and millions on television, Flower became the first man to be sent off in a Grand Final .

I hated myself for what I did. It’s brutal and it’s something you don’t do naturally. I’m not that person.

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