The story behind the Magpies' face-slapping

By Adrian Proszenko
Updated August 24 2014 - 12:08am, first published August 23 2014 - 10:00pm
Grand old days: Roy Masters and his Wests players at the SCG in the 1980s.
Grand old days: Roy Masters and his Wests players at the SCG in the 1980s.

Roy Masters, legend has it, is the man who introduced the infamous face-slapping rituals employed by the Western Suburbs teams of the late 1970s. This is not so.