The Source: Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp loses Pies-Blues bet with deputy

Melbourne Lord Mayor and Collingwood tragic Sally Capp will be licking her wounds all week after losing a bet with her Carlton supporting deputy.

Collingwood fan Sally Capp has lost a bet against her Carlton supporting deputy.

Putting the squeeze on Victoria’s movers, shakers and headline makers.

Honour and good grace are not terms normally associated with footy’s greatest rivalry.

Any traditional stoush between the Blues and the Pies fans usually boasts a hint of menace, if not spitting teeth.

So fair play to Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp who honoured a bet with her deputy Nicholas Reece on the outcome of the weekend’s encounter, won by Carlton by 17 points.

The bet’s outcome involved plastering a Blues poster to the door to Cr Capp’s mayoral office.

Guests will be confronted by the poster all week. (We think it might be a good way to deter visitors and get some work done, but anyway.)

“A bet is a bet, thanks for being a good sport,’’ Cr Reece said.

But Cr Capp, a former Collingwood board member, was playing the long game.

“Pies for premiers!” she declared.

A Blues poster stuck on the door to Capp's office.

MP misses parliament for first time in 20 years

Victorian Nationals leader Peter Walsh is missing from parliament for the first time in more than two decades.

Walsh had never missed a sitting week since becoming an MP in 2002.

Then, his achilles tendon snapped earlier this month.

Walsh went under the knife overnight Monday.

“Fortunately my super surgeon Will Edwards discovered the damage wasn’t quite as extensive as feared once he opened up my ankle,” he said.

“But he has made it very clear to me – in the strongest possible terms – I will be in bed for the next two weeks minimum, and then there is a long rehab road ahead.

Walsh faces eight weeks or more in plaster. But those close to him reckon it will be tough keeping him down.

He carried a strained tendon into a recent Kokoda trek and thought an anti-inflammatory injection and some painkillers would do the trick.

A blistered Walsh made it to the end, and it seems he’s now paying the price.

Peter Walsh with surgeon Will Edwards following his operation.

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