Potential financial fallout of Israel Folau case brought into sharp focus | Matt Cleary

The first sponsor has pulled the plug on the Wallabies star. How many more will follow suit?In March of 2014 the Los Angeles Dodgers played the Arizona Diamondbacks in a Major League Baseball match at the Sydney Cricket Ground. To promote the event, the SCG Trust asked regular tenants of their greater sports precinct – Sydney Swans, NSW Waratahs, Sydney FC, Sydney Roosters – to provide a high-profile player for a photograph with Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw and Diamondbacks first baseman Paul Goldschmidt. It would be dubbed “the best of the best”.The Swans sent their champion Adam Goodes. T…