News.com 9.5.2014
YOU would like Steve Matai more if you saw him hug his brother.
Watching the Manly enforcer whisper "I love you" and then, not sure the message has got through, squeeze harder again. Big brother loves the contact.
And given a serious disability has not only rendered him mute since birth, but unable to comprehend much of the world, it is the only communication they have ever known.
"And Maika, I know he loves our hugs," Matai says. "So I give him plenty."
"Also, if you're smiling, he seems to know you're happy. And that makes him happy too. So easy, I'm always smiling at him."
If you want to keep hating Stephen 'Skivi' Matai, look away now. For rugby league needs its villains, right?
And who...