. . . in a well-orchestrated media event, Zorba Peters celebrated his 100th birthday, outliving the club he destroyed.
He was surrounded by Penn friends, and a bevy of security guards, as he was wheeled into Brookvale Park, once a fortress and now a burial ground, to select a plot next to his mentor Bozo Fulton.
Some ageing fans of the former Manly Sea Eagles heckled the 300kg blob, still angry at the demise of the once great club, which drew a typical defiant reaction from the 'great man': "Let them eat cake!....that is, if there is any left over when I'm finished with it."