We’re the ones who don’t derive invited to the barbecues. The ones who listlessly avoid Richmond on game days. Our only escape from Aussie Rules is to leave VictoriaIt was a Sunday in April 1967 in the Sun News Pictorial’s newsroom and,like everywhere in Melbourne after a match, the talk was of football, and football,football. Journalist and foreign correspondent Douglas Wilkie had finally had enough.
He remarked to colleague Keith Dunstan: “There must be a better life than this. Couldn’t we start an anti football organisation?”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com