There’s no need to bemoan a sport gone soft, just reflect on what it means to an Indigenous footballer
It’s been coming for nine months
But what happened at the MCG last Sunday was more complicated than good, clean fandom. It was a particularly spiteful beginning to the Magpies v Swans game and the Collingwood crowd was riled up. At first, the booing ofseemed benign. They booed the umpires, they booed Tom Papley and they booed Franklin. It was puerile and it was tedious, but it wasn’t all that unusual. In recent years, duckers, hitmen, smart arses, Christians and No 1 draft picks have all been booed.
Maybe it was resentment: “He gets paid obscene money, he has a beautiful wife, he’s everything I’m not. Let’s bring him down a peg or two.”
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