Australian Rules Football
VFL Premiership
- Collingwood wins the 23rd VFL Premiership: Collingwood 11.12 (78) d Richmond 7.1 (53) at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)
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“The Australian mind, I can state with authority, is easily boggled.”
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“For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football’s place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.”
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“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
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