What blokes really say in the locker room, Mr Trump
For once, I really do know of that which I speak.
Peter FitzSimons is an Australian journalist and author, based in Sydney. He is also a former Wallabies player.
For once, I really do know of that which I speak.
I knew it would happen, and it didn't.
So rugby league needs a new fairy tale? Here are two teams whose run to an NRL title would have Hans Christian Andersen looking over his shoulder.
In my bones, I feel it will be ...
You will recall TFF's rant of 10 days ago that what Australia needed more of was less corporate slug-fests, awash in match-fixing, dodgy deals, bodgy people, bikies and furious factional fighting and more community sport, a la the newly formed Lane Cove Fun Run.
As if you didn't know, it is time – as the flood of muddied oafs begins to recede, and the tide of flanelled fools has not fully engulfed all – for your humble correspondent's annual look at which sporting stocks to buy, sell, and hold.
The Eddie Hayson press conference? What was that all about?
Ah, sing it, Charles Dickens, one more time for the road.
Bloody hell. Aussie Rules. Who would have thunk it?
Meanwhile, far away from match-fixing, from dodgy deals and bodgy people, well away from big-time contracts, from bitter disappointments and furious factional fighting, sport, totally removed from soul-less corporate crunching, real sport goes on . . .
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