When the AFL's father-son rule was introduced in the 1940s, it gave emerging players the chance to live out the ultimate lifelong dream: to play for the same beloved club as their fathers.
The inspirational memoir of the former Carlton Football Club captain who twice survived cancer, returning to the game braver and stronger after each recovery.
Finally a book whose time has come: a comprehensive and authoritative centenary history of women's Australian Rules football by the country's two foremost experts in the women's game.
Winner of the 2014 Davitt Award for Best True Crime Book and the 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a pack rape by celebrating footballers began to surface And so, as police were confiscating bedsheets from a townhouse in South Melbourne, the trial by media began.
From the signing of 'The King', Wayne Carey for a song, to the football legend's wife who proposed via a fax machine, Favourite Footy Yarns will inform, amuse and delight.
Today Australian Rules football is a multi-million-dollar business, with superstar players, high-profile presidents and enough scandals to fill a soap opera.
*Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014* The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a pack rape by celebrating footballers began to surface.
Winner of the 2014 Davitt Award for Best True Crime Book and the 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a pack rape by celebrating footballers began to surface And so, as police were confiscating bedsheets from a townhouse in South Melbourne, the trial by media began.
