It’s here! The AFL grand final! And I nearly forgot to write about it! Shit! If you were hanging out for the annual TPA Grand Final Primer – I apologise for keeping you waiting. That said, this won’t be worth the wait – because I am frantically penning this in between meetings, with little-to-no idea what I am actually…
Read More TPA’s Rushed AFL Grand Final Primer!A new study has revealed that the NRL and AFL Footy Show are in fact equally terrible. The study, which was conducted by international data scientists to avoid any subjective bias, found that both shows are, well, pretty fucking awful, and all of those involved in the production process should really re-consider what they’re doing with…
Read More NRL, AFL Footy Show ‘Equally Terrible’: StudyA forced conversation between two strangers queuing up for beers at a sporting fixture looks like blossoming into a genuine friendship, The Public Apology can report. The conversation, which took place between two men in the SCG Members Bar, started off well enough with a couple of obligatory comments about the game. As the line progressed, the…
Read More SCG Bar Queue Conversation Blossoms Into Unlikely FriendshipA well-meaning SCG member who invited his Adelaide friend to a Swans game will never do that again, according to reports. The two men attended a Swans v Adelaide match recently, which the Crows won in a cliff-hanger. The guest, an extremely vocal Adelaide fan, turned around to give the members stand a gleefully emphatic…
Read More SCG Member Brings Friend To Swans Game, Move BackfiresIf you cast your sporting mind* back to the 1980s and ’90s – and I often do – you might recall just how white Australia’s athletes were. Put bluntly, Australia’s professional sporting constituency was exceptionally Anglo-Saxon. Despite various waves of immigration over the years – the thousands of Chinese that came in search of gold in…
Read More The ‘white’ Australian athlete is a dying breed and that’s OK