Women's game well placed to produce the AFL's next great entertainer | Craig Little

Like your AFL football fast, skilful and expressive? Then look no further than the inaugural women’s league, to be showcased in an exhibition game next weekendP.T. Barnum, a man who knew a thing or two about putting on a show, once said “clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung”. For football in the 1980s the show seemed to be hung on characters and showmen – from the unhinged antics of Mark Jackson through to Dermott Brereton’s parody of every rock-star swagger from Elvis to Jagger. Like...

Read article

7 years ago, The Guardian

Subscribe for alerts

Subscribe to alerts and you'll receive top stories straight to your inbox.

Get top AFL stories in your inbox every morning Subscribe for alerts