My favourite game: Geelong v St Kilda – 2009 AFL grand final | Jonathan Horn
There have been better grand finals involving more accomplished teams, but 2009 encapsulated everything that is brutal, cruel, sublime and unique about this sportSome grand finals are jolly romps. Some are stinkers. Some are knife fights. The 2009 version was no sane person’s idea of a pleasant afternoon’s entertainment. Its defining images are mostly messy – toe pokes, goal-umpiring howlers, point blank misses, pissing rain. It was a freezing, excruciating, buttock-clenching day. It was raw, pitiless,...