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September 24, 2005
A fever has gripped Melbourne. Grand Final Fever. Manning Clark famously put it on grand final morning 1981:
"many of the inhabitants of Melbourne, and indeed of the whole of Australia . . . are stricken with a strange infirmity".
Leunig
Max Piggott once wrote that:
"football made life bearable. "On one day a week football broke down class barriers . . . Football gave hope; winning WAS possible."
That was written a long time ago.The class barriers are still there with.They have reappeared with the corporate boxes for the movers and shakers in the business and political worlds.
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