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Electrifying 80s, footy's outrageous decade in the words of its best writers, edited by Russell Jackson

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Electrifying 80s

edited by Russell Jackson

footy's outrageous decade in the words of its best writers

All the outsized characters and eye-popping events of a colourful football decade are brought back to life in the words of football writers including Mike Sheahan, Trevor Grant, Martin Flanagan, Garrie Hutchinson, Scot Palmer, Garry Linnell and Caroline Wilson. If the action on the field was memorable, so too was the writing of a richly talented and innovative generation of sports journalists. Trawling through a decade of the best writing in the major Melbourne newspapers, editor Russell Jackson has collected the profiles, match reports, columns and feature articles that explain one of the most eventual 10-year stretches in AFL history. Moving from the boardrooms of a financially stricken game, to the windswept terraces of the suburban stadiums which still endured, and into the middle of the ground among a host of all-time greats, readers will delight in the crunching tackles, soaring marks and shocking antics

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Electrifying eighties