Tag: Adam Goodes
Hypocrites and Opportunists
Not to be outdone by the Greens, Victorian Trades Hall Council (the Unions) are now joining the chorus of sanctimonious types lecturing everyone else...
Bad sports
It has been widely noted over the past week that the Adam Goodes booing saga has exposed the nasty truth that the average football...
A subtle and insidious racism
On Tuesday, the Guardian's Celeste Liddle made light of Adam Goodes' "imaginary" and "invisible" spear which he threw into the "general direction of the crowd"...
Maximus Goodius Dividesus, and the Roman mob
From time to time the emperor, Caesar, deluded himself that he commanded absolute power in Rome. So too did the Senate, that patently unrepresentative...
XYZ is on the money on the Culture War
This story has been flogged far and wide, but it is worth a little more examination. The XYZ presents two articles, the first as...
AFL issues directive to social media: Stop making fun of Bronwyn...
In what has been a dramatic 24 hours, the AFL has issued a directive to social media users to stop sharing memes making fun...
On hurt feelings and vilification (a last word on the Adam...
This correspondent has had a fair bit to say on the Adam Goodes booing controversy, most of it self confessed satirical tosh designed to...
Adam Goodes, Braveheart.
So here’s my thoughts on the AFL in the light of the Adam Goodes, and now Lewis Jetta, spear throwing gesture controversy. And I...
AFL Issues dictate to fans: Judge Goodes on his skin colour,...
Football commentator Gerard Whateley has branded the booing of Adam Goodes as 'shameful', and said that he fears Goodes could be "booed into retirement."
According...
Ideological football
“The AFL (and Carlton) have a huge problem. Ninety nine thousand people at the 'G watch Real Madrid beat Man City. Just 26,000 at...