The AFL Player Spectator: Footy Fans Against Sexual Assault

Props to the Football Fans Against Sexual Assault for their fine work in raising public awareness in this issue. They also provide a comprehensive media log of reportage about rape and other sexual crimes involving both AFL and NRL (ie rugby league) players.

Please note that we have moved to a RED threat level due to this weekend's Wizard Cup grand final. This means we can expect large numbers of drunk and possibly drug-affected footballers (and their hangers-on and wannabees) in public places. With the football season proper still some weeks away, the risks of bashings and rapes reaches its zenith.

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Tags: footy, rape

Labels: footy, rape

Mission

To balance the undue adulation of AFL players through scrutiny of their negative off-field behaviour.

Rationale

I live in football town, a hundred metres from the hallowed 'G. The accelerating deterioration of player standards off-field has corresponded with a massive rise in their status and prestige. Coccooned within the cult of celebrity and a fawning media, these favoured sons of my city live in a moral bubble divorced from reality.

Footballers are not bad and stupid per se: the sinister mix of tribalism and commercialism that permeates their industry shamelessly exploits these often uneducated young men for its own ends.

These pages serve to chronicle the inevitable fall-out from too much easy money and fame too quickly as a reminder that all-too-often, these heroes have feet of clay.

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Hall of Shame

Gary Ablett. The man they called God. Drugs, death and Christianity.

Heath Culpitt. The Culpritt. Rape evidence just plain vanished!

Karl Norman. The Pin-Up Boy. Theft, drugs and property damage.

Laurence Angwin. Known as Moses. Sacked druggie and tattle-tale.

Wayne Carey. The King. Noted ladies' man, team-mate and uncle.

Ben Cousins. The Speedster. Full o' beans. "Run, Benny, Run!"

Michael Gardiner. This Bad Boy wrote off more than just his car.

Daniel Kerr. "Special K". Assault, drugs, fraud and bad company.

Alan Didak. The Gun. Strip clubs, bikies plus one Hell of a Ride.

Cast of the Footy Show. Puerile, hateful and egotistical sell-outs.

Don't like what you're reading here? Visit The Speccy's counter-blog: Speccy Sux.

Wellwishes

Shae Ramsay:"judgeing by what u had to say proves that your no better than reporters"

Anonymous Supporter:"ur a wanker, wanker"

Secret Admirer:"get over youself and degrading others when your opinion means shit cause your uneducated on the subject!"

DannyBoy:"Mate, you are a bit of a tool aren't you? You seem to take a lot of perverse pleasure in reporting these stories."

Hormel:"u r jealous that u r not one u piece of shit scumbag. say it to their faces u gutless tosser"

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Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Footy Fans Against Sexual Assault

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