Ange Postecoglou arrives back in Melbourne in the middle of the AFL season. Steeped in two codes, how should he negotiate the “No Sherrin” rule?
Feel free to read these few words in Ange Postecoglou’s voice. Even if you don’t have any great affinity with soccer, you’ll know it. One of his achievements over these past three years with Celtic, and most recently Tottenham Hotspur, has been to regularise his Australian outlook and accent on the world football stage.His Premier League press conferences have become compulsory viewing, win, lose or draw – just like Ross Lyon’s at St Kilda. Oops, here’s the trap.
, they strongly urge non-fraternisation. Memories of AFL non-cooperation when FA was pitching to host men’s and women’s World Cups burn still.But for born-and-bred Melburnian Postecoglou, this is a bind, surely? because it made it almost impossible for London arch-rivals Arsenal to win the Premier League, and it led to a sharp exchange between him and a mouthy Spurs fan.
The fact is that below the parapets of the code wars, they get along well enough. Some visiting international stars express curiosity about the AFL, and the pro-Sherrin rule means that these instances are well ventilated.
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