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Sydney Swans football fans
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football fans

Ron Huban
1999
State Library of New South Wales

 

Team Spirit

On a Friday night, late shopping night … you’d go up Smith Street, just to walk along, you’d meet everybody … and the Collingwood footballers would go along. Many occasions they’d start from Johnston Street and walk up to Laxton’s shoe shop … then they’d walk back. They had everybody following them, talking to them.

Gordon Carlyon, Collingwood Football Club secretary,
in Rob Kingston thesis, ‘VFL Football in Melbourne in the 1930s’

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