My Footy

Music, footy and beer A suggestion to enliven AFL grand final pre-match entertainment. Photo: Joe Armao

FEMALE players and umpires mixed it up with the blokes, dogs and kids ran around the ground during breaks, fans feasted on cold cans of beer and were entertained as much by streakers and live bands as the football.

It was about as far away as you get from the corporatised AFL as you can get, but the 10,000 people who turned up to Elsternwick Park yesterday to cheer on the musicians and radio broadcasters duking it out in the annual Community Cup proved that there is still plenty of love for the suburban game.

The match wasn’t much of a spectacle – professional sportsmen have not had much luck in crossing over into the arts, and it seems to apply the other way around.

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