The Age's 'chief football writer' has much in common with the nation's Prime Minister — she fudges, forgets and misrepresents to fit whatever point she decides is appropriate. Facts are, for these two, a mildly inconvenient irrelevancy.
Today's story in The Age (Essendon's refusal to play is making a mockery of the pre-season competition) amply serves to demonstrate.
Essendon's ongoing refusal to make itself available for the AFL's pre-season challenge is starting to make a mockery of the competition with just two weeks remaining to the first bounce.
Oh really? Refusal? It's not possible that half the senior playing list are provisionally suspended pending the outcome of the AFL Doping Tribunal hearing? And ASADA haven't been beating their collective chest to browbeat the AFL into refusing to suspend the provisional suspensions?
And the players . . .
the players, who have continued to resist all manner of AFL compromise . . .
The players who have steadfastly maintained the position that they did nothing wrong? Well, of course they should roll over and play dead and cop to a plea when they believe they're unwitting 'victims' of an offence that has not yet even been proven to have occurred.
And a lack of proof hasn't stopped —
Most football people believ[ing] those charged were doped and duped
Why bother about inconveniences like evidence and proof when most people have made up their minds?
What a sorry and pathetic excuse for a sports journalist.
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