2009 Footy Almanac » Blog Archive » Review of the 2008 Footy Almanac

John Harms, Neville Turner, Bob Speechley and I were into our third bottle of shiraz over a long lunch at the Pumphouse Hotel, Fitzroy a couple of years ago when I predicted that the sport most likely to produce literary writing in the future ... a victory so satisfying that I never needed to follow football again â€" the quest had been happily completed for me at the appropriate age of nine and I was able to get on with my development unencumbered by an attachment to mass ...