A controversial Carlton-Fremantle clash lit up an Adelaide festival of football that showcased some sublime talent and a few potty mouths
“The trait that marks out most champion teams,” The Guardian’s Jonathan Liew wrote of the Alex Ferguson era at, “is the ability to take, and take brazenly, the thing that you do not deserve.” Carlton is nowhere near a champion team. But they pinched one on the weekend and they knew it. They ran like Jerry Seinfeld with a marble rye, leaving howls of derision and allegations of a Vic-centric conspiracy in their wake.
Then it just went away. It was the un-rule. Brad Scott shrugged his shoulders, jutted his jaw and moved onto the Essendon Edge. Oh well, as you were, gents - berate to your hearts content. On Saturday, with 44 seconds left on the clock and with Fremantle having dominated clearances all afternoon, abuse was apparently unacceptable again. Whenever there’s a close finish, one now has to factor in how thin-skinned the adjudicating umpire is, and how potty mouthed their half back flankers are.
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