AFL legend Leigh Matthews said he felt so “sick” and “disturbed” after watching Jack Ginnivan not receive a free kick on Sunday night that he couldn’t sleep. For more 👇
Asked how he felt when he initially saw the incident, the Australian Football Hall of Fame legend said: “I felt sick.
“Jack Ginnivan, he was victimised, I’d love to speak to Matt Stevic – I’m not saying consciously victimised – but when he saw Jack Ginnivan take possession and when he saw him being tackled, his first thought was to look at Jack Ginnivan. ‘What did he do? Did he lower his body height?’ And even if you lower your body height a fraction when you sense the tackler coming, that’s kind of automatic. But he seemed to be watching Ginnivan – not what the tackler did and that’s the fabric of our game.
“What is being done to the game and its very fabric of looking after the player with the ball is being put as a lower priority to stopping players playing for free kicks.”
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