Jonathan Horn looks back at the best encounters between Collingwood and Brisbane/Fitzroy ahead of the 2023 AFL grand final
Daicos had turned Mark Zanotti inside out in the first half. By the main break, Daicos had slammed on six straight and Gastev was called up. The Macedonian Marvel’s seventh and one of the best of his career came shortly after. Hemmed on the point post, Gastev slung him to ground, but the Marvel somehow defied geometry to trickle it through. “Don’t tell me he’s kicked that,” commentator Sandy Roberts cried. “I will not believe it!” “I actually apologised to Gastev,” Daicos later said.
This game was covered by Mike Coward and features in Russell Jackson’s Electrifying 80s book of the best football writing of that decade. The Roys were belted early, trailing by 45 points at one stage “The sentimental favourite of the entire football fraternity was diffident, hesitant, seemingly uncertain how to cope with match favouritism and the glare of publicity which surrounds any graduation from the chorus line to centre stage,” Coward wrote.
The majority of the resultant documentary, From the Lips of Lethal, consists of him asking, “Where’s Mal?” and, “Are you there?” to his runner. But with the game in the balance, and Jason Akermanis all at sea with a groin injury and a close checking Paul Licuria, Leigh’s squeaky voice raised a few octaves.
Peroxided, preternaturally talented and completely impossible, Akermanis wasn’t always one to follow instructions. But when it mattered most, he listened, he
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