A Collingwood fan who threw the ball away from Essendon’s Kyle Langford during the AFL’s blockbuster Anzac Day match is unapologetic, saying it was simple gamesmanship designed to help his beloved Magpies.
Diehard Magpies fan Josh Hodgson said he caught the football without thinking when it went over the fence after a free kick was paid to Essendon inside its attacking 50 at the MCG on Tuesday.“It was a bit of a shit free kick, but anyway it got paid,” Hodgson said. “[Langford] sort of looked at me and I looked at him, and I wasn’t going to give it back to him. I was going to wait for the Collingwood boys to get back.
Hodgson, a Collingwood member from Ringwood who tries to attend every home and away game, also gestured “up yours” to Langford after he threw the ball away. He said he was partly trying to get into Essendon’s leading goalkicker’s head, but conceded it didn’t work.Hodgson, 22, also said he was trying to get the crowd into the match, and he liked Langford giving it back by pointing at him and celebrating the goal after the incident.
Despite Langford’s boundary line goal and the Bombers pulling away to a 28-point three-quarter time lead, Collingwood stormed back in the last quarter to winHodgson said he never gave up on the Magpies, and was “going nuts” after the final siren.
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