Tram Town
Saturday, August 06, 2005
Category: Football This is a [clickable] picture of Melbourne taken from the grandstand at the Port Melbourne football ground. None of the buildings in the background resemble any particular consumer product (certainly there are no mobile phones) though I suspect Freud may have had a field day with some of them.On this occasion Port beat Coburg well and truly. You can see (if you squint enough) an orange maggot just above those rail-pushers behind the cyclone wire fence. These guys are well positioned to spit on the umps at the end of the game. The true ump haters are in the stand. You should have heard the language coming out of them during the game. One of the more surprising incidents in this game came when Port player LaCroix (the radio guys' attempts to pronounce this name were interesting - they settled on "the frenchman") got a free kick and one of the Coburg runners ran between LaCroix and the man on the mark delivering a 50 metre penalty and an easy goal to Garlic Boy. The oval has had naming rights purchased by the Tokyo Electro Acoustic Company and is generally known as the TEAC. This game was played a little earlier than most other Sat'dy arvo games because of television demands (if the picture was good enough you would be able to see Phill Cleary's mug in the squashed Ned Kelly device to the left on the other side of the ground). As a result of this early start we managed to get home to a local game. No names here but the skills didn't even go close to the Borough-Burger game. I suspect the local team selection committee bases many of its decisions on which players are up for parole this week. |
