Saturday brought the battle for the footy championship, featuring the West Coast Eagles and the Sydney Swans. Much was said about the conspicuous absence of any Victorian teams from this year's final. After all, the Australian Football League used to be known as the Victorian Football League. Times they are a changin'. . . Almost 100,000 people jammed into the MCG for the final. We could hear the crowd from our apartment, but watched the game with Tony at the London Hotel - a Richmond landmark popular with the footy crowd. The game was a close one that came down to the wire. The Swans took the win after a highly improbable mark in the last few seconds deprived the Eagles of a game winning opportunity, enabling the Swans to celebrate their first championship win since 1933 (back then they were still in South Melbourne). The poor Eagles fans had plenty of time to deal with defeat during the 45 hour bus ride back to West Australia.
It was quite an experience - next year we might have to go for seats in the MCG.
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