Collingwood a love story / Paul Daley.
A multi-generational saga of football, love, war, forgiveness and, most critically, identityEvery year when Collingwood plays Essendon in the AFL?s annual Anzac Day match, Collingwood president Eddie McGuire carries an old horseshoe into the team?s changing rooms and passes it around. The players ex...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Carlton, Vic. :
Melbourne University Pub.,
2011.
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| Summary: | A multi-generational saga of football, love, war, forgiveness and, most critically, identityEvery year when Collingwood plays Essendon in the AFL?s annual Anzac Day match, Collingwood president Eddie McGuire carries an old horseshoe into the team?s changing rooms and passes it around. The players examine it as he relates the great footy club story behind it. It?s early in the twentieth century and Doc Seddon, a Collingwood player, introduces his childhood sweetheart, Louie, to his dashing team mate, Paddy Rowan. Paddy sweeps Louie off her feet and they marry. But war intervenes. Doc and Pad. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 0522860451 9780522860450 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 25, 2019). |