The Worst of Perth takes a lash at Melbourne's recent Festival of Barassi:
I wonder whether the ludicrous Melbourne press coverage of a 72 Year Old Ron Barassi making a dickhead of himself contributed to Operation Overkill here in Perth.
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I lived on Fitzroy Street for 6 months long ago, but never saw anything as good as an old fool risking his life for some undeserving moles.
Posted by: The Worst of Perth | 06 January 2009 at 17:10
From that photo, I presume Tess will appear in Underbelly II as Alan Didak's love interest.
Posted by: m0nty | 06 January 2009 at 17:49
Ron was just living oldskool values as if they were still valid today.
I guess that makes him a dumbass. But jeez, plonker? Would anyone who knows anything – even the tiniest bit – about footy mention Barassi and plonker in the same sentence? The man is all modesty and class.
Like the old Parisian in, um, Paris who tried to stop some Moroccan louts breaking parking machines for their contents who almost got a screwdriver thru the heart for his trouble. I read that on Tim Blair's site so it must be true.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 12 January 2009 at 13:09
You're right, Biggy, I take it all back.
Posted by: Tony Tea | 13 January 2009 at 13:34
Hay? Take what back? Didn't you just provide a link with no opinion?
You are a nigma, wrapped inside a secret, wrapped inside some Christmas wrapping.
As far as I can tell from the footage, Ron ran a loooong way to get to the melee. Or *someone* ran a long way. And he was running at a fair old pace for a 72 year old. Flat knacker, as Shaun Tait would say.
I fear I've got the protagonists and victim mixed up. I can't quite make sense of it.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 13 January 2009 at 14:06
Please leave me out of this.
Posted by: Phat Loooong Ngeun | 13 January 2009 at 14:09
I still take back my no opinion.
Posted by: Tony Tea | 13 January 2009 at 14:51
fanatic=moron
and
Good Samaritan=eejit
after
that upstanding citizen was shot dead saving a pole-dancer from her 8am crim pickup on King St Melbourne last year.
Blogger On A Cast Iron Balcony has just posted Very Astutely on Mrs.Barrassi. Well worth a visit.
Posted by: Ann oDyne | 23 January 2009 at 10:10
Brownie
Can't say I agree with Helen's post.
Yes, there have been examples numerous of footballers behaving like cockheads.
But, there have been examples way more numerous of young blokes behaving like cockheads.
The problem is not footballers per se - it's alcohol.
Wherever there are gross bad manners you can bet there is a guts full of piss.
Barass was a dick for the way he got involved in the fracas, and I'll bet you London to a brick he'd had a few. His intent was fine, just that, at 72, he should know better than to run through a crowd to get involved in someone else's scrap. Call the cops, calmly intervene, but for schmuck's sake don't charge in like a show-off teenager on cheap bourbon.
Also, if you took a cross section of all league footballers, a very great majority of them would look to do the right thing. I'd back a league footballer to keep his shit together way before I'd back a bunch of yobbos getting a skinful at the Burvale Hotel (or a bunch of Serbs/Croatians/Bosnians ate the tennis).
Posted by: Tony Tea | 24 January 2009 at 18:10