Julia Gillard thought she would spring a surprise on Prince Charles by giving him a Mansfield Eagles football jumper because Charles had gone to Timbertop, a Geelong Grammar campus, which is near Mansfield:
Prince Charles given Mansfield Eagles footy jumper as gift after late dash involving Julia Gillard
THE Mansfield Football Club has made Prince Charles its number one ticket holder after Prime Minister Julia Gillard presented the Prince with a Mansfield Eagles jumper after a last-minute race to get it to London.
Upon hearing this on 3AW this morning, I put out a tweet to Mansfield Footy Club:
@MansfieldEagles Serious question. Were the Mansfield Eagles ever called the Mansfield Demons?
Channel Ten reporter Roger Oldridge replied:
@AfterGrogBlog @mansfieldeagles changed from demons in 1998 when they entered the GVFL. Shepp united were already the Demons
Thanks, Roger.
Even if Charles remembered there was such a thing as the Mansfield football club (he attended Timbertop for eight months in 1966) he would not remember the blue & gold jumper since Mansfield used to be the Mansfield Demons and wore the red & blue jumpers of Melbourne.
Gillard should have given, well, panic-rushed around the world to Charles a Mansfield Demons jumper, although Charlie was probably comfortable receiving an Eagles jumper on the same day that the Eagles pumped the Demons at Subiaco.
Wales is a total noggin. Giving him a jumper in Eagles colours would be like feeding strawberries to a pig.
Posted by: os | 05/01/2011 at 06:21 PM
if it was the PMs own idea, her team should have dissuaded her, if it was her teams idea, they should be sacked.
The couple specifically stated 'No gifts other than donations to our specific charities'
FFS. they can't even follow instructions. FFS (2)
Posted by: Ann O'Dyne | 05/03/2011 at 04:04 PM