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It’s the wild day of the AFL calendar – Mad Monday – and there’s a BEN-DER alert on those party animals, the Tigers.
After Richmond farewelled Ben Cousins yesterday, the players will pump up the celebrations on Mad Monday.
It was a brave last AFL game for Cousins, who racked up 21 touches while playing with a bung hamstring.
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Even if you take the Richmond Football Club’s explanation at face value, the troubled Ben Cousins’ latest flirtation with disaster proves that he still uses substances as a crutch. And he probably always will.
Following a profile on Cousins in GQ last year, I wrote that he was still in the grip of his addiction and despite all the hype about his new clean image.
He offered a throwaway remark in the interview that he could still “have a few beers” and had learned to “drink differently.” Rubbish.
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Skid says:
But when you overdose on sleeping medication (which he admitted today that he did), it clearly is about his approach to drug taking. It wasn’t a mixture of booze/caffine and sleeping pills, it was an overdose plain and simple. The fact that the drugs were legal is not the issue,… Read more »
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Jenni says:
Carl - from one Swans supporter to another, I agree with all of your comments. (On a more selfish note, couldn’t he have put himself out of commission BEFORE our game last Sunday? LOL) Read more »
The AFL and its clubs have had no shortage of moral minefields to tip-toe through this year.
From nude photos to boozy cruises to rape charges to senior coaches abusing opposition players to drug trafficking charges, the league has run the gamut of off-field issues. Or, as I like to think of it, they’re a Christmas Day scuffle away from earning their Charlie Sheen Badge.
Two incidents have dominated the airways over the past five days: The tete-a-tete between Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse and St Kilda’s Steven Milne and Richmond’s late-night hotel ruckus .
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Nigel Catchlove says:
Thanks acker. Looked at the reference and particularly enjoyed definition No 5. Ironical - just like ironic but with an -al. Read more »
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Dunno says:
Dunno .. beating your chest a lot? Read more »
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