Archive for August, 2014
Anthony Rock could’ve been rolled
Anthony Rock is lucky to be alive. It was cautious anticipation that saved him. It was timing and speed. Rock was barely a teenager. Everything he achieved in football and life might never have happened.
In 1984, Rock was meters away from being run over on Chapman Avenue in Glenroy. My mum, Patsy was driving.
Hopeless on the punt – Fools Die
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I’ll show you a loser, show me a hero and I’ll show you a corpse – Alfred Gronevelt