You have all heard of Australian Rules Football, right? No? OMG read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_rules. I am now converted to this as a spectator sport partially because in Victoria, there isn’t a great deal of alternative action, but mainly as it makes soccer look like street theatre. The players are real sportsmen and not prima donnas from RADA.

Last week we went to see the local club, who play in the VFL (this is the state league, second only to the AFL: the national league). It was cold and wet, and Sandringham Zebras lost…