“This job changes you,” Chris Scott tells author Anson Cameron in his book, Neil Balme: A Tale of Two Men. “It has the real potential to negatively affect your life. Neil used to say to me, ‘Don’t let this turn you into a maniac.’ I mean, I respect Bomber as a coach. But what did it do to him?”
The book is full of fantastic little nuggets like that. Nathan Buckley’s thoughts on Mick Malthouse warrants its own column. So does Cameron’s sketch of Eddie McGuire: “A man who can scan a room and rank everyone it in from greatest to least before he blinks, a mix of blokeish bonhomie and clear analytical smarts, a man to be reckoned with.”
