“It’s hard to get caught in a lie,” Rachel Menken says to Don Draper in one of the early episodes of Mad Men. “It wasn’t a lie,” Don replies. “It was ineptitude with insufficient cover.” Oscar Allen’s press conference during the week said a lot about the football landscape – the money, the media, the managers, the mangled English.
As he spoke, West Coast Eagles Head of Football John Worsfold stood smirking within spoiling distance – part affable pharmacist, part hired hitman. Allen was “incredibly remorseful”. He was “quite embarrassed and ashamed”. He “owned this”. Perhaps most worryingly, Allen said it had been “a great learning for me.”
