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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Nick Scully as told to Katie Cunningham

The kindness of strangers: After my wife died, a football club made an extraordinary gesture

Archival image of men playing Aussie rules, leaping for the ball with colourful graphics overlaid
‘No football club gets everything right but clearly St Mary’s are trying,’ Nick Scully says. Composite: Guardian Design/Alamy

Footy clubs, and the AFL specifically, have a lot to answer for in terms of sexism. I’ve been a part of them for a lot of my life and have been disappointed by their behaviours more than once.

When we lived in Melbourne many years ago, my son played a couple of seasons for St Mary’s Greensborough. Unfortunately for him, I secured a job in central Queensland and moved the family north.

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