Collingwood

A Love Story

Paul Daley

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Victory Books
01 October 2011

True stories; Australian Rules football; Biography - Australian

A multi-generational saga of football, love, war, forgiveness and identity.

A multi-generational saga of football, love, war, forgiveness and, most critically, identity

Every year when Collingwood plays Essendon in the AFL's annual Anzac Day match, Collingwood president Eddie McGuire carries an old horseshoe into the team's changing rooms and passes it around. The players examine it as he relates the great footy club story behind it.

It's early in the twentieth century and Doc Seddon, a Collingwood player, introduces his childhood sweetheart, Louie, to his dashing team mate, Paddy Rowan. Paddy sweeps Louie off her feet and they marry. But war intervenes. Doc and Paddy go off to fight, leaving Louie to raise Paddy's baby. When Paddy is killed, Doc promises that he will always look after Paddy's wife and child. Just before the 1917 Grand Final, he sends a horseshoe back from the Somme, where he continued to serve. It brings the Magpies luck-they win.

It is a lovely story. Except, of course, that fairytales didn't come true in Collingwood, the biggest slum of Melbourne. What really happened to them is a much grittier tale.

By: Paul Daley
Imprint: Victory Books
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 384g
ISBN: 9780522858808
ISBN 10: 0522858805
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 October 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Daley is the author of Beersheba and Armageddon.