Tony Zappia (Makin, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My colleague from Melbourne Ports says it is great. Indeed it is. In fact, it is sometimes more noticeable than what you will see at the elite level, where it is accepted that footballers are playing for a national side and you tend to see them win and lose and you watch them on television. When you go out and see them at the local level, you get more parochial and passionate about them because the chances are that you know many of the players personally, you know the families personally and each of them knows each other personally. When you get local clubs playing each other, that sense of rivalry is even greater, as it will be this Saturday when Tea Tree Gully plays Modbury in the C-grade division of the local league.

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