"Football, meat pies, kangaroos and holden cars" There was a time when we Australians had simple tastes, footballers were 'ordinary' people and social justice wasn't necessarily an idyllic concept. My question is this; what's going on with the West Coast Eagles, and why are we suddenly surprised and interested in the events that have recently unfolded, or at least been reported.
In the early 1990's they were all on the juice, but the dominant drug of choice wasn't cocaine or 'Ice', rather performance enhancing drugs - making it absolutely no surprise that Worsfold just happened to be a 'Pharmacist', no doubt the perfect choice to take over the reins a few years later.
These days however, with ridiculous salaries being thrown around to kids in their early 20's, an ability for a Football club to keep any transgressor out of jail and a high society thriving on the illegal debauchery on offer, there's really no other route for these guys to take, is there?
Recently there was a number of surveys completed in London; one which sampled bank notes for traces of Cocaine and another that sampled sewage for traces of said class A narcotic - the results were somewhat staggering, well somewhat staggering if you haven't lived or partied in London. Otherwise, they're probably not particularly startling at all, but anyway....
Over 99% of bank notes have traces of Cocaine and it's estimated that water level traces indicate that over 150,000 lines of Cocaine are consumed every day and that 20% of Londoners freely admit to having taken Cocaine. Now typically there wouldn't necessarily be a link here, but if you've lived here, in South Africa or Perth, you'd see two very prominant links; Cocaine and a shit-load of South Africans. Sure, this may seem a bit far fetched, but have a think about it for a moment; the rise of the Eagles started to coincide with the South African exodus! Am I stark-raving mad? Absolutely!
But if you're earning 100s of thousands of dollars, you only have to work a few hours a week, your employer keep you out of trouble, your union ensure that you're anonymity is kept - even if you do test positive to Class A drugs that would otherwise have every day Joe in court, and there's a three strike policy to preserve 'putting the game into disrepute', tell me you're not going to be lining up the powder and giving the white-stuff a bit of a snort?!
What's more, it's really farcical that Ben Cousins is being used as the figurehead in this 'war on drugs' in the AFL, because it's a pretty well-known fact that he's been a fan of the Bolivian Marching Powder for many years, it's only now - when the Eagles have given up trying to control or censor him - that he's being thrown to the wolves. How come we didn't see him being thrown under the bus as he was winning a Brownlow or leading the Eagles to their 2006 Premiership? Simple stuff really, it's all about business these days and damage control of the product. Too late for Benny now!
I'd hate to think what would happen if they tested sportsmen over here in London, I'm sure that most teams would struggle to field a team, but that is another story entirely!
Two words: Robbie Fowler http://youtube.com/watch?v=czc5vKu5wqg
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Add to that, Woosha was warned when he came onboard in 2001 that there was a drug culture at the club but did nothing other than ask the players "do you take drugs?".
Then he gets told that Cuz and others (Kerr, Embley, Chick, Fletcher) have a drug problem and they do nothing about it.
And when the worst of them finally becomes unmanageable, they cut him loose.
I fuckin' hate West Coast.
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