Australian Football League9y
'Racial abuse was a part of the game': Long looks back
THE FIRST time Michael Long was racially vilified wasn't anywhere near a football ground. It was 1988 and Long, then 18, was walking along an Adelaide street when a complete stranger, for no apparent ...
Australian Football League9y
20 years on: Long, Monkhorst reveal death threats after ugly stoush
MICHAEL Long and Damian Monkhorst have spoken of death threats as they remembered one of the most important moments in AFL history. Two decades after the landmark racial abuse incident during the ...
Australian Football League9y
We need an indigenous commissioner: Long
ESSENDON great Michael Long has put his hand up to fill the AFL Commission vacancy, saying it is time an indigenous person had a say on the game's highest governing body. The AFL is searching for a ...