Read Eddie’s opinion piece ‘Sex, Sport and Safety Nets’
In it he describes a discussion with a female commentator, during which she proposed that footballers be banned from alcohol by their leagues during the course of their careers – so devastating has the abuse of alcohol been to the footballers, the game and the businesses associated with them.
The no-nonsense Kennerley’s thinking being that just about every ill associated with sportsmen’s behaviour, and you can extrapolate that out to include society’s, comes back to the abuse of alcohol.
The more you think about it, Kerri-Anne’s solution would undoubtedly cut down the number of incidents. At the very least we know that Melbourne’s CBD problems would by and large evaporate immediately.
You’re almost there Eddie!
And Kerri-Anne!
Try and think through how a fixed, sensible max BAC limit .08, enforced as a matter of the highest priority, would cut down the number of incidents whilst letting responsible drinkers get on with their lives…
