King NONG

I dare say almost everyone who watches TV in Australia knows of Eddie McGuire (or Eddie 'Everywhere' as he is nick-named). In his capacity as President of the Collingwood football club (AFL), last Friday week he was the white knight who rode in to tell the world how he would not stand idly by to allow a thirteen year-old Magpie supporter escape some form of sanction for having made a nasty racist comment to Sydney Swans' indigenous champion Adam Goodes.

Then, mid-way through last week it was Eddie himself squirming under the spot-light  for having made a similar questionable remark about Goodes on his own morning radio show! Both objectionable remarks involved association with simians. If anyone were looking for an order of magnitude to describe the events ... one would struggle to avoid nominating Eddie's King Kong reference as the bigger of the two mis-demeanours.

Adam Goodes' understandable anguish over these events apart ... I'm troubled by how anyone who has put themselves in the prominent public position Mr. McQuire occupies, could allow the albeit momentary brain-fade which resulted in his regrettable smart-arse 'King Kong' quip on a popular radio broadcast.

In my view, there's no possible excuse.