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It’s a brutal sport

ONE OF THE attractions of being a journalist is getting a good quote. That’s probably one of the main reasons I stayed in mainstream newspaper journalism for so long. Some of the best quotes are those swapped by reporters back in the newsroom.

In the mid-1980s I worked on Sydney’s Daily Mirror and one of my co-workers was an Under-21 player for the Sydney Roosters

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