Football is a lot louder than it used to be. You've got people yelling at you outside the gates telling you where to pick up tickets, you've got ads blaring out from the giant tv sets, you've got spruikers selling lolly water and fridges and then there’s music playing to fill the gaps. Anzac Day is a different time and something slightly feared by the AFL. For one minute, all the crap is turned off as the crowd pause for a moment of silence to remember those who fell in foreign wars. Now, you can only spend so much of that time remembering the closing scene of Gallipoli and it's an inappropriate time to laugh at a joke you heard on Dad's Army so pretty soon your attention tends to drift and you start to realise that you just paid $5 for a cold hotdog without any sauce on it, that the navy guys get to keep their hats on or that 17 umpires seems like 16 too many. ...more