Country football: Australian folklore's dying giant

By Timothy Boyle
Updated May 21 2018 - 1:26pm, first published 1:10pm

Country football is a dying giant of Australian folklore. Dozens of towns in western Victoria are struggling to preserve their sporting clubs, which, since the decline of the church, are standing as the last institutions between a community’s living identity, and history.

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