Sport

Sunday Night

It all seems so glamourous – the flash of cameras, the glitz of the red carpet, the adulation of the fans – but peek behind the façade of professional football and you’ll find a grubby undercurrent of misogyny and male entitlement. It’s a toxic culture that infects both codes, both NRL and AFL. In this heady world, players are the alphas, and women are seen as disposable, existing only to please men. Throughout the season they’re lauded as gods, but over the summer, cashed-up and with no games to play, many footballers live to raise hell. ...