Friday essay: love hurts – on a life of sports fandom
- Written by Sally Breen, Senior Lecturer in Writing and Publishing, Griffith University
Lleyton Hewitt in 2004. No one who has ever watched Lleyton play one of his epic matches comes out a hater. DEAN LEWINS/AAP
When you grow up with no books in the house except maybe the full Readers Digest set of Catherine Cooksons and Bert Ryan’s Guide to Fishing you worship other heroes. The great battles in life are not going down in drama...
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