AFL
by Simeon Thomas-Wilson
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Football is almost always about timing.
And if there's one positive from the infamous "Ramsgate" brawl it was the year - 2002.
Because former Crows football boss John Reid shudders to think what would happen if such a brawl between Power and Crows players broke out now - in 2021, an era saturated by mobile phone footage on social media.
"I'm just glad it didn't happen in the current times ⦠it would have been even bigger," Reid told The Advertiser.
"At the time it happened and it was over, there was plenty of talk about it but it wasn't like it was the third World War.