‘Gale rejects Lethal’s ‘serfs’ claim’ online article

‘Gale rejects Lethal’s ‘serfs’ claim’ online article

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An online article on June 25 reporting comments made by Brendon Gale, Chief Executive of the AFL club Richmond on air at Melbourne radio station 3AW. He was responding to earlier comments by AFL commentator Leigh Matthews that pay claims of players against the AFL was a case of the ‘serfs fighting back’.

The article can be found at http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/117078/default.aspx

A June18, 2011, article by Jennifer Witham about the original comments and an explanation that ‘serfs’ is a medieval term used to describe the lowest group in the feudal system can be found at http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/116557/default.aspx

Staff writers of the AFL BigPond Network

25 June 2011

Witham, Jennifer , ""Serfs Hit Back" Online Article ," in Medievalism in Australian Cultural Memory, Item #395, http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/395

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