The day I asked The Queen to sign my footy
During the 2000 Royal Tour, I spent days trying to get Her Majesty to sign a Western Bulldogs footy. This ran in The Age on 26th March 2000. RIP, Queen Elizabeth II.
Thursday 23rd March, 2000.
11.05am, Melbourne Airport
I arrived at Gate 39 with a Footscray football for the Queen to sign. I wasn’t expecting an audience with Her Majesty, just the opportunity to deliver the ball to her media people, and then pick up the signed pill a day or so later.
My theory you see is this. The fortunes of the Footscray (now Western …
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