Cruellest of blows strikes Alex Johnson as Melbourne prepare for hellish run in | Craig Little

A crowd of more than 51,000 went church-service quiet as the Swan’s right knee buckled

The truth is that no football season belongs to the neat summaries of the football media. The game doesn’t change so readily and isn’t played in a tidily determined package. For the past month the game has been played more in defiance of the popular media narrative of a game in crisis rather than in thrall to it.

From Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuiti’s five goals on Friday night, to Jack Riewoldt’s 10 on Sunday and Jeremy McGovern’s match-winning one after the siren to hand Port Adelaide its second loss by under a goal in as many weeks, round 21 was another week of high drama. 

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