Eddie McGuire: only a fool feeds the woke beast and thinks it will not devour him

Collingwood Football Club President Eddie McGuire played the woke game for years but he could not outrun it.

Yesterday he was forced to quit by the very people he spent much of his 22-year tenure trying so hard to impress – not the footy fans, but the woke social justice worriers.

It was telling that in his final, teary speech as club president, McGuire listed numerous achievements, not one of which related to the actual game of football.

Rather than celebrate Collingwood’s glorious 2010 premiership – played in front of nearly 100,000 frenzied fans at the MCG — he boasted about the women’s game played last Saturday to promote “gay pride”.

He used his last press conference as President to reminisce about…