Farewell to four-time AFL premiership-winning Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson

A little bit of romance died on Saturday afternoon at the MCG and a bit of me with it.

Alastair Clarkson has coached Hawthorn for the last time. 

I grew up as a mad Hawthorn supporter from the early 1970s.

When you have followed a football team as long as I have, you get very used to the idea that…