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The persecution of Robert Muir is the story football doesn’t want to hear – ABC News
A decade-long campaign of racial abuse pushed St Kilda’s 1970s star Robert Muir to the point of despair. Russell Jackson spoke to the man who football wiped from its Indigenous history.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article contains images and names of people who have died.
The first thing he wants you to know is that his name is Robert Muir.
He accepts that life as a professional footballer at St Kilda earned him no privileges, but he will no longer allow it to deny him his name.
“I’m sick of people being frightened to ask for an autograph or talk to me,” Muir says.
“I want my grandkids to be proud of me. I want them to say, ‘…
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