Jackson Irvine

Last night, my cousin posted like a memory on Instagram of a festival that we went to in like 2012 or something.

So I was about 19 and it was like up to your knees in mud in Scotland, like at this music festival in the summer.

But I looked at the outfit and it was an absolute shock.

I was wearing like these skinny jeans with like this leopard print, like leopard lined leather like coat thing, like...

I don't know.

With a cat eye, it was a shocker.

And even my wife was like, oof.

I think she's glad she didn't meet me then.

Yeah, so I grew up in the southeast in Listerfield, just like at the bottom of Listerfield, Park Lake, kind of around there.

And yeah, I grew up the first few years in Roeville and then we moved out there.

And yeah, it was a great place to grow up, loads of space and everything.

I don't know it was yeah I was I often reflect on my childhood now that I live in an extremely urban area you know I live in the heart of the city like in where there's very little space and you take for granted how how I grew up in that sense with with yeah with all of that and um but no it was it was amazing it was there was not a whole lot of football around me at that time but um you know I kind of made my way into those communities mostly through through my family

I do and still do.

I am a Collingwood fan.

Always have been.

My family is not AFL really at all.

I have a few cousins that are Swans fans.

But I don't even remember how.

I think it was probably the standard.

Probably my best friend at kindergarten went for Collingwood and I said, yeah, I like them too.