Caroline Wilson - The Age - 26 May

SHORTLY after he was confronted two days ago by his captain Brad Johnson and the Western Bulldogs leadership group, Jason Akermanis had a second meeting and a second confrontation with the formidable Bulldogs quartet of David Smorgon, Rodney Eade, Campbell Rose and James Fantasia.

The key men who run that football club delivered a similar message to that brought home by the senior players. Akermanis was at Whitten Oval, they told him, to help the club win games of football - not to make off-field headlines and by extension create massive headaches for everyone else.

Akermanis seemed chastened and not a little shell-shocked from the events of the previous four days, which reached their zenith, for him, when he realised his house was being attacked by young men throwing eggs on Saturday night as an apparent angry response to his ''Stay in the closet'' newspaper column aimed at homosexuals playing AFL football.

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