Alastair Clarkson runs eight or nine kilometres through bayside Melbourne in the early hours of every Wednesday, alongside his friends Mark Brayshaw, Ben Crowe, Andrew Grant and Damien Hardwick. The AFL super coach, who by dusk on Saturday could sit alongside modern-day greats Tom Hafey, David Parkin, Kevin Sheedy and Leigh Matthews with a fourth premiership, never stops moving forward but it was a journey he outlined to his running group on Christmas Eve last year that underlines the best of the man and what sporting success can achieve. Clarkson explained he was spending the day before Christmas travelling to Gippsland to visit a man whose eyes had opened the previous day for the first...
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