The Godfather of sports journalism joins Scott Pendlebury and Jay Clark to chat 50-years of secrets in the world of AFL - and Pendles hasn't missed the chance to ask some pressing questions of his own. 

The doyen of AFL media opens up on relationship building (10:05), the hits (11:10), the misses (4:20), his favourite generation of footy (16:30), his love for writing pure footy stories (20:00) and his advice for the next generation (21:45)

During the wide ranging chat, Mike reveals a recent catch up with Alastair Clarkson (2:50) and apologies to Pendles for a strong take he admits that he got wrong (4:20).

All that, plus, Pendles media consumption habits (5:05, the thing he hates most about footy at the moment (6:00) and his goal kicking (8:40). 

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