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> Click here to view president Eddie McGuire, CEO Gary Pert, Nathan Buckley and author Neridah McMullin discuss the bookCollingwood president Eddie McGuire, today, launched the children’s book ‘Side by Side: In The Beginning’, an illustrated account of the club’s earliest days.??
Author Neridah McMullin has captured many of the club’s past heroes in a story following Charlie, 8, who finds out how the club formed and learns lessons about what it means to be a Collingwood supporter.??
Set in 1916, it’s World War I and in rainy and muddy conditions, Charlie accompanies his Dad to his first ever football match where he soon realizes what it feels like to ‘belong’ and from there on Collingwood is in his heart forever.”
Click here to purchase 'Side by Side: In the beginning' from the Collingwood superstore
Nathan Buckley provided the foreward to the book.??
“To read about the Collingwood champions of the past and relive the moments in history that made the club what it is connects us all over again. Whilst looking to the future we can never lose sight of out past.
“Two great loves of my life are represented in this book. They are the game of Australian Rules football and the Collingwood Football Club and they are represented through the greatest love all, between a father and his son.”
Author Neridah McMullin and club president Eddie McGuire stand with several young Magpies in attendance at the launch.
Illustrator Ainsley Walters poses next to several of her prints, which feature throughout the book.
Each chapter is accompanied by an illustration.
