Getting hit in the back of the head by a flying beer bottle at Punt Rd when he was 6 ...---------------------------------------------------
WHEN David Smorgon was six, his father, who had a butcher's shop in Bridge Road, Richmond, took him to watch the Tigers at Punt Road.
The boy was hit by a beer bottle thrown from behind and his mother said he was never going to another football match. The year was 1953.
The following year, a cousin called Harry Nobic, who had a retail business in Footscray, said to the boy's father: "Why take your son to the football at Richmond? The headquarters of your business is in Footscray."
Harry Nobic was on the Bulldogs' committee. He said he would get them seats in the grandstand where the boy would never again be hit on the head by a flying beer bottle. And thus it was that seven-year-old David Smorgon was introduced to the Footscray Football Club in 1954, its one and only premiership year.
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