Mal Brown winning the 1969 Sandover Medal

in 1969 what many football followers regarded as the impossible happened big bad Malcolm Brown pulled his horns in and concentrated on playing football steering clear of run-ins with umpires and punch-ups with opponents and won the sand over medal it had been a close thing several times during the season Brown had to exercise full restraint to keep himself away from the league tribunal and nobody begrudged his win made all the more meritorious because his winning vote tally was made up largely of ones and twos a possible reflection of his popularity or lack of it with the umpires [Music] foreign [Music]