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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017
The opening match of the 1984 season between Parkside and North Footscray
North Footscray 22.9 (141) d. Parkside 12.10 (82)
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Magpie Mayhem
“Injury man has ended the football career of Parkside’s “Big Little Man,” Brian Clark.
The 31-year-old defender has had complicated surgery on his right thumb and he has been told he
can forget about football for the rest of this season.
The operation involved the wiring of two bones and a skin graft. Clark was injured in a FDFL match at
Deer Parl on 2 June. Besides a compound dislocation a bone in his thumb was broken in two places.
“I doubt if I will play football again,” Clark said. “It is too early to say for sure so I will postpone a final
decision about my future until next year.”
Clark is a 180 cm, 78 kg full-back, who, for 15 years, has had to battle against taller and heavier
opponents week after week and beaten most of them. That’s why Parkside call him their “big little
man.”
A veteran of 290 games, Clark was Parkside’s 1981 premiership full-back and played in FDFL grand
finals of 1970 and 1983.
A fully qualified pharmacist, Clark is manager of Pepin’s Highpoint West Pharmacy in Maribyrnong.”
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Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider
