MFTCC in the sports pages

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It's not often that an article in the sports pages refers to MFTCC, but Peter Hanlon appears to be a fan. Excerpt below - an interview with a caffeine tablet. Follow the link for the full article.

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/five-observations-from-round-15-20100711-105jl.html

Five observations from ... Round 15
PETER HANLON
The Age, July 12, 2010

A quick word with ... a caffeine tablet

Gee, you've been getting some mileage lately. We've seen enough of you over the last few days to put someone to sleep! As a key player in the game, what's your take on this whole footy-uppers-downers business?

It's all a big misunderstanding. I'm supposed to be here to help people who don't have anything at stake in their working lives — doctors and nurses pulling 54-hour straight shifts in hospital emergency departments; long-haul truck drivers sharing the highways with the nation's sons and daughters. I was never intended to be abused by blokes doing life-and-death work like playing football. Frankly, it's a disgrace.

Come on, you love it. Any publicity's good publicity, right? You should be rapt — even Tony Biggs gave you a mention on Triple Rs On The Blower the other morning!

Yes, and what was his take on it? Take the mickey, that's what: "Caffeine and sleeping pills? Kindergarten rock'n'roll, kids," in that whiney, weak-as-West Coast voice he puts on.

Don't take it personally, Biggsy does that to everyone.

No, I've had enough. Nobody takes me seriously. I want to be like the other drugs — hard and edgy, and immortalised in songs by the Stones and Tom Waits and Eric Clapton, back when he could go.

There, there — you got a line in a My Friend The Chocolate Cake song once!

See! That's what I mean! How much cred is that going to get me at a WADA line-up? Charlie and Ice will laugh me out of the room!

Oh, come on, How Green Was My Valley is a great song! And when you throw in that other line near the end — "the boys are there all night, they drink until they fight" — it might be Cuzzy's soundtrack for Richmond-Sydney games! Your place in the game is secure.

Oh, the shame! I need a Valium.