Adelaide coach killed, son charged
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PHIL Walsh, the coach of Australian Rules football team Adelaide Crows, was stabbed to death and his son charged with his murder yesterday, sending shockwaves through the country’s sporting community.
Police and ambulance crews were called to Walsh’s Adelaide home at 2am yesterday and found the 55-year-old coach had suffered multiple knife wounds after a dispute with his son.
Paramedics attempted to resuscitate Walsh but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Walsh’s son Cy, 26, was charged with murder after being arrested at a friend’s house and detained for psychological assessment.
Police said the son lived with his parents. Walsh’s wife also suffered a “non-life threatening” leg injury in the incident.
Australian Rules football, the country’s high-contact indigenous sport, is hugely popular in the nation’s southern states.
Huge crowds attend matches in the top-flight Australian Football League which, in local terms, commands a following similar to Europe’s top soccer leagues and the NFL in the US.
Born in a country town in southern Victoria state, Walsh played 122 games for three elite football teams before moving into coaching in the 1990s.
He took over as head coach of the Crows during the offseason, his first appointment as a head coach. Having played and coached in several Australian states, his death sent tremors across the country.
“Tragic day for Crows supporters and sport in general ... A tragedy that people in Adelaide woke up to this morning,” former Adelaide Crows chairman Bill Sanders said.
The news of his death stunned the football-mad capital of South Australia state, where crowds of 50,000 regularly pack out the Adelaide Oval to watch the Crows, back-to-back champions in 1997-98.
The club said it was “devastated” by Walsh’s death.
The AFL cancelled their game against Geelong Cats tomorrow after talking both clubs.
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