Its Grand Final eve in 1935 and Toms Grandfather is taking him to Victoria Park to watch footy training for the fi rst timea rite of passage for every Collingwood supporter. Its packed with barrackers and Tommy breathes in the strong smell of liniment and mudthe smell of football. As soon as he sees the players, his aching hunger is replaced with his love for Collingwood. A passion which keeps him full for ever more. In the worst depression Australia had ever seen, the Great Depression of the 1920s, Collingwood Football Club gave the hungry and unemployed pride where there was none and hope in the bleakest of times.