With little prompting, Jackson launches into an anti-AFL monologue. (For the sake of decorum, we've replaced a particular expletive with the Alf Stewart refrain: 'flamin''.)

However, Jackson eventually agrees to share his views on the game.

And he does, but suggests treading carefully because Jackson isn't exactly enamoured with the AFL or the modern game.įrom the outset it feels like the telephone conversation could end at any moment. He says 'The Buzz' (Bosustow) would have a number for Jackson. (At the time, Jackson angrily dismissed Read's claims as 'fairytales' and demanded an apology from Nine.)Ĭapper asks: 'Why do you want to speak to Jacko when you could speak to 'The Wiz'? I'm much better looking, more intelligent and I've got a much bigger fan base.' They do up to 70 shows a year at football clubs around the country.Ĭapper doesn't have a contact number for Jackson, who he says 'changes his phone number more than he changes his jocks'.Ĭapper also jokes that Jackson has been in hiding on the Gold Coast since October, when the late criminal Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read – another former roadshow colleague – mentioned Jackson's name during an alleged murder confession in his final interview on Nine's Sixty Minutes. The fellow 'fool forward' – that's the title of Capper's 2005 autobiography – has for years performed with Jackson and former Carlton star Peter Bosustow in a comedy roadshow. Jackson and his four former AFL/VFL clubs (Richmond, Melbourne, St Kilda and Geelong) haven't remained in contact – understandable given their testy relationships – but a call to Warwick Capper provides the breakthrough. Just making contact with the elusive 54-year-old required some digging, let alone persuading him to agree to an interview, and then the interview itself.īut the effort was worth it, resulting in a provocative, always entertaining chat that left a lingering feeling of what-the-hell-was-that?įew would expect anything less from Jackson, a self-styled former footballer, singer, celebrity boxer, TV ad sensation, actor and raconteur. So it's probably fitting that the task of interviewing the former clown prince of football should also prove challenging. IN A TURBULENT career that spanned four clubs in little more than six seasons, Mark 'Jacko' Jackson often found trouble because he challenged authority.

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