Three games have already been delayed or postponed this season due to extreme weather
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“For me, it’s not about football. It’s about player welfare. Seeing the levels of smoke, myself breathing it in while I’m just standing here …. If you’ve got a referee coming up to me saying ‘keep an eye on the ones who have asthma’, that’s when I don’t want us to play.”
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Sydney Wanderers head coach Dean Heffernan did not mince his words after his side’s round seven match against Canberra United. His comments reflect a question that has become more common – and more urgent – among Australia’s sporting community as the country’s bushfire crisis worsens: how bad must things get before something is done?