Three games have already been delayed or postponed this season due to extreme weather
“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.”
Western
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?