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With friends like Demetriou, no wonder Eddie’s cooked

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Most of Crown’s (surviving) directors will sensibly spend the next few weeks in witness protection.

But Andrew Demetriou was already doing the rounds on Wednesday in defence of Eddie McGuire, the just-departed Collingwood Football Club president who, Demetriou revealed, had once offered him the Magpies CEO job (“He must have seen something in me,” a seemingly still flattered Demetriou told SEN’s Gerald Whateley).

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Myriam Robin is Rear Window editor based in the Melbourne newsroom. A Rear Window columnist since 2017, she previously reported on financial markets and media. Connect with Myriam on Twitter. Email Myriam at myriam.robin@afr.com

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