Mark ‘Jacko’ Jackson’s explosive Open Mike interview didn’t win him many friends on social media
MARK “Jacko” Jackson’s explosive TV interview - complete with an extraordinary attack on footy and Mike Sheahan - has shocked AFL stars, many hitting back at the controversial ex-player.
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Mark “Jacko” Jackson appears on Mike Sheahan’s TV show Open Mike
Jacko launches verbal attack, telling Sheahan he writes ‘filth’ adding ‘I hope you get cancer’
Jacko attacks women’s role in footy
Calls modern footballers ‘false-alarmers and impostors’
AFL stars fire back on Twitter
MARK “Jacko” Jackson’s explosive interview on TV show Open Mike last night, where he launched an extraordinary attack on the game and footy journalist Mike Sheahn, has fired-up many AFL players who took to social media to have their say.
Most players were shocked after Jackson launched an incredible verbal barrage on the former Herald Sun chief football reporter in one of the most extraordinary and painful footy interviews televised.
The outspoken former Melbourne, St Kilda and Geelong star said he has hated Sheahan for more than 30 years.
He told Sheahan immediately as the cameras started rolling that he “hated him” which set the tone for the confrontational interview.
Jackson claimed the former Herald Sun chief football writer had ended too many careers and that he’d been waiting for years for the opportunity to have a crack at the veteran journalist.
Jackson’s father George died the night the colourful character was suspended for eight matches for a hit he landed on Leigh Matthews in 1985.
Jackson insinuated the veteran scribe was partly to blame for his death because of the “stress” his reporting caused after the heated Geelong-Hawthorn clash.
Sheahan told SEN on Monday he resented Jackson’s accusation.
Jackson also let fly at the game itself, questioning the role women play in modern football and saying current footballers “should be charged with fraud”.
Current players were not impressed.
Open Mike!! 😳
— Sam Fisher (@SamFisher25) July 26, 2016
This man has serious demons #openmike
— Lachlan Hunter (@lachhunter) July 26, 2016
Even former football great Warwick Capper wanted to have his say on the interview.
jacko wont beat my ratings on #openmike great head 4 radio !! hes that ugly he would make a train take a dirt road !! @FOXFOOTY
— Warwick Capper (@WarwickCapper39) July 26, 2016
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