Magpies super fan ‘Joffa’ Corfe rails against politically correct culture

Footy fan legend Jeff “Joffa” Corfe will return to see his beloved Magpies play on the weekend after boycotting matches over the excessive crowd control issue. But another issue has him worked up.

Footy fan legend Jeff “Joffa” Corfe has railed against political correctness and “Left-wing lunatics” in the wake of the fan behaviour fiasco.

Joffa said he would return to the footy to see his beloved Magpies this weekend after AFL boss Gillon McLachlan apologised to supporters over excessive crowd control.

Collingwood cheer squad member Joffa Corfe protested against the AFL’s crowd control policies. Picture: Mark Stewart

In a podcast for free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, the Collingwood cheer squad member said the footy terraces were still free of political correctness, but “the PC society that we’re living in society today is going to kill us”.

“It is slowly doing it now. And it’s also people pretending to be offended. There are a lot of people out there that just pretend to be offended so they talk about something,” he said.

“I lean towards the Left (but) sadly there are a minority of people who are extreme Left-wing lunatics.”

“They infiltrate the media and the radio stations, and they push out this message that this is how you’ve got to think, this is what you’ve got to say, you can’t behave like that.”

Joffa said that in the terraces, “we’re all one people, we’re all there for the one reason to support the club that we love”.

Joffa at last year’s grand final. Picture: David Caird

“There’s no PC, there’s no pointing the finger, there’s no looking down on someone because they may not have reached the heights that you’ve reached in life,” he said.

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“We are being bashed by commentators who sit behind glass windows at football games. You’re not allowed to boo, you can’t say baldheaded flog.”

“I tell these people, ‘Get in the terraces and get a feel of what’s really going on at football games, and what football people do.’”

The Young IPA podcast co-hosted by James Bolt and Peter Gregory will be released on Thursday.

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