Goodes wasn't the first Indigenous player to endure racist abuse on the football field, neither was Nicky Winmar. It has been going on a lot longer than that. Robert Muir endured a great deal of racist abuse throughout his career in the 1970s and 1980s and did not receive any protection.
The persecution of Robert Muir is the story football doesn't want to hear (abc.net.au)
St Kilda, AFL apologise to ex-player Robert Muir after accounts of horrible racism surface (afl.com.au)
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