'LAND OF THE FALAFEL'McGuire was also labelled racist back in 2011 after he dismissed multicultural western Sydney as "the land of the falafel". "These things just get out of control," McGuire told Macquarie Radio. TV personality Eddie McGuire's shocking comments about a female sports writer are the latest in a string of public gaffes from the Collingwood Football Club president. Llewellyn, who defected to Seven, told Crikey in 2011: "Not only do I remember Eddie McGuire saying what he said, I remember how he looked as he said it. Rowe later attacked the Collingwood president on breakfast show Studio 10, saying McGuire "made her life hell".

Source: New Zealand Herald June 20, 2016 04:41 UTC