Mar 28, 2014

AFL

Buddy Franklin: I’m not sooking but….

When I decided to leave the Hawks for $10 million and move in with my model girlfriend, I never realised life could be so hard.

To begin, I pay a lot more tax than you probably do. I’m not sooking but a lot of you are kind of freeloading off me when you send your kids to school or drive on a road.

Does anyone thank me? No. Ungrateful the lot of you.

I also didn't expect to have my photo taken as I lay around in the sun with bikini clad women. Life is hard. That isn't a complaint though.

Then I have to hear these stories about a rift between me and the other Swan players. How silly. A rift needs two people to care.

I wouldn't realise if the other players were unhappy. I’m busy with my fashion range and extensive night club duties.

Why should they be sooking? I've made them relevant and let them crash my Mercedes. I’m the one who should be sooking but I’m not.

Who I really feel sorry for is my partner Jesinta. She’s not the sort of person to seek the limelight, so this has really upset her.

People need to remember I’m here to play football. You don’t gather seven possessions by accident.

I guess people will just never truly understand how hard life can be. Not that I’m sooking.