The Whole World Watched: How the 2025 AFL Grand Final Became a Global Circus of Capitalism, Concussions, and Crypto
MELBOURNE—Somewhere between the 21-gun salute and the 21st schooner, it became clear that the 2025 AFL Grand Final is no longer merely an Australian curiosity watched by expats at 3 a.m. in Shepherd’s Bush pubs. Instead, it has quietly become the planet’s most efficient metaphor for late-capitalism: 100,000 people paying a week’s rent for a…