Most Australians love Australian football, but they reserve their real passion, their allegiance - even their heartfelt love - for their own AFL club. Six of the eight clubs that came to form the Victorian Football League in Melbourne in 1897 still comprise the nucleus of the top-level competition that now operates as the Australian Football League. The wide expansion of the AFL has moved the southern obsession north into New South Wales and Queensland, and across the country into South Australia and Western Australia as well. The Clubs provides the story of each of the 19 clubs, new and old, to have played in the VFL/AFL and features the great teams, the great games, the players, the incidents and the highs and lows of each club as it battles its way through the seasons.
