Why does Russell Crowe go for the Souths?

Not that I give a stuff about League or Russell Crowe.

From SMH

''It started in the late '60s when I was four years old,'' he recounts. ''My Dad had a muffler shop in Beaconsfield, the heart of Souths territory, in the last of the golden age of Souths, where the streets were decked in red and green week in, week out. Now, my Dad was a St George supporter and would talk to my brother and I about St George, and they just thought I would come along - a mistake I won't make with my boys - but he had a workmate, a Chinese Australian bloke, who would always talk to me about Souths. So by five years old, I'm a committed Souths supporter, and so from then on we were a fractured family that only came together when the All Blacks were playing …''

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