LaPaglia and Crowe Plan To Eat Football Stadium

Or else they are planning to build one and then eat it. Or build one and play in it, precise details are unclear.

If you are unsure of exactly who this ‘LaPaglia’ fellow is, he’s that actor from TV map-reading drama Without a Trace. He’s Australian. He once wore a green leather suit (an actual proper suit, just like men who manage supermarkets wear) in the film The Client. He was slimmer then and didn’t sweat as much. Apparently he sweats so much now that his nostril hairs drip onto his lunch. The ‘Crowe’ of this story is, of course, angry man Russell Crowe. He’s from New Zealand, but calls Australia home because, well, he lives there. He’s done a few films, some good (Romper Stomper, LA Confidential, Neighbours The Movie: Viva Des Clarke), most bad (Cinderella Man, everything else). He can be a bit chubby if the mood takes him. He’s probably keeping John Culshaw in work. Occasionally he throws telecommunications devices at hotel employees. In retrospect, he helps a lot of people out.

Both these guys, Anthony LaPaglia and Russell Crowe, are financially stable. They can afford those extra spring rolls on the takeaway menu without having to scramble around under the sofa for loose change only to find nothing but a hairclip and some bellybutton fluff. They’ve got money. What they enjoy doing with that money is their business. Or it’s our business when we get wind of something a bit interesting, like a sports stadium for crazy Australians to run around and get drunk in.

LaPaglia commented:

“He (Crowe) wants a stadium, I want a stadium and we think together there is a possibility we might be able to pull it off. I would say if we could get the right people in the room at the same time, it is something that could happen in two to three years.”

Anthony LaPaglia probably earns far less than Crowe, but he can probably eat far more. We are not sure why this is important. As director and shareholder of Sydney FC, which is what foreign people call a soccer..? team (no idea), LaPaglia has lofty ambitions to produce said stadium with a 25,000 strong capacity. We can only assume Crowe has the same dream, as he hasn’t said anything much about it. They must be mates though, or else they just like spending lots of money together on pointless crap. Though that would make them married.

Russell Crowe co-owns a rugby team called the South Sydney Rabbitohs. This means that both men will have to share the stadium with their respective sports, thus making the opening headline of this supremely silly article redundant and yet, strangely, it's still there. Even though this stadium project has been in the planning stages now for nearly half a decade, it almost reads like a worthy investment. These boys are giving back, not taking away (they could be fronting acting classes for aspiring thesps, “Now, kids, you wanna hold your can this way up so the beer doesn’t fall out.” – shudder!). It’s unlikely that they will want to eat their stadium too, as that’s just stupid. What with Crowe and his temper tantrums and LaPaglia and his sweating, they’d just make a right old mess of the pitch.

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