He’d grown up playing the game and reading the likes of Sir Neville Cardus and Ray Robinson. By 1996, the magazine was dead.Īpart from reading, Haigh had one other great love - cricket. Many years later, he recalled that the “ obscure monthly magazine” paid him so poorly that he was “ living on breakfast cereal”. Instead, he took a job as a staff writer at an upstart publication called Independent Monthly. For a bespectacled, bookish young man who enjoyed reading history, the classics and Shakespeare in his spare time, the options were probably limited to the latter two.īut he didn’t choose any of those conventional options.
Outside the Age, the full-time employment options for a serious writer of non-fiction in Melbourne were limited: he could apply for a job at the Herald-Sun, the popular, commercially-successful, Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid he could try his luck interstate by applying for a job at one of the other state capitals’ broadsheet newspapers or he could apply for a job at the Australian, the national broadsheet newspaper launched by Murdoch in 1964.
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