It was 10 years ago yesterday that Garry Lyon stepped back from presenting The AFL Footy Show on Australia’s Nine Network for one week only.
It was a few days after Jim Stynes, his former Melbourne teammate and friend of more than 27 years, had died and a few days before the Dubliner was to be afforded a state funeral at St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne.
Lyon would still leave his mark on that particular edition of the show, however, in the shape of a touching five-minute long monologue on Stynes to open the broadcast.
