The dark side of sport

Threesomes involving Premier league footballers have been tabloid fodder for years. But a new book looks at how the macho, cossetted professional sports environment has created a horrific world where rape is a form of male bonding, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

In October 2010, Collingwood won the Australian Football League Grand Final. The team’s players hit the town to celebrate. In the early hours of the following morning, a young woman went back to the South Melbourne house of a guy called Nate Cooper who lived with his cousin and one of Collingwood’s players, John McCarthy.

John McCarthy