Melbourne: The greatest sporting city in the world through the eyes of the Irish living there

Joe Callaghan makes the case for Melbourne being the greatest sporting city on the planet, and examines the claims of its four closest rivals for that crown

Rebecca Miller of Richmond Tigers. Melbourne is one of the most sports-mad places in the world.

For whatever reasons, those lists of the most breathtaking train journeys on the planet never seem to find room for the Sandringham line of Melbourne’s Metro system.

If such rankings were compiled by sportswriters and not train-spotting types maybe, this oversight would be corrected pretty sharpish.