Mike Sheahan (born March 4, 1947)[citation needed] is an Australian journalist, editor of AFL Football in the Herald Sun, a panelist on the Fox Sports program "On the Couch" and ex-Media Director for the VFL (now AFL)
Sheahan attended Werribee High School and started his journalistic career with the Werribee Banner. He then began work with the Age newspaper in Melbourne before moving to The Herald and subsequently the Herald Sun where he has been a long-time sports writer. His opinionated pieces have drawn some criticism but he has established himself as one Aussie Rules' most prominent writers and his annual Mike Sheahan's Top 50 is always hotly debated. Sheahan also worked with the Seven Network on their late-night football talk show, Talking Footy and currently appears on Fox Sports' popular "On The Couch" with ex-Brownlow Medallists Gerard Healy and James Hird. He is also the cousin of former Test cricketer Paul Sheahan. While not officially a club member of any Australian Football League team, Sheahan revealed on Fox Sports' "Before the Bounce" that he has a soft spot for the Melbourne Football Club.
In 2008 Sheahan was given the task by the AFL to compile a list of the Greatest 50 players of all time (though no SANFL or WAFL players were included as 'all time' to the AFL means only players from the VFL/AFL), to be published in the book 'The Australian Game of Football', which honored the 150th anniversary of Australian Rules Football. Sheahan sparked much debate by putting North Melbourne champion Wayne Carey at number one ahead of the AFL's player of the 20th Century Leigh Matthews, who was named at number 2.
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