Phil Walsh death | 'It's a call that you never want to get'

Updated July 4 2015 - 2:45pm, first published 2:44pm
Toughest of days: Daniel Talia and Rory Laird leave the Adelaide club rooms as tributes are left for coach Phil Walsh. Photo: Getty Images
Toughest of days: Daniel Talia and Rory Laird leave the Adelaide club rooms as tributes are left for coach Phil Walsh. Photo: Getty Images

For Adelaide, everything changed at 3.30am. For the people who knew, loved and worked with Phil Walsh, football both meant nothing and was the one thing keeping them together early on Friday morning and all the way through the toughest of tough days. But 3.30am was when the Crows chairman received the phone call that still seemed impossible, unthinkable and inconceivable, long after the sun had come up. There's been a tragedy, the police told Rob Chapman, and it involves your coach. "It's a call," said Chapman, "that you never want to get."

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