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Mike Sheahan (born 1945) is an Australian journalist, and the editor of AFL Football in the Herald Sun. He is also a panelist on the Fox Sports program On the Couch.
Sheahan attended Werribee Secondary College and was the school dux. Starting with the Herald Sun newspaper in Melbourne, Victoria he has been a long-time sports writer for the newspaper, with his opinionated pieces drawing some criticism. He has established himself as one of the most prominent writers on Australian rules football, with his yearly Mike Sheahan's Top 50 list of the Australian Football League's best players always a talking point. Sheahan also worked with the Seven Network on their late-night football talk show, Talking Footy. He has a wife Emma Sheahan and a daughter to her named Jodi Sheahan who lives in Tasmania unlike Mike who lives in victoria. He is also the brother of former cricketer Paul Sheahan. While not officially a club member of any Australian Football League team, Sheahan revealed on Before the Bounce - a Fox Sports AFL show - that he has a soft spot for the Melbourne Demons.
In 2008, Sheahan given the task, by the AFL, to compile a list of the Greatest 50 players of all time, 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 in 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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