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Eddie McGuire in hot water again over Adam Goodes

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Eddie McGuire has angrily denied calling Adam Goodes’ controversial AFL goal celebration violent or aggressive.

Two years after McGuire made his attempted “King Kong” joke about Goodes, the Collingwood president and prominent AFL commentator said he would call the Sydney star to ensure there was no misunderstanding.

McGuire was part of Fox Footy’s commentary team for the Friday night game between Sydney and Carlton.

Goodes has sparked plenty of debate for his second-term “war cry” celebration when he kicked a goal.

“We’ve never seen that (celebration) before and I don’t think we ever want to see it again to be perfectly honest, regardless of what it is,” McGuire said on air at half time.

Goodes said on Saturday morning that he felt sorry for McGuire if the celebration had offended him.

McGuire then went on Melbourne radio, telling SEN he was on Goodes’ side.

“The point I was making at one point was you don’t know the camera angles on these things,” McGuire said.

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“So we were giving every possible opportunity for us to get to a point where we could listen to Adam, then we heard his point afterwards.

“Then we analysed it in the context of world sport and whether or not you should be making pseudo or direct political comment during a game of football.

“That’s all it was. To say that I was violently against it or that I thought it was violent or anything else is nonsense.”

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