Hate of origin: Inside football’s most intense rivalry

Hate of origin: Inside football’s most intense rivalry

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Essendon and Hawthorn have hated each other for more than 40 years, from some old-fashioned thuggery and a fake drug scandal in the mid-80s to last year’s failed bid by the Hawks to poach the Bombers’ captain.