“The only thing I remember about the flight was sitting in the plane and looking out the window at the clouds and thinking ‘’I wonder if this is Australia?’ or ‘I wonder if that’s Australia”, always thinking one of those clouds was Australia.” It was quite a realistic thought at the time . . . a kid’s imagination running wild.”
Milham Hanna quite literally walked in off the street, but in truth he came to Carlton from half way round the world. Born in Kantara in Northern Lebanon, Mil found his feet in neighboring East Brunswick, just a short tram ride down Sydney Road to the front entrance of the place then known as Princes Park.
Arriving in Melbourne with his mother and sister on Cup Day 1971, Mil, then five years old, had a premonition he would one day play for the Carlton Football Club. It would happen some 15 years later with disastrous consequences at VFL Park, but it would end 189 games later with a Premiership medallion to show for it.
“Now I look back and think about what I’d be doing if I was still in the little village of Northern Lebanon,” Milham said.
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