Caroline Wilson is an Australian sports journalist, who currently appears on 3AW

3AW

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's pre-match AFL

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 discussion, as a panelist on Nine Network

Nine Network

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's Footy Classified

Footy Classified

Footy Classified , is an Australian television program broadcast on the Nine Network which discusses pressing issues relating to AFL football. It debuted on Monday 2 April 2007...

, and an occasional panelist on the ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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 program Offsiders

Offsiders

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Born and raised in Melbourne, Wilson is the daughter of Ian Wilson, who was president of Richmond Football Club

Richmond Football Club

The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...

 between 1974 and 1985. She is married to Seven News

Seven News

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reporter, Brendan Donohoe, and they have three children - Rose, Ned and Clementine.

Wilson began covering football in 1982. She has covered numerous sports, but specialises in AFL football, and has been chief football writer for Melbourne's The Age

The Age

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newspaper since 1999 She has won numerous sporting journalism awards.

Wilson appeared every Wednesday night on White Line Fever

White Line Fever

White Line Fever was an Australian Football League-related television show, airing from 2000 to 2006 during the regular football season. It was based on a talkback radio format, airing live weeknightly at 7.30pm AEST on the Fox Footy Channel on the Foxtel, Austar and Optus pay television...

on Fox Footy

Fox Footy

Fox Footy is an upcoming Australian Rules football subscription television channel dedicated to screening Australian rules football matches and related programming. It will be owned by Premier Media Group, operated out of their Melbourne based studios and available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus...

, until the show was cancelled in 2006 following the dissolution of Fox Footy Channel

Fox Footy Channel

The Fox Footy Channel was a channel exclusively dedicated to Australian rules football. It was owned by Foxtel, and operated out of their Melbourne based studios. It was available on Foxtel, Austar, Optus Television, TransTV and Neighbourhood Cable up until transmission was ceased on 1 October 2006...

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