Paul Amy

Fred Cook began his football career with Footscray in the VFL. But he really made his name in the game after crossing to Port Melbourne in the VFA.<br /> <br />His prodigious goalkicking in the 1970s earned him the nickname of &apos;Fabulous Fred&apos; and fame at a pop-star level. He appeared on TV, on radio and wrote newspaper columns, and he mixed with Melbourne&apos;s sporting and entertainment elite.<br /> <br />But he fell in with a criminal crowd, formed a drug...