Michael Sexton (born 5 March 1971) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton between 1990 and 2000 in the Australian Football League. A defender, Sexton was a member of Carlton's 1995 premiership team and an

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in both 1996 and 1997. He was recruited from the Sandhurst Dragons. Sexton is the brother of

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and the cousin of

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, who both also played in the AFL. Sexton is member of the AFL " Laws of the Game" or Rules Committee.

Statistics

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1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicist ...

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1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 14 , , 13 , , 0 , , 2 , , 100 , , 34 , , 134 , , 33 , , 15 , , 0.0 , , 0.2 , , 7.7 , , 2.6 , , 10.3 , , 2.5 , , 1.2 , , 0 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1992 , style="text-align:center;", , 14 , , 19 , , 1 , , 1 , , 162 , , 69 , , 231 , , 70 , , 23 , , 0.1 , , 0.1 , , 8.5 , , 3.6 , , 12.2 , , 3.7 , , 1.2 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...

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1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...

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1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

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2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 14 , , 6 , , 0 , , 1 , , 44 , , 23 , , 67 , , 17 , , 5 , , 0.0 , , 0.2 , , 7.3 , , 3.8 , , 11.2 , , 2.8 , , 0.8 , , 0 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 200 ! 23 ! 30 ! 2087 ! 882 ! 2969 ! 854 ! 201 ! 0.1 ! 0.2 ! 10.4 ! 4.4 ! 14.8 ! 4.3 ! 1.0 ! 16

References

External links

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Michael Sexton Profile in Blueseum
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sexton, Michael 1971 births Living people VFL/AFL players born outside Australia Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Carlton Football Club players Carlton Football Club Premiership players Victorian State of Origin players All-Australians (AFL) Sandhurst Football Club players One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players