Matthew Larkin (born 19 August 1964) is a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played for the

North Melbourne Football Club The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos or colloquially the Roos, is a professional Australian rules football club. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AF ...

. A midfielder, Larkin appeared 172 times for the Kangaroos in the

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between 1984 and 1993. He captained the club for three seasons in the early 1990s. From 1985 until 1988 he won three of the four North Melbourne

best and fairest In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...

awards. He had been recruited from

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* * 1964 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) North Melbourne Football Club players Syd Barker Medal winners Werribee Football Club players Victorian State of Origin players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1960s-stub