Muscat Magpies flying high.

The Week (Muscat, Oman) | February 4, 2009 | Copyright

Byline: Ashok Purohit

The name Muscat Magpies draws its inspiration from one of the worldAAEs most popular Australian rules football clubs, Collingwood Football Club.

The Melbourne-based club, also known as the Magpies, has a tradition of performance that is unparalleled in Australian league history and wears black and white striped guernseys, similar to the colours of a magpie.

Such is the clubAAEs popularity that Collingwood is also known as the Manchester United of Aussie rules football.

But far away from Down Under, another Australian ...

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