The avid Bombers supporter has cheered for her team from the sidelines since she was 13.

Now 83, Ms Slattery was awarded for her lifetime membership of the football club last month, being presented with a certificate and badge at a ceremony at the Moonee Ponds Town Hall.

During the football season, friends pick her up from the Sandown Retirement Village in Wantirna and chauffeur her to the game or the airport.

"I have friends who live in Wantirna and they are the kindest people," she says.

"They pick me up and take me to the game in Melbourne or drop me off at the airport and I meet up with friends to watch the game in Sydney or Brisbane."

Her involvement goes beyond attending the games however.

Every Tuesday and Friday night for 18 years, Ms Slattery cooked for the players after every training session at their home ground in Essendon.

"I just loved being a part of the atmosphere and Kevin Sheedy was a lovely man," she says.

Her passion for the game was sparked as a teenager.

"My local butcher, a mad Essendon supporter, talked about the game with such excitement I thought, I have to see it for myself."

She says that until the footy season begins, she will immerse herself in cricket.

"I don't love it as much as footy, but it will do."