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Football 2
They call him Judy: The day an Australian coal miner challenged English football supremacy
Sydney, 1925… They call him Judy. Dressed in a football jersey the colour of the pale blue sky outside, he is nervously pacing the dressing room under the ...
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Sport
CARN: The rollicking story of the football league that swallowed an entire code
In 1896, football in the colony of Victoria was in crisis. Australian Rules football as played in Melbourne had become unwatchable and turned into box office poison. A ...
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Football
Angela Iannotta’s historic, unseen goal: the story of Australia’s first ever World Cup goalscorer in her own words
Like people, no two goals are alike. Each is unique, with its own characteristics and meaning. One of the characteristics of the goal Angela Iannotta scored against China ...
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Football
Reliving the last days of Yugoslavia with The Last Yugoslavian Team
“Hey, did you guys ever watch The Last Yugoslav Soccer Team? Now THERE’S a tearjerker…!” I ask my brother, his wife and my husband in a group chat. ...
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Football 2
The Heavy Sleeper’s 2018 World Cup Diary
Friday, June 15, 1.00am Russia 5 Saudi Arabia 0 My excitement levels are muted for this tournament for all sorts of petty reasons. Most petty of all, I’m ...
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Football
Oracle of Delphi says France will win 2018 FIFA World Cup
On a recent trip to Delphi, aka the navel of the world, Shoot Farken gained exclusive access to Pythia, the legendary Oracle of Delphi and asked her to ...
Football
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Football
Oracle of Delphi says France will win 2018 FIFA World Cup
On a recent trip to Delphi, aka the navel of the world, Shoot Farken gained exclusive access to Pythia, the legendary Oracle of Delphi and asked her to ...
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Football
The incredible tale of the Newcastle Anzac who was offered a contract after scoring a hat-trick for Chelsea
On Tuesday, July 16, 1918, Newcastle’s football community opened their local paper, The Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, to catch up on the latest news and gossip. ...
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Football
Andie Peci of the Bonek: The hard life and dangerous times of an Indonesian football ultra
The re-launch of the Go-jek Traveloka Indonesian Football League saw the return of Persebaya from several years in non-playing wilderness. This was a struggle played out on the ...
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Football
Goodbye Les Murray, from one refugee to another
On the evenings when I happen to get home from work before my husband, Igor, one of the first things I do – and I wager I’m not ...
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Football 3
“Fake News” media hid Donald Trump’s spectacular football career
A dastardly cabal made up of dishonest media and Marxist football historians have for decades hidden the truth on Donald Trump’s spectacularly successful football career. I have bad ...
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Football
How Amor’s Pissants plunged from Paradise to Purgatory
On May Day 2016, Adelaide United finally came of age. Since its formation in 2003, the Reds had promised much, yet delivered little in the tangible form of ...
Sport
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Sport
Imagining Romelu Lukaku: The black athlete as invented by white people
As a society, we have certain imaginations of the black body. It is perpetually big, strong, dominant. We have expectations of how it will move, walk, gesture and ...
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REVEALED: The forgotten first match between a VFL team and an Aboriginal football team
On Tuesday, September 16, 1913, something occurred that should be commemorated within the annals of Australian Rules football, but has instead been completely forgotten. The first ever match ...
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Sport
The small, strange canon of Aussie Rules songs just got bigger with “Bob Chitty’s Blues”
FOR all that Australian Rules football is played, watched, discussed, argued over and thought about, it resonates surprisingly little in the wider culture. There are some poems by ...
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Sport 1
How Waleed Aly tried to rope-a-dope Muhammad Ali and failed
When we write about people, we talk about the times that shaped them and the experiences they’ve had. How else do we begin to understand these complex figures — especially ...
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Sport
Football: The Great Deradicaliser
Paris is no stranger to terror attacks. In recent memory we have had the awful events of the “Charlie Hebdo Shooting” and the “Paris Attacks” which included the ...
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Cummeragunja: The Aboriginal football team that opened the eyes of White Australia
In the 1930s, Sir Doug Nicholls was the solitary Indigenous player plying his trade in top flight football in Melbourne. But he did not come out of a ...
Pop Culture
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Pop Culture
What happens when you go and see “The Beatles of Yugoslavia” but there’s no Yugoslavia?
I can spot a Balkanite a mile away. Now, sure, this may not be a veritable life skill by any means, but I have a knack for seeing ...
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Pop Culture 4
Ten essential Aussie albums you should listen to before you die
The Atlantics Bombora 1963 (CBS) Listen when: You and Gidget are strapping your malibus to your woody. Fuck Dick Dale and Pulp Fiction. Bombora’s where it’s at. Drunk ...
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Pop Culture
Nuts! The story of the man who got rich transplanting goat testicles into men
Penny Lane’s documentary Nuts! works best if you have no idea who John Brinkley is; in that way, one is able to experience Brinkley as much of his ...
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Pop Culture
So you want to be a rock ‘n’ roll star: The guide to DIY music
How’s your drive-time commute? Enjoying pushing the pedal to the metal as “Life in the Fast Lane” oozes its pus fueled mediocrity through your Clarion speakers? Still jerking ...
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Pop Culture
Trout Mask Replica: Our 8 Step Guide to appreciating an “unlistenable” masterpiece
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky Deep in the semi-fashionable Woodland Hills of Los Angeles, an ...
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Pop Culture
Music for a dumbed down world: Why RATM’s Evil Empire still matters
I don’t know what I was so ashamed of. For some reason I couldn’t spit out the words, “I… I really love Rage Against the Machine.” The dreadlocked ...
