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The Birth of Football Mania (or how football replaced religion as the opium of the people)
In 1895 the renowned English sportsman (and polymath) Charles Burgess Fry noted that the burgeoning interest in Association football in the North of England was ‘almost a passion.’ ...
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President Socceroo: The curious rise of Tim Cahill
In case you haven’t noticed, Tim Cahill has become the-I’ve-been-everywhere-and-done-everything-man. With the squabbling in the Liberal Party unresolved, given the prospect, the juggernaut that is ‘Timmy’ Cahill would ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Essendon FC’s search for a ‘Capo’ interview tapes
Last week, Essendon Football Club announced the launch of a new product, a first for the AFL, the ‘Active Area’. According to Essendon FC: This exclusive membership area ...
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Super Bowl 49: As it happened in Uncertain, Texas, population 94
You know the classic cowboy movie bar scene; raucous, festive. The pianola player desperately keeps the urgent tempo of the room alive with “Yellow Rose of Texas” or some other favourite saloon ...
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A Socceroos Fairy Tale: The fan who skipped the ball to watch the Asian Cup Final
Nevena Kesic is a football fan. She went to the ball on the night of the Asian Cup Final. Here she recounts how her night turned into a ...
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A is for Ange: What it really means to be champions of ASIA
A is for Ange Postecoglou and his uncompromising idealism “Australia’s first ever Asian Cup triumph,” is the type of recent phrase routinely not attributed to the Matildas’ 2010 ...
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How Israel became the lost tribe of Asian football
There’s some scratchy black and white archival footage on YouTube of Israel playing Iran in the 1968 Asian Cup Final. The match was played in Tehran and Iran beat defending ...
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How Melbourne’s newspapers ignored the Asian Cup and let down the Muslim community
A few days ago, on Australia Day, I read this letter in Melbourne’s The Age newspaper. I, too, was lucky enough to have experienced “all the fun and ...
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Pop Culture
Ryan & Scarlett: Deconstructing the Loner Fantasy Worlds of Drive and Under the Skin
Few films raised as many eyebrows in 2014 as Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin. Totally uncommercial and unwilling to hold the audience’s hand, the bizarre sci-fi flick was ...
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Football
EXCLUSIVE: Tony Abbott’s Asian Cup Welcome
On the eve of hosting the biggest football tournament in Australia’s history, Shoot Farken has exclusively obtained Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s welcome to the 2015 Asian Cup. ...
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Pop Culture 5
John, Paul, George, Ringo and … Kanye
A survey conducted in 2009 by the Institution of Engineering and Technology found that up to a quarter of the people asked had no idea who first walked ...
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Pop Culture 2
Never mind the Bublé: 12 Songs for the 12 Days of Christmas
Christmas and popular music, oil and water. Almost every popular music artist, in every genre, under the sun (or in this case the Star of Bethlehem) has a ...
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Football
An Open Christmas Letter To Mark Bosnich
Dear Mr. Bosnich, May I call you Bozza? I am writing, Bozza, to wish you a very merry Christmas and of course the happiest of happy New Year’s. ...
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Sport
My Night with “Maldita” and the Bad Girls of Cholita Wrestling
PROLOGUE Geeky men of the world unite and follow me on a journey past, to a happier time of yore, where manly men were manly men, wrestling matches ...
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Football
A Death in the Football Family: John Drynan’s Slice of Heaven
Watch out for the alpaca poo when you play football in the Drynan family’s idyllic backyard – especially if you play in bare feet. Four alpacas look on ...
