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Sport 7
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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Football 3
Dishonest 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 ...
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Football
Hi-Ha-Hondelul: My family’s part in the moral downfall of Dutch football
In a country renowned for charming cities and towns, Schiedam is always going to struggle to attract visitors. Part of Greater Rotterdam, it’s not that it lacks things ...
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Football
Yoshi Battles the Evil Sokkah Haters (with help from The Flaming Lips)
Hello Yoshi, Meet your long lost sister, Yoshimi. While you’ve been busy travelling around the country in your quest to find an A-League team to support, your bigger ...
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Football
In memory of Peter Grguric: The young star who was lost to football and claimed by the sea
“I’ll never forget the thing Peter used to do, where he’d kick the ball, juggle it with his head, shoulders, back, knees, just standing, going bang, bang, bang,” ...
Football
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Football
In memory of Peter Grguric: The young star who was lost to football and claimed by the sea
“I’ll never forget the thing Peter used to do, where he’d kick the ball, juggle it with his head, shoulders, back, knees, just standing, going bang, bang, bang,” ...
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Football
Games Goals Glory: Eleven seasons of A-League as cause for celebration
In 1977, my mother took me on a journey. We walked down to our little high street, with its two small supermarkets, the modest Woolworths general store, the ...
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Football 3
Tom Rogic is…. A found poem to the man from the fan
Midday in sunny Glasgow on September 10, 2016. Tom Rogic strolls on to the perfectly manicured pitch at Celtic Park. The occasion is the Old Firm derby. The ...
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Football
When football’s Bad News Bears of Belize took on the Mennonites
The Junior Coach’s prayer Lord, hear me now, for I have forever changed my stance! No longer, Lord, will I scowl like the Devil at mothers and fathers ...
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Football
Two seasons of Melbourne City: Still a pupa, but not as poop
When Melbourne City made their debut in October 2014 I took the David Attenborough route and described them as Melbourne Pupa FC. For those of you who didn’t ...
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Football
A Pissant Fairytale: How a City of Chokers became a City of Champions
Prologue With a population of just 1.7m – nearly a million fewer residents than the next (4th) most populous Australian state, Western Australia (2.6m), it probably isn’t too surprising ...
Sport
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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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Sport 6
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 ...
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Sport
“Who do you barrack for, Tony?” A Timeless Tale of Australian Naturalisation
Station Pier in Port Melbourne was the first point of entry for hundreds of thousands of Australian immigrants seeking a better life in the The Lucky Country. One ...
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Sport 2
The Shoot Farken Guide to naming and shaming Australia’s Football Hooligans
On September 12, 1885, the Fitzroy Football Club (merged with the Brisbane Bears to become Brisbane Lions in 1997) hosted the South Melbourne Football Club (Sydney Swans since ...
Pop Culture
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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 ...
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Pop Culture
The Case For and Against The Hateful Eight
The Hateful Eight, the eighth film by Quentin Tarantino has divided critics and movie goers alike. Here at Shoot Farken we have decided to put Tarantino on trial. ...
