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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 ...
On May 25, 2017 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On February 2, 2017 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On October 13, 2016 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On September 16, 2016 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On September 13, 2016 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On June 10, 2016 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On May 26, 2016 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On May 13, 2016 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On March 18, 2016 / By Athas Zafiris
Football
Stop The Flares! FFA proposes to swap children detained in Nauru with A-League troublemakers

Shoot Farken can exclusively reveal that Football Federation Australia (FFA) has approached the Federal Government, namely the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, in a desperate bid to ...
On February 10, 2016 / By Athas Zafiris
Football
A Season at Le Havre: The Story of Harry Novillo the Hare and Riyad Mahrez the Tortoise

Harry Novillo woke up bleary-eyed on a fine, early summer morning in Melbourne. He switched on the television, then walked into the kitchen to make his bowl of ...
On December 18, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
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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 ...
On November 27, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
Football
The Red and Black Bloc Massacre

The big day had arrived. It was stinkingly hot. The mercury had brushed 40c earlier in the day in Sydney’s West. RBB (Red and Black Bloc) stalwart, Rob, ...
On November 6, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
Football
The song your A-League club should walk out to this season

Last week, Perth Glory CEO Peter Filopoulos jumped on social media and asked fans to suggest a tune for the team to walk out to on home match ...
On October 6, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
Football
How Melbourne Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Soccer (well almost)

“Perhaps only in Melbourne does a brooding, hidebound and monolithic structure of feeling dominate, where other codes are sometimes humoured and usually dismissed as inferior.” – Dr Ian Syson, academic ...
On September 18, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
Sport
Blacks and “Blacked-Up Whites” v Whites: The story of the strangest game of footy ever played

On Saturday, June 9, 1900, in the Colony of Victoria, six months before the Federation of Australia, in the shadow of Pentridge Prison, in the northern suburb of ...
On September 4, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris