Browsing All Posts By Athas Zafiris
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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
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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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
“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
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
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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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