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  • 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
  • Australian Rules

    Blacks and “Blacked-Up Whites” v Whites: The story of the strangest game of footy ever played

    On Monday, June 11, 1900, Melbourne’s The Argus newspaper reported that a charity match was “played  between 20 representatives of the Healesville Aboriginal Station and a team selected ...

    On September 4, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football

    Notes on an “Ultra” spectacular A-League Grand Final

    The Game The game was no classic. Finals rarely are. Like waiting in the dark room in pre-digital days for a print to develop, we waited for a ...

    On May 21, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football

    10 Anti-Racist Songs for the A-League’s #EraseRacism Round

    This weekend, Round 22 of the Hyundai A-League will be played. It has also been named the ‘Erase Racism Round’. According to the media release from All Together ...

    On March 20, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football 20

    How a Coyote explains the defective logic of a Football Bitter

    Diving into the world of social media has its positives and its negatives. For every pithy comment of genuine wisdom or link to an illuminating piece, where you ...

    On March 12, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Australian Rules

    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 ...

    On February 11, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football 2

    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 ...

    On January 29, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
  • 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 ...

    On December 23, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football

    Socceroos Haiku: Ange Postecoglou Lost in Translation

    In a plush hotel room in Osaka, in a steam filled bathroom, a hand reached out and turned off the super jet powered shower. For 30 minutes Ange ...

    On November 20, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football 1

    Fan division after derby demolition: The early evolution of Melbourne City FC

    Last weekend’s Melbourne Derby, the first between Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City, had AFL media types creaming their pants over the atmosphere, Victory fans gushing like Yosemite geysers ...

    On October 30, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football 8

    Does an insect have a heart? The early evolution of Melbourne City FC

    I am still trying to process what I experienced at Melbourne City’s first home game at AAMI Park last Sunday afternoon. Days later, as I’m typing this, the ...

    On October 22, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football

    Ange Postecoglou and the Magic Lamp: How the Socceroos won the Asian Cup

    On his final night in Doha, Ange Postecoglou suddenly remembered he had some shopping to do. His mind was still consumed by negative thoughts stemming from two uninspiring ...

    On October 21, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football 1

    Football Songs: The Shoot Farken Top 20

    Here at Shoot Farken, we travel to the beat of a different football drum. We are marking the start of the A-League season with a countdown of football ...

    On October 10, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football

    Meet David Squires: Football Cartoon Genius (Accidental Sydney FC Fan)

    England’s best performance of the 2014 World Cup wasn’t produced on the pitches in Brazil, where The Three Lions were below average to put it politely. And it ...

    On September 23, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Australian Rules 2

    EXCLUSIVE: The crazy match day experience ideas of AFL clubs

    Port Adelaide’s approximation of a passionate ‘soccer’ crowd in their pre-game build up (sing iconic song loudly, hold scarf proudly above head) has the AFL in a lather. ...

    On September 11, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football

    Notes from the Ange Underground: The Socceroos v ‘Shoddy’ Arabia

    Ange Postecoglou took some notes after this morning’s match against Saudi Arabia at Craven Cottage, London. Thanks to a mole in the Australian camp, Shoot Farken can exclusively ...

    On September 9, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football

    Ça plane pour moi: Ange Postecoglou and the wisdom of Plastic Bertrand

    Belgium. Hate the place. Full of smartarses, especially their journos. “You lost your five last games and you play against the fifth best team in the world. Are ...

    On September 5, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Australian Rules 2

    Priced out, scheduled out: How the AFL lost 500,000 bums on seats in Melbourne

    You’re the biggest act in town, so you’re entitled to a bit of hubris. Your policy of ground rationalisation at the end of the 20th century transformed a ...

    On September 3, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Pop Culture

    The Overnighters and 2 Days, 1 Night: How I couldn’t escape the common people at MIFF

    Arriving back in Melbourne from the significant distraction and vacation of a World Cup trip to Brazil is akin to standing under a shower with only one tap ...

    On August 7, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football

    World Cup Farken: The USA doesn’t need to win the World Cup, they have already won

    The match was over. Team USA had lost to Germany 1-0 but had also won qualification for the knockout phase of the 2014 FIFA World Cup courtesy of ...

    On June 28, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
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