Browsing All Posts By Athas Zafiris
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Football
World Cup Farken: Screw the pseudo-football intellectuals, I’m jumping on the Uruguayan Magic Bus
‘I feel stupid and contagious Here we are now; entertain us’ Kurt Cobain Fuck, it must be hard. Fuck, it must be so hard staying up to watch ...
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Football
World Cup Farken: The Guide to surviving Brazilian TV Reporters, U.S. Soccer Fans and the rare dull game
This piece was supposed to be about the Japan v Greece match I attended at the Arena das Dunas in Natal last Thursday night. I really can’t be ...
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Football
World Cup Farken: Believing to win with the Yanks
Last Saturday night during the Italy v England match I tweeted. Natal weather update. Gone from raining cats and dogs to raining big Saint Bernards. Now I know ...
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Football
World Cup Farken: Puto!! Celebrating victory with the Mexicans
The cancelled flight from Lisbon to Recife. The look on your face when you realise you will miss your connection to Natal. That sinking feeling when you depart ...
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Football
The Spirit of 74
A rag-tag bunch of semi-professionals led by a street-wise war orphan arrived in West Germany 40 years ago to take on the football world’s elite. And so was ...
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Football
The Short Sad History of Shit Socceroos World Cup Songs
After 32 years of hurt, Australian football fans have been blessed with three successive appearances in the World Cup. This most welcome blessing has also been accompanied by ...
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Football
Melbourne Heart (City) to launch Red & White Buy-Back Scheme
In a Shoot Farken exclusive, we can reveal that Manchester City, the new mega-rich owners of A-League club Melbourne Heart, will soon be launching The Red & White ...
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Australian Rules
The Indispensable Football (as in Soccer) Fan’s Guide To AFL 2014
Are you a football fan who is interested in following an AFL team this season? Even outgoing AFL capo dei capi Andrew Demetriou once admitted that it was ...
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Football
AngeLeaks: Inside the mind of Ange Postecoglou at the Julian Assange Cup
A stream-of-consciousness mind dump from Ange Postecoglou, Socceroos coach, during Australia’s 4-3 loss against Ecuador in a friendly played at The New Den, London. (This readout has been ...
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Football 4
The A-League is leaving MLS for dead when it comes to TV ratings
I intended to write this piece later in the year. I really did. But all it took was one tweet from a notorious A-League killjoy to change that. ...
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Football
Shoot Farken Festivus: The Airing of A-League Match Day Grievances
I was wondering how to celebrate 100 days of Shoot Farken. Surely, this alternate Australian cybermedia mash-up with a core ingredient of football deserved something to mark the ...
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Football
Tomi Juric or Josh Kennedy: Will the Colossus of Western Sydney go to the World Cup?
Tomi Juric or Josh Kennedy? This could very well be the scenario confronting Socceroos manager Ange Postecoglou. Does he choose the veteran hero Josh Kennedy, our Saviour who ...
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Football 1
An A-League Xmas: From Bad Football in Sydney to Bad Santa at the Melbourne Derby
“You have a tactic, you concede a goal, tactic – pfff!” Helenio Herrera Bleary eyed, I absorbed the wisdom from the godfather of catennacio. I was re-reading Simon ...
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Football
A Scarred Socceroos Fan Reflects on the World Cup
When I am not watching football, I like to watch films. You can blame this on SBS TV’s effect on a young curious teenager. When SBS launched in ...
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Football
A-League Fans in Rebellion: An Existential Guide to Football Protests
It’s not quite May 1968, but an air of protest has swept through the supporter groups belonging to the navy blue three quarters and the red and white ...
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Football 2
Melbourne Heart to Crowdfund John Aloisi Sacking
In a move without precedent in professional team sport, A-League football club, Melbourne Heart will be launching a crowdfunding campaign to help pay for the removal of their ...
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Football
The Day Francesco Totti came to Melbourne Heart
In early October 2012 I received an email from Pasquale, an old acquaintance of mine. He had just opened a pizzeria on the other side of town and ...
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Football 2
It’s a Melbourne Heartache: A Song for Losing
The weather closed in during the second half. There was a football match to watch, between Melbourne Heart and Western Sydney Wanderers, but I had the awful feeling ...
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Football 1
#FarinaOut: Social Media and the Football Manager
I could not help but smile when Frank Farina jumped on his keyboard and became a warrior last night. Fed up with the abuse he is receiving on ...
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Football
The Life and Passion of St Ange
Look yonder oh believer and ye shall be struck by the might of the holy fist pump of St Ange. For his story is the story of us ...
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