Browsing All Posts By Justin Civitillo
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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
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 ...
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Football 1
No Amor for the new King of the Pissants
Ser Gio Syrio was not the type of man to let circumstances affect his performance. He approached his duties as a knight of the Pissantguard with vigour, regardless ...
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Pop Culture
Guerrilla Tactics: How PWG lost their stars to WWE but still kept their mojo
In November 2013, I wrote for Shoot Farken about Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, a small professional wrestling promotion based Reseda, California. PWG has a reputation for providing some of ...
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Football 1
The Passion, the Pain, and the Pissants: Charting 10 Years of Adelaide United
It goes without saying that Adelaide United’s brief existence has been a tumultuous one. Reds fan and ABC reporter Loukas Founten has been there since the first game ...
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Pop Culture
Ryan & Scarlett: Deconstructing the Loner Fantasy Worlds of Drive and Under the Skin
Few films raised as many eyebrows in 2014 as Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin. Totally uncommercial and unwilling to hold the audience’s hand, the bizarre sci-fi flick was ...
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Football 3
Gombau of Thrones: King of Coaches, Saviour of Pissants?
Josep Gombau’s first season in charge of Adelaide has been a tale of controversy throughout. Despite being voted in as A-League All-Stars coach (and thus, arguably, the most ...
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Pop Culture
Indie Comics: Maybe the Nerds are onto something after all
Hollywood’s raging hard-on for comic book adaptations – largely of the ‘tights and fights’ variety – shows no signs of deflating. Increasingly, movies and TV series based on ...
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Football 1
Death to Pissants: Is Adelaide finally on the path to being United?
“Because of a piss-ant town this club will never win anything, until you get rid of that crap.” The now infamous words spoken by then-Adelaide United manager Aurelio ...
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Pop Culture
The Best Damn Wrestling Promotion on the Planet: Pro Wrestling Guerrilla
On the 24th of May 1999, approximately 11 million Americans tuned in to either WCW Monday Nitro or WWF RAW is WAR. This represented the peak of the ...
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