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    Remembering the Maryborough marvel, Frank Ivory: The extraordinary life and times of the first Indigenous star of two football codes

    Maryborough Railway Station, 30 August 1893 He stood on the platform, a suitcase in his hand and a dream in his head. Of course he’d been here before. ...

    On June 23, 2020 / By Paul Nicholls
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    Finding Eadie Fraser: The story of how one of Scotland’s earliest football stars ended up buried in the Australian bush

    Twenty thousand souls were crammed into Hampden Park. Five times they leapt to their feet in wild delight as England crumbled under Scotland’s second half hammer blows. How ...

    On February 10, 2020 / By Paul Nicholls
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    They call him Judy: The day an Australian coal miner challenged English football supremacy

    Sydney, 1925… They call him Judy. Dressed in a football jersey the colour of the pale blue sky outside, he is nervously pacing the dressing room under the ...

    On September 12, 2019 / By Paul Nicholls

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