Maybe it was sleep deprivation. Maybe it was lockdown melancholy. Or perhaps it was wistful, sentimental nostalgia. But watching the post-game show after that breathless Liverpool – AC ...
On September 24, 2021 / By Josh ParishHistory is not fixed. It is ever shifting. The past will always reveal something new and then another history will be rewritten only for it to be rewritten ...
On July 17, 2021 / By Athas ZafirisIn the corner of a park near the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia, is a statue of a nuggety, muscular man born on the 1st ...
On June 21, 2021 / By Engel SchmidlSoccer has trouble remembering itself. This failing leaves it open to accusations of foreignness and unbelonging, accusations levelled from without and often complacently accepted from within. One of ...
On April 22, 2021 / By Athas ZafirisTwenty 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 NichollsSydney, 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 NichollsLike people, no two goals are alike. Each is unique, with its own characteristics and meaning. One of the characteristics of the goal Angela Iannotta scored against China ...
On June 8, 2019 / By Engel Schmidl“Hey, did you guys ever watch The Last Yugoslav Soccer Team? Now THERE’S a tearjerker…!” I ask my brother, his wife and my husband in a group chat. ...
On October 28, 2018 / By Nevena KesicFriday, June 15, 1.00am Russia 5 Saudi Arabia 0 My excitement levels are muted for this tournament for all sorts of petty reasons. Most petty of all, I’m ...
On June 18, 2018 / By Paul MavroudisOn 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 ...
On June 13, 2018 / By Athas ZafirisOn 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. ...
On April 24, 2018 / By Athas ZafirisThe re-launch of the Go-jek Traveloka Indonesian Football League saw the return of Persebaya from several years in non-playing wilderness. This was a struggle played out on the ...
On October 21, 2017 / By Andy FullerAs a society, we have certain imaginations of the black body. It is perpetually big, strong, dominant. We have expectations of how it will move, walk, gesture and ...
On September 29, 2017 / By Ahmed YussufOn the evenings when I happen to get home from work before my husband, Igor, one of the first things I do – and I wager I’m not ...
On September 15, 2017 / By Nevena KesicA 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 ...
On February 2, 2017 / By Athas ZafirisOn 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 ...
On December 30, 2016 / By Justin CivitilloIn a country renowned for charming cities and towns, Schiedam is always going to struggle to attract visitors. Part of Greater Rotterdam, it’s not that it lacks things ...
On December 21, 2016 / By Adam MuytHello 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 ...
On October 13, 2016 / By Athas Zafiris“I’ll never forget the thing Peter used to do, where he’d kick the ball, juggle it with his head, shoulders, back, knees, just standing, going bang, bang, bang,” ...
On September 29, 2016 / By Mark GojszykIn 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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