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Australian Rules
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. ...
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Australian Rules 10
The forgotten story of the first ever game of Australian Rules football played in England
On Tuesday April 17, 1888, courtesy of that great innovation the electrical telegraph service, Australian newspapers including Melbourne’s The Age broke the news of a game of Australian ...
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Football 3
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 ...
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Football 2
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 ...
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Australian Rules
CARN: The rollicking story of the football league that swallowed an entire code
In 1896, football in the colony of Victoria was in crisis. Australian Rules football as played in Melbourne had become unwatchable and turned into box office poison. A ...
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Football
Angela Iannotta’s historic, unseen goal: the story of Australia’s first ever World Cup goalscorer in her own words
Like 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 ...
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Football
Reliving the last days of Yugoslavia with The Last Yugoslavian Team
“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. ...
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Football 2
The Heavy Sleeper’s 2018 World Cup Diary
Friday, 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 ...
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Football
Oracle of Delphi says France will win 2018 FIFA World Cup
On 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 ...
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Football
The incredible tale of the Newcastle Anzac who was offered a contract after scoring a hat-trick for Chelsea
On 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. ...
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Football
Andie Peci of the Bonek: The hard life and dangerous times of an Indonesian football ultra
The 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 ...
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Football
Imagining Romelu Lukaku: The black athlete as invented by white people
As 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 ...
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Football
Goodbye Les Murray, from one refugee to another
On 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 ...
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Australian Rules 7
REVEALED: The forgotten first match between a VFL team and an Aboriginal football team
On Tuesday, September 16, 1913, something occurred that should be commemorated within the annals of Australian Rules football, but has instead been completely forgotten. The first ever match ...
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Football 3
“Fake News” media hid Donald Trump’s spectacular football career
A 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 ...
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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
Hi-Ha-Hondelul: My family’s part in the moral downfall of Dutch football
In 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 ...
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Football
Yoshi Battles the Evil Sokkah Haters (with help from The Flaming Lips)
Hello 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 ...
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Football
In memory of Peter Grguric: The young star who was lost to football and claimed by the sea
“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,” ...
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Football
Games Goals Glory: Eleven seasons of A-League as cause for celebration
In 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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Football 3
Tom Rogic is…. A found poem to the man from the fan
Midday in sunny Glasgow on September 10, 2016. Tom Rogic strolls on to the perfectly manicured pitch at Celtic Park. The occasion is the Old Firm derby. The ...
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Football
When football’s Bad News Bears of Belize took on the Mennonites
The Junior Coach’s prayer Lord, hear me now, for I have forever changed my stance! No longer, Lord, will I scowl like the Devil at mothers and fathers ...
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Australian Rules
The small, strange canon of Aussie Rules songs just got bigger with “Bob Chitty’s Blues”
FOR all that Australian Rules football is played, watched, discussed, argued over and thought about, it resonates surprisingly little in the wider culture. There are some poems by ...
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Sport 1
How Waleed Aly tried to rope-a-dope Muhammad Ali and failed
When we write about people, we talk about the times that shaped them and the experiences they’ve had. How else do we begin to understand these complex figures — especially ...
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Australian Rules
Football: The Great Deradicaliser
Paris is no stranger to terror attacks. In recent memory we have had the awful events of the “Charlie Hebdo Shooting” and the “Paris Attacks” which included the ...
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Australian Rules 6
Cummeragunja: The Aboriginal football team that opened the eyes of White Australia
In the 1930s, Sir Doug Nicholls was one of only two Indigenous player plying his trade in top flight football in Melbourne. But he did not come out ...
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Football
Two seasons of Melbourne City: Still a pupa, but not as poop
When Melbourne City made their debut in October 2014 I took the David Attenborough route and described them as Melbourne Pupa FC. For those of you who didn’t ...
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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
Who will be The Biggest Choker? Shoot Farken’s A-League Grand Final Audio Preview
Who will become the first team to lose three A-League Grand Finals? That is the question on everybody’s lips. Choking honours will be on the line this Sunday ...
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Football 4
The dad who taught his daughter how to kick a football in the last days of Yugoslavia
My father Petar taught me a lot of things, a truth universally acknowledged by pretty much everyone in our inner circle. Before he passed away at the excruciatingly ...
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