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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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Football
Everything you wanted to know about winning the World Cup* (*But were afraid to ask)
If Sepp Blatter was a maths-y kind of bloke, there might come a time when he glances at the 5kg lump of gold shaped into the World Cup ...
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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 1
Fumbling the Moneyball in the search for England’s Number One
It’s possible that I have a kind of childhood-goalkeeping-related risk-aversion OCD. I email myself at 2am so I don’t forget things I need to do in the morning, ...
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Football
Snap, Kaká, Pop: Jack Lang’s Brazilian Football Adventure
It’s a big year for football and for Brazil, with the World Cup being held in the country that many view as the spiritual home of football. Of ...
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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
How I Learned to Love the Offside Trap
I was schooled in the beauty of a well-sprung offside trap from an early age. My childhood memories are scant, but those that seemed to have left a ...
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Football 1
Remembering Johnny Warren: A Football Pilgrimage to Jamberoo
On the eve of the 17th Johnny Warren Memorial Cup, Shoot Farken brings you a piece by Mark Gojszyk on his pilgrimage to the Jamberoo Pub and his encounter ...
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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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Sport
‘Boom Boom’ Days: Growing up with Grand Slams in Apartheid Era South Africa
Stan Wawrinka claimed his first Grand Slam title after conquering his nerves and dispatching one of the all-time tennis greats, Rafael Nadal, in the Australian Open final. Larry ...
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Football 2
‘Bastards Like Them’: Forgetting and Remembering the Father Figures of Indigenous Football
In the early 1950s a young Aboriginal footballer called Charlie Perkins started to be noticed in Adelaide. John Maynard in The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe points out that “Perkins ...
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Football
Revenge of the Football Nerd: AVB the Movie
Loved and loathed in almost equal measure, script doctor Robert McKee’s book, Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Storytelling, sets out guiding principles on how to ...
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Football 1
How Australia missed out on going to the 1930 World Cup
It is 10am on a Saturday and I’ve arrived with a friend at a bustling café in inner Sydney, having driven up from Melbourne the day before. Here ...
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Football 5
A Wogball Christmas: Soccerphobia’s hold on the Australian psyche
I caught up with a friend of mine recently at a coffee shop on Bourke Street. We talked about the previous year, the ailing fortunes of our respective ...
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Football
The Old Man, the Rooster and a morsel of pork: Melbourne Heart as Balkan parable
My cousin is a great storyteller. I don’t mean good at making up stories, he’s just a good raconteur. In a very ‘old world’ quality, he describes every ...
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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 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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Football
Anger Management: Can Muscat Tame the Beast Within?
Melbourne Victory enjoyed the dizzy, Disney-friendly days of Ange Postecoglou, gilded by the sparkling form of Marco Rojas, last year’s Johnny Warren medallist. But now with Kevin Muscat ...
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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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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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Australian Rules
Magpie Relegation Blues: Is the AFL Ready for a Second Division?
It’s a freezing Saturday afternoon in June at Trevor Barker Oval and the Zebras faithful wait for their team to run onto the field to greet the howling ...
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Football 1
What Holger Did Next
The former coach of the Australian men’s national football team, Holger Osieck, sits alone in the shabby study of his holiday chalet in the small Tyrolean town of ...
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Pop Culture
The Rock Star, The Playboy and the Revival of Japanese Pro Wrestling
Over in Japan, there’s been a legendary series of matches that have heralded a new golden age of pro wrestling. Dan Steadman takes a look. It’s hard to ...
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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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Sport
The Fight Georges St-Pierre Needs to Win
This weekend, UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre faces Johny Hendricks, but his true fight might be against his reputation. Dan Steadman writes. Fight fans have always argued about ...
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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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