Browsing Tag Football
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Football
REVEALED: The earliest confirmed game of Association Football in NSW was played 1878, not 1880.
History 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 ...
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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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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
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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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
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
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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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
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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Football 2
Soccer is small, football is big: The cultural dissonance of promotion-relegation in Australia
AFL franchise club Greater Western Sydney won the “wooden spoon” in its inaugural season of 2012 and then again in 2013. A few years before that, in the ...
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Football
Clogball: Remembering the Dutch football clubs of Australia
If you think the Dutch have never won a World Cup you’re mistaken: Holland won a World Cup back in the 1950s. Huh? More than 1.25 million European ...
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Football
No Pyro, No Party! My journey into the secret world of flaming hot smoking orange chuckable things
Tribune of Troof journalist Peter Rofl with a Shoot Farken EXCLUSIVE. “Stop the boats!” We hear you cry. But alas there is a greater menace lurking in the ...
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Football
How Melbourne Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Soccer (well almost)
“Perhaps only in Melbourne does a brooding, hidebound and monolithic structure of feeling dominate, where other codes are sometimes humoured and usually dismissed as inferior.” – Dr Ian Syson, academic ...
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Football
Sheilas, wogs and poofters, Anzacs and Scott McIntyre
“Could you imagine Bruce McAvaney saying that?” “No, I couldn’t,” I said in response to my brother’s semi-rhetorical question about the senior AFL commentator. The sacking of SBS ...
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Football 2
This is not the A-League but the Kids are definitely alright
Low-hanging gums creak welcomingly as we make our way down the cracked, undulating pathway. My son – torn between scurrying ahead and staying close to me – surveys ...
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Football 4
A Magyar homecoming at Melbourne’s Greek Derby
Just as we’re moving from one side of the ground to the other, South Melbourne score. For the 20 seconds or so we lose sight of the pitch, ...
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Football
FC Union Berlin vs FC St.Pauli: The search for the “authentic” football experience
1. FC Union Berlin vs. FC St.Pauli at Stadion An der Alten Försterei FC Union: 1: St.Pauli: 0 Football is a practice of cultural production. Being a fan ...
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Football
10 Anti-Racist Songs for the A-League’s #EraseRacism Round
This weekend, Round 22 of the Hyundai A-League will be played. It has also been named the ‘Erase Racism Round’. According to the media release from All Together ...
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Football 20
How a Coyote explains the defective logic of a Football Bitter
Diving into the world of social media has its positives and its negatives. For every pithy comment of genuine wisdom or link to an illuminating piece, where you ...
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Football
The Football Ticket as Memorabilia: A remembrance of a game past
I am reading James Montague’s book, Thirty-One Nil: On the Road with Football’s Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey. My book mark – my DPR Korea vs Saudi Arabia ...
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