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 ...
On July 17, 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 ZafirisAs 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 ZafirisHello 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 ...
On September 16, 2016 / By Athas ZafirisMidday 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 ...
On September 13, 2016 / By Athas ZafirisThe 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 ...
On July 29, 2016 / By Ben MundayParis 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 ...
On June 10, 2016 / By Athas ZafirisWhen 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 ...
On May 13, 2016 / By Athas ZafirisWho 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 ...
On April 30, 2016 / By Shoot FarkenMy 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 ...
On March 22, 2016 / By Nevena KesicAFL 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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