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    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 ...

    On May 13, 2016 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Australian Rules

    EXCLUSIVE: Essendon FC’s search for a ‘Capo’ interview tapes

    Last week, Essendon Football Club announced the launch of a new product, a first for the AFL, the ‘Active Area’. According to Essendon FC: This exclusive membership area ...

    On February 11, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football 1

    Fan division after derby demolition: The early evolution of Melbourne City FC

    Last weekend’s Melbourne Derby, the first between Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City, had AFL media types creaming their pants over the atmosphere, Victory fans gushing like Yosemite geysers ...

    On October 30, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football 8

    Does an insect have a heart? The early evolution of Melbourne City FC

    I am still trying to process what I experienced at Melbourne City’s first home game at AAMI Park last Sunday afternoon. Days later, as I’m typing this, the ...

    On October 22, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • 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 ...

    On April 15, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • 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 ...

    On January 30, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • 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 ...

    On January 2, 2014 / By Zoran Pajic
  • 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 ...

    On December 19, 2013 / By Athas Zafiris
  • 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 ...

    On November 29, 2013 / By Athas Zafiris
  • 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 ...

    On November 18, 2013 / By Athas Zafiris
  • 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 ...

    On November 15, 2013 / By Athas Zafiris
  • 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 ...

    On November 11, 2013 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football

    Kewell at 35: Man and Myth Collide in Mandurah

    While Harry Kewell’s time with the Melbourne Victory boiled down to little more than exhausting pre-signing antics and infrequent bouts of brilliance, his last hurrah with the Melbourne ...

    On October 22, 2013 / By Luke Dodemaide

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