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    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 ...

    On October 13, 2016 / By Athas Zafiris
  • 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 ...

    On September 18, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football 2

    How Melbourne’s newspapers ignored the Asian Cup and let down the Muslim community

    A few days ago, on Australia Day, I read this letter in Melbourne’s The Age newspaper. I, too, was lucky enough to have experienced “all the fun and ...

    On January 29, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
  • 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 ...

    On January 23, 2014 / By Ian Syson
  • 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 ...

    On January 16, 2014 / By Mark Gojszyk
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    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 ...

    On January 10, 2014 / By Ed Vukovic

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