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    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 ...

    On June 18, 2018 / By Paul Mavroudis
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    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 ...

    On June 13, 2018 / By Athas Zafiris
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    The Heavy Sleeper’s 2014 World Cup Diary: Complete and Unabridged

    One year ago today, the Shoot Farken website was launched. To celebrate the occasion we are proud to republish The Heavy Sleeper’s 2014 World Cup Diary. During the ...

    On October 22, 2014 / By Paul Mavroudis
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    Meet David Squires: Football Cartoon Genius (Accidental Sydney FC Fan)

    England’s best performance of the 2014 World Cup wasn’t produced on the pitches in Brazil, where The Three Lions were below average to put it politely. And it ...

    On September 23, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
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    “Un dia muy importante”: Costa Rica basks in its World Cup afterglow

    A transexual prostitute saunters into a seedy bar in San Jose, Costa Rica’s buzzing capital. She has a Joel Campbell badge fashionably pinned to her knock-off Louis Vuitton ...

    On September 4, 2014 / By Ben Munday
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    The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Italy v Uruguay, Greece v Côte d’Ivoire, France v Ecuador, Algeria v Russia

    Italy 0 Uruguay 1 How do we decide on whose terms any given match is played? If the match is played between two sides of considerable stylistic variance, ...

    On June 28, 2014 / By Paul Mavroudis
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    World Cup Farken: Screw the pseudo-football intellectuals, I’m jumping on the Uruguayan Magic Bus

    ‘I feel stupid and contagious Here we are now; entertain us’ Kurt Cobain Fuck, it must be hard. Fuck, it must be so hard staying up to watch ...

    On June 26, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
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    The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Australia v Spain, Croatia v Mexico

    Australia 0 Spain 3 I woke up at what would have been half time and considered the options – stay in bed, or find some courage and go find ...

    On June 24, 2014 / By Paul Mavroudis
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    The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Italy v Costa Rica, France v Switzerland, Honduras v Ecuador

    Italy 0 Costa Rica 1  Get up at 2:53am, and one choc ripple biscuit later I feel that I’m getting better at this business. I find that Costa ...

    On June 23, 2014 / By Paul Mavroudis
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    The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Spain v Chile, Cameroon v Croatia, Uruguay v England, Japan v Greece

    Spain 0 Chile 2  After comfortably surviving the early game, fatigue sets in during the one hour wait until the next game. TV is more moribund than usual ...

    On June 21, 2014 / By Paul Mavroudis
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    Oops! Wrong Country: How I Ended Up Watching the Socceroos in a Bolivian Jungle Town

    It’s a disturbingly unsettling 35 degrees. 100% humidity. Sweat seeps from every crack and orifice. There isn’t even a hint of an inkling of a gentle breeze to ...

    On June 21, 2014 / By Ben Munday
  • Football

    The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Germany v Portugal, Iran v Nigeria, USA v Ghana

    Germany 4 Portugal 0  I wake at 3:15am and, unlike yesterday, decide to make a fist of watching the rest of the early game between a genuine heavyweight ...

    On June 19, 2014 / By Paul Mavroudis
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    World Cup Farken: Believing to win with the Yanks

    Last Saturday night during the Italy v England match I tweeted. Natal weather update. Gone from raining cats and dogs to raining big Saint Bernards. Now I know ...

    On June 18, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
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    The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Côte d’Ivoire v Japan, France v Honduras, Argentina v BiH

    Côte d’Ivoire 2 Japan 1 Gary Bloom is commentating this match, and all I can think of is how much this feels like 1994, back when Bloom was ...

    On June 18, 2014 / By Paul Mavroudis
  • Football

    The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Australia v Chile, Uruguay v Costa Rica, Italy v England

    Chile 3 Australia 1 Unlike some other extant South Melbourne fans – a very small minority I assure you – I have no regrets about continuing to support the Socceroos ...

    On June 16, 2014 / By Paul Mavroudis
  • Football

    The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Brazil v Croatia, Spain v Netherlands

    Brazil 3 Croatia 1 Unusually toss and turn all night instead of sleeping like a brick, waking up in time to miss most of the anthems, which is ...

    On June 16, 2014 / By Paul Mavroudis
  • Football

    World Cup Farken: Puto!! Celebrating victory with the Mexicans

    The cancelled flight from Lisbon to Recife. The look on your face when you realise you will miss your connection to Natal. That sinking feeling when you depart ...

    On June 16, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football

    The Spirit of 74

    A rag-tag bunch of semi-professionals led by a street-wise war orphan arrived in West Germany 40 years ago to take on the football world’s elite. And so was ...

    On May 16, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
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    The Short Sad History of Shit Socceroos World Cup Songs

    After 32 years of hurt, Australian football fans have been blessed with three successive appearances in the World Cup. This most welcome blessing has also been accompanied by ...

    On May 7, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
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    Never Mind The Football: Punk’s World Cup Eleven

    THE PREAMBLE I am a simple man. I like my steak bloody, my wife in various forms of undress and my beer alcoholic. With the big “40” bearing ...

    On April 16, 2014 / By Ben Munday
  • 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 ...

    On March 18, 2014 / By Jack Martin
  • 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 ...

    On March 6, 2014 / By Athas Zafiris
  • 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 ...

    On February 18, 2014 / By Engel Schmidl
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    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
  • 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 ...

    On December 24, 2013 / By Athas Zafiris
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    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 ...

    On December 5, 2013 / By Athas Zafiris
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    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 ...

    On November 20, 2013 / By Engel Schmidl
  • Football

    The Life and Passion of St Ange

    Look yonder oh believer and ye shall be struck by the might of the holy fist pump of St Ange. For his story is the story of us ...

    On October 31, 2013 / By Athas Zafiris
  • Football

    Interior Monologue: When Frank Lowy Appointed Ange Postecoglou as Socceroos Coach

    A stream-of-consciousness mind dump from FFA chairman and shopping mall impresario Frank Lowy’s neurons in the moments leading up to, during, and just after he decided to appoint ...

    On October 25, 2013 / By Engel Schmidl
  • Football

    Logan’s Run: How a 70s Sci-Fi Movie Solved the Socceroos Ageing Crisis

    In case you didn’t realise, the life of a gilded Socceroo is eerily similar to the trailer of “Logan’s Run”. “Just imagine being a Socceroo, where you will ...

    On October 22, 2013 / By Athas Zafiris
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