Browsing All Posts By Paul Mavroudis
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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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Pop Culture
Nuts! The story of the man who got rich transplanting goat testicles into men
Penny Lane’s documentary Nuts! works best if you have no idea who John Brinkley is; in that way, one is able to experience Brinkley as much of his ...
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Football
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 ...
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Australian Rules
How to turn a buck from sport in the World’s Most Liveable City
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but if someone else pays for it, it’s close enough. I managed to score a free* ticket to Victoria University’s ...
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Football
The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Brazil v Netherlands, Germany v Argentina
Brazil 0 Netherlands 3 I wake up at 3:00am in a foreign city in a foreign country – you’d perhaps call it Sydney, New South Wales – and ...
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Football
The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Brazil v Germany, Netherlands v Argentina
Brazil 1 Germany 7 It’s only on a Saturday morning, now three or four days after the event that I can make sense of the whole affair, my ...
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Football
The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Argentina v Belgium, Netherlands v Costa Rica
Argentina 1 Belgium 0 Dear Mr Tyler, proselytising does not suit you, especially at 2:15 in the morning our time or whenever it was you decided to have ...
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Football 1
The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Germany v France, Brazil v Colombia
France 0 Germany 1 Because I somehow got roped into watching two episodes of the 1997 adventure series Conan the Adventurer – think Hercules or Xena, but with about 1/10th of the budget, awful ...
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Football
The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Germany v Algeria, Argentina v Switzerland, Belgium v USA
Germany 2 Algeria 1 Who knows what the problem was, but I only managed to get up at about 7:00, so I completely missed the first half of ...
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Football
The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Brazil v Chile, Colombia v Uruguay, Costa Rica v Greece
Brazil 1 Chile 1 – Brazil win on penalties In the Elizabethan ‘Great Chain of Being’, there’s a place for everything and everything is in its place. God ...
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Football
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, ...
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Football
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 ...
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Football
The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Germany v Ghana, Nigeria v BiH, S Korea v Algeria, USA v Portugal
Germany 2 Ghana 2 Martin Tyler is the king of English language commentators for all sorts of different reasons; his professionalism, his wide-ranging knowledge, the way he reads ...
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Football
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 ...
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Football
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 ...
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Football
The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Brazil v Mexico, Russia v S Korea, Australia v The Netherlands
Brazil 0 Mexico 0 I am woken gently by my old man at 5:10am and asked, the way that substitute teachers are apparently asked, if I would like ...
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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 ...
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Football
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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