Browsing Category Football
-
Football 1
Craig Foster was the gateway drug to my football addiction: Getting ripped off by yet another streaming service and loving it
Maybe it was sleep deprivation. Maybe it was lockdown melancholy. Or perhaps it was wistful, sentimental nostalgia. But watching the post-game show after that breathless Liverpool – AC ...
-
Football
REVEALED: The earliest confirmed game of Association Football in NSW was played 1878, not 1880.
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 ...
-
Football 2
The ties that bind: Ange, Ferenc and their Celtic connection
In the corner of a park near the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia, is a statue of a nuggety, muscular man born on the 1st ...
-
Football
The story of the “Soccer” Anzac from Minmi who became a hero on the way to war (and never made it back)
Soccer has trouble remembering itself. This failing leaves it open to accusations of foreignness and unbelonging, accusations levelled from without and often complacently accepted from within. One of ...
-
Football 3
Finding Eadie Fraser: The story of how one of Scotland’s earliest football stars ended up buried in the Australian bush
Twenty 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 ...
-
Football 2
They call him Judy: The day an Australian coal miner challenged English football supremacy
Sydney, 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 ...
-
Football
Angela Iannotta’s historic, unseen goal: the story of Australia’s first ever World Cup goalscorer in her own words
Like 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 ...
-
Football
Reliving the last days of Yugoslavia with The Last Yugoslavian Team
“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. ...
-
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 ...
-
Football
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 ...
-
Football
The incredible tale of the Newcastle Anzac who was offered a contract after scoring a hat-trick for Chelsea
On Tuesday, July 16, 1918, Newcastle’s football community opened their local paper, The Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, to catch up on the latest news and gossip. ...
-
Football
Andie Peci of the Bonek: The hard life and dangerous times of an Indonesian football ultra
The re-launch of the Go-jek Traveloka Indonesian Football League saw the return of Persebaya from several years in non-playing wilderness. This was a struggle played out on the ...
-
Football
Imagining Romelu Lukaku: The black athlete as invented by white people
As 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 ...
-
Football
Goodbye Les Murray, from one refugee to another
On 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 ...
-
Football 3
“Fake News” media hid Donald Trump’s spectacular football career
A 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 ...
-
Football
How Amor’s Pissants plunged from Paradise to Purgatory
On May Day 2016, Adelaide United finally came of age. Since its formation in 2003, the Reds had promised much, yet delivered little in the tangible form of ...
-
Football
Hi-Ha-Hondelul: My family’s part in the moral downfall of Dutch football
In a country renowned for charming cities and towns, Schiedam is always going to struggle to attract visitors. Part of Greater Rotterdam, it’s not that it lacks things ...
-
Football
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 ...
-
Football
In memory of Peter Grguric: The young star who was lost to football and claimed by the sea
“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,” ...
-
Football
Games Goals Glory: Eleven seasons of A-League as cause for celebration
In 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 ...
-
Football 3
Tom Rogic is…. A found poem to the man from the fan
Midday 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 ...
-
Football
When football’s Bad News Bears of Belize took on the Mennonites
The 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 ...
-
Football
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 ...
-
Football
A Pissant Fairytale: How a City of Chokers became a City of Champions
Prologue With a population of just 1.7m – nearly a million fewer residents than the next (4th) most populous Australian state, Western Australia (2.6m), it probably isn’t too surprising ...
-
Football
Who will be The Biggest Choker? Shoot Farken’s A-League Grand Final Audio Preview
Who 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 ...
-
Football 4
The dad who taught his daughter how to kick a football in the last days of Yugoslavia
My 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 ...
-
Football 2
Soccer is small, football is big: The cultural dissonance of promotion-relegation in Australia
AFL 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 ...
-
Football
Stop The Flares! FFA proposes to swap children detained in Nauru with A-League troublemakers
Shoot Farken can exclusively reveal that Football Federation Australia (FFA) has approached the Federal Government, namely the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, in a desperate bid to ...
-
Football
A Season at Le Havre: The Story of Harry Novillo the Hare and Riyad Mahrez the Tortoise
Harry Novillo woke up bleary-eyed on a fine, early summer morning in Melbourne. He switched on the television, then walked into the kitchen to make his bowl of ...
-
Australian Rules 2
The Shoot Farken Guide to naming and shaming Australia’s Sporting Hooligans
On September 12, 1885, the Fitzroy Football Club (merged with the Brisbane Bears to become Brisbane Lions in 1997) hosted the South Melbourne Football Club (Sydney Swans since ...
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 5
- Next Page »
Subscribe & Follow
