Browsing Category Football
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Football 1
No Amor for the new King of the Pissants
Ser Gio Syrio was not the type of man to let circumstances affect his performance. He approached his duties as a knight of the Pissantguard with vigour, regardless ...
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Football
Clogball: Remembering the Dutch football clubs of Australia
If you think the Dutch have never won a World Cup you’re mistaken: Holland won a World Cup back in the 1950s. Huh? More than 1.25 million European ...
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Football
The Red and Black Bloc Massacre
The big day had arrived. It was stinkingly hot. The mercury had brushed 40c earlier in the day in Sydney’s West. RBB (Red and Black Bloc) stalwart, Rob, ...
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Football
The Sincere and Sexy Football of Eduard Malofeev’s Dinamo Minsk
As a child, some things leave a bigger impression on you than others. These things often go on to become a template for how you measure and view other ...
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Football
No Pyro, No Party! My journey into the secret world of flaming hot smoking orange chuckable things
Tribune of Troof journalist Peter Rofl with a Shoot Farken EXCLUSIVE. “Stop the boats!” We hear you cry. But alas there is a greater menace lurking in the ...
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Football
If you build it, they will come: Turning Hindmarsh Stadium into a Field of Dreams
In the movie Field of Dreams, a farmer played by Kevin Costner hears a voice say “build it and he will come”. For some odd reason he decides ...
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Football
Dutch Football by the dunes: Escaping carnival chaos to watch Quick Boys
I took the bus from Leiden to Katwijk. Crowds filled the streets: amusement rides, fried food stalls, donut stalls, games machines, a ferris wheel filled the sides of ...
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Football
The song your A-League club should walk out to this season
Last week, Perth Glory CEO Peter Filopoulos jumped on social media and asked fans to suggest a tune for the team to walk out to on home match ...
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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 ...
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Football 2
Everybody hates the Pines: How Frankston’s football underdogs have survived 50 years
The 2011 season had been a disaster. In fact, so had the previous three. The club’s senior team had now been relegated four seasons in a row, going from the ...
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Football
Sheilas, wogs and poofters, Anzacs and Scott McIntyre
“Could you imagine Bruce McAvaney saying that?” “No, I couldn’t,” I said in response to my brother’s semi-rhetorical question about the senior AFL commentator. The sacking of SBS ...
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Football
Notes on an “Ultra” spectacular A-League Grand Final
The Game The game was no classic. Finals rarely are. Like waiting in the dark room in pre-digital days for a print to develop, we waited for a ...
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Football
English football with Cherries on top at The Valley
It is a tall trophy and it was cradled by the suited man as he descended some stairs, guided by a suited woman carrying a walkie-talkie. On to ...
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Football 1
The Passion, the Pain, and the Pissants: Charting 10 Years of Adelaide United
It goes without saying that Adelaide United’s brief existence has been a tumultuous one. Reds fan and ABC reporter Loukas Founten has been there since the first game ...
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Football
Modern football and urban alienation under the Golden Arches in Maastricht
An underground freeway is being built on the eastern edge of Maastricht. The current site is a broad expanse of dust. Middle of the range sedans and trucks ...
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Football 2
This is not the A-League but the Kids are definitely alright
Low-hanging gums creak welcomingly as we make our way down the cracked, undulating pathway. My son – torn between scurrying ahead and staying close to me – surveys ...
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Football 4
A Magyar homecoming at Melbourne’s Greek Derby
Just as we’re moving from one side of the ground to the other, South Melbourne score. For the 20 seconds or so we lose sight of the pitch, ...
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Football
FC Union Berlin vs FC St.Pauli: The search for the “authentic” football experience
1. FC Union Berlin vs. FC St.Pauli at Stadion An der Alten Försterei FC Union: 1: St.Pauli: 0 Football is a practice of cultural production. Being a fan ...
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Football
10 Anti-Racist Songs for the A-League’s #EraseRacism Round
This weekend, Round 22 of the Hyundai A-League will be played. It has also been named the ‘Erase Racism Round’. According to the media release from All Together ...
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Football 20
How a Coyote explains the defective logic of a Football Bitter
Diving into the world of social media has its positives and its negatives. For every pithy comment of genuine wisdom or link to an illuminating piece, where you ...
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Football
The Football Ticket as Memorabilia: A remembrance of a game past
I am reading James Montague’s book, Thirty-One Nil: On the Road with Football’s Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey. My book mark – my DPR Korea vs Saudi Arabia ...
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Football
The Birth of Football Mania (or how football replaced religion as the opium of the people)
In 1895 the renowned English sportsman (and polymath) Charles Burgess Fry noted that the burgeoning interest in Association football in the North of England was ‘almost a passion.’ ...
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Football
President Socceroo: The curious rise of Tim Cahill
In case you haven’t noticed, Tim Cahill has become the-I’ve-been-everywhere-and-done-everything-man. With the squabbling in the Liberal Party unresolved, given the prospect, the juggernaut that is ‘Timmy’ Cahill would ...
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Football
A Socceroos Fairy Tale: The fan who skipped the ball to watch the Asian Cup Final
Nevena Kesic is a football fan. She went to the ball on the night of the Asian Cup Final. Here she recounts how her night turned into a ...
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Football
A is for Ange: What it really means to be champions of ASIA
A is for Ange Postecoglou and his uncompromising idealism “Australia’s first ever Asian Cup triumph,” is the type of recent phrase routinely not attributed to the Matildas’ 2010 ...
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Football 1
How Israel became the lost tribe of Asian football
There’s some scratchy black and white archival footage on YouTube of Israel playing Iran in the 1968 Asian Cup Final. The match was played in Tehran and Iran beat defending ...
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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 ...
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Football
EXCLUSIVE: Tony Abbott’s Asian Cup Welcome
On the eve of hosting the biggest football tournament in Australia’s history, Shoot Farken has exclusively obtained Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s welcome to the 2015 Asian Cup. ...
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Football
An Open Christmas Letter To Mark Bosnich
Dear Mr. Bosnich, May I call you Bozza? I am writing, Bozza, to wish you a very merry Christmas and of course the happiest of happy New Year’s. ...
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Football
A Death in the Football Family: John Drynan’s Slice of Heaven
Watch out for the alpaca poo when you play football in the Drynan family’s idyllic backyard – especially if you play in bare feet. Four alpacas look on ...
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