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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
World Cup Farken: The Guide to surviving Brazilian TV Reporters, U.S. Soccer Fans and the rare dull game
This piece was supposed to be about the Japan v Greece match I attended at the Arena das Dunas in Natal last Thursday night. I really can’t be ...
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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 3
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 ...
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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
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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Football
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 ...
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Australian Rules
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A new design has entered the T-shirt Hall of Fame, joining iconic T-shirts designs like the “Austin 3:16”, “Choose Life” and “Vote for Pedro”. The new Shoot Farken ...
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Football 3
Soccer and Anzac: Forgetting and Remembering in Western Sydney
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 ...
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Football 6
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 ...
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Football
Melbourne Heart (City) to launch Red & White Buy-Back Scheme
In a Shoot Farken exclusive, we can reveal that Manchester City, the new mega-rich owners of A-League club Melbourne Heart, will soon be launching The Red & White ...
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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 ...
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Australian Rules
The Indispensable Football (as in Soccer) Fan’s Guide To AFL 2014
Are you a football fan who is interested in following an AFL team this season? Even outgoing AFL capo dei capi Andrew Demetriou once admitted that it was ...
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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 ...
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Football 1
Fumbling the Moneyball in the search for England’s Number One
It’s possible that I have a kind of childhood-goalkeeping-related risk-aversion OCD. I email myself at 2am so I don’t forget things I need to do in the morning, ...
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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 ...
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Football 4
The A-League is leaving MLS for dead when it comes to TV ratings
I intended to write this piece later in the year. I really did. But all it took was one tweet from a notorious A-League killjoy to change that. ...
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Football
How I Learned to Love the Offside Trap
I was schooled in the beauty of a well-sprung offside trap from an early age. My childhood memories are scant, but those that seemed to have left a ...
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Football 1
Remembering Johnny Warren: A Football Pilgrimage to Jamberoo
On the eve of the 17th Johnny Warren Memorial Cup, Shoot Farken brings you a piece by Mark Gojszyk on his pilgrimage to the Jamberoo Pub and his encounter ...
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Football
Shoot Farken Festivus: The Airing of A-League Match Day Grievances
I was wondering how to celebrate 100 days of Shoot Farken. Surely, this alternate Australian cybermedia mash-up with a core ingredient of football deserved something to mark the ...
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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 ...
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Football
Revenge of the Football Nerd: AVB the Movie
Loved and loathed in almost equal measure, script doctor Robert McKee’s book, Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Storytelling, sets out guiding principles on how to ...
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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 ...
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