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“Who do you barrack for, Tony?” A Timeless Tale of Australian Naturalisation

Station Pier in Port Melbourne was the first point of entry for hundreds of thousands of Australian immigrants seeking a better life in the The Lucky Country. One ...
On March 18, 2016 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On February 18, 2016 / By Engel Schmidl
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 ...
On February 10, 2016 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On December 18, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On November 27, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On November 19, 2015 / By Justin Civitillo
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 ...
On November 12, 2015 / By Adam Muyt
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, ...
On November 6, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On October 28, 2015 / By Engel Schmidl
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 ...
On October 22, 2015 / By Engel Schmidl
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 ...
On October 15, 2015 / By Loukas Founten
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 ...
On October 7, 2015 / By Andy Fuller
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 ...
On October 6, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On September 18, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
Australian Rules
Blacks and “Blacked-Up Whites” v Whites: The story of the strangest game of footy ever played

On Monday, June 11, 1900, Melbourne’s The Argus newspaper reported that a charity match was “played between 20 representatives of the Healesville Aboriginal Station and a team selected ...
On September 4, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
Australian Rules
Adam Goodes: (Black) Pride and (White) Prejudice

And so Adam Goodes will make his return to the Swans in their game against Geelong this weekend. Football might return to being about the result. Goodes might ...
On August 6, 2015 / By Andy Fuller
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 ...
On June 10, 2015 / By Engel Schmidl
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 ...
On May 22, 2015 / By Engel Schmidl
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 ...
On May 21, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On May 15, 2015 / By Andy Fuller
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 ...
On May 7, 2015 / By Justin Civitillo
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 ...
On April 22, 2015 / By Andy Fuller
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 ...
On April 16, 2015 / By Ed Vukovic
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, ...
On April 10, 2015 / By Engel Schmidl
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 ...
On April 1, 2015 / By Andy Fuller
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 ...
On March 20, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On March 12, 2015 / By Athas Zafiris
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 ...
On March 4, 2015 / By Andy Fuller
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.’ ...
On February 26, 2015 / By Matthew Klugman
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 ...
On February 19, 2015 / By Zoran Pajic

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