Browsing Tag Socceroos
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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Socceroos Haiku: Ange Postecoglou Lost in Translation
In a plush hotel room in Osaka, in a steam filled bathroom, a hand reached out and turned off the super jet powered shower. For 30 minutes Ange ...
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Down, down, FIFA rankings are down: The New Socceroos Status Quo
The new FIFA rankings are out and, as usual, it’s only a slightly more reliable measure of quality than the top 40 music charts. When I started writing ...
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Ange Postecoglou and the Magic Lamp: How the Socceroos won the Asian Cup
On his final night in Doha, Ange Postecoglou suddenly remembered he had some shopping to do. His mind was still consumed by negative thoughts stemming from two uninspiring ...
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Football
Notes from the Ange Underground: The Socceroos v ‘Shoddy’ Arabia
Ange Postecoglou took some notes after this morning’s match against Saudi Arabia at Craven Cottage, London. Thanks to a mole in the Australian camp, Shoot Farken can exclusively ...
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Ça plane pour moi: Ange Postecoglou and the wisdom of Plastic Bertrand
Belgium. Hate the place. Full of smartarses, especially their journos. “You lost your five last games and you play against the fifth best team in the world. Are ...
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Football
How the World Cup led me to Miss Trans Star 2010 and rekindled my passion for the Socceroos
What do I, the Socceroos, and Miss Trans Star 2010 all have in common? Apart from similar reproductive organs, perhaps not much. However, we all made an appearance at ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tomi Juric or Josh Kennedy: Will the Colossus of Western Sydney go to the World Cup?
Tomi Juric or Josh Kennedy? This could very well be the scenario confronting Socceroos manager Ange Postecoglou. Does he choose the veteran hero Josh Kennedy, our Saviour who ...
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Football
A Scarred Socceroos Fan Reflects on the World Cup
When I am not watching football, I like to watch films. You can blame this on SBS TV’s effect on a young curious teenager. When SBS launched in ...
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What Holger Did Next
The former coach of the Australian men’s national football team, Holger Osieck, sits alone in the shabby study of his holiday chalet in the small Tyrolean town of ...
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Football
The Life and Passion of St Ange
Look yonder oh believer and ye shall be struck by the might of the holy fist pump of St Ange. For his story is the story of us ...
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Football
Interior Monologue: When Frank Lowy Appointed Ange Postecoglou as Socceroos Coach
A stream-of-consciousness mind dump from FFA chairman and shopping mall impresario Frank Lowy’s neurons in the moments leading up to, during, and just after he decided to appoint ...
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Football
Logan’s Run: How a 70s Sci-Fi Movie Solved the Socceroos Ageing Crisis
In case you didn’t realise, the life of a gilded Socceroo is eerily similar to the trailer of “Logan’s Run”. “Just imagine being a Socceroo, where you will ...
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Football
Green and Gold or Dead: Holger Osieck’s Socceroos Obituary
An ode to Holger Osieck inspired by the novel Red or Dead by David Peace. Athas Zafiris writes. Holger looked at his diary. Holger looked at the Socceroos ...
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Kewell at 35: Man and Myth Collide in Mandurah
While Harry Kewell’s time with the Melbourne Victory boiled down to little more than exhausting pre-signing antics and infrequent bouts of brilliance, his last hurrah with the Melbourne ...
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