Browsing Tag World Cup
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Heavy Sleeper’s 2014 World Cup Diary: Complete and Unabridged
One year ago today, the Shoot Farken website was launched. To celebrate the occasion we are proud to republish The Heavy Sleeper’s 2014 World Cup Diary. During the ...
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Meet David Squires: Football Cartoon Genius (Accidental Sydney FC Fan)
England’s best performance of the 2014 World Cup wasn’t produced on the pitches in Brazil, where The Three Lions were below average to put it politely. And it ...
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“Un dia muy importante”: Costa Rica basks in its World Cup afterglow
A transexual prostitute saunters into a seedy bar in San Jose, Costa Rica’s buzzing capital. She has a Joel Campbell badge fashionably pinned to her knock-off Louis Vuitton ...
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The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Italy v Uruguay, Greece v Côte d’Ivoire, France v Ecuador, Algeria v Russia
Italy 0 Uruguay 1 How do we decide on whose terms any given match is played? If the match is played between two sides of considerable stylistic variance, ...
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World Cup Farken: Screw the pseudo-football intellectuals, I’m jumping on the Uruguayan Magic Bus
‘I feel stupid and contagious Here we are now; entertain us’ Kurt Cobain Fuck, it must be hard. Fuck, it must be so hard staying up to watch ...
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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: 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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