Tom Pollock's NCIP/ethnicity in Oz Soccer radio documentary
Tom Pollock, Swinburne media student and MFootball/Melbourne Knights media man about town, recently interviewed a bunch of the usual suspects about ethnicity in Australian soccer for a uni project. The...
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Donald Sutherland artefact Wednesday - 1954 South Melbourne United reserves
I was going to post this some time ago, but I wanted to get a few things checked out first. MFootball writer Donald Sutherland put this up on Twitter towards the start of the year. It's a photo of the...
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Book Review - David Winner's Brilliant Orange
David Winner's Brilliant Orange, an idiosyncratic look at Dutch football and its culture, is one of the more unusual soccer books I have ever read. (I read the updated version, which includes a chapter...
View ArticleTHANK FUCK FOR THAT!
In a forthcoming post about everything (well almost everything) that had happened during November, I was going to ask the question 'WHERE ARE MY (AND GAINS' AND HIS MATE CHRIS') FUCKING ASIAN CUP...
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Novermber 2014 digest
Some of the things that happened in November.I'm reliably told that when we do it, it's called recruiting, not poaching.Bonel 'Bones' Obradovic, central midfielder from Oakleigh, also ex-Northcote....
View ArticleFFA's Whole of Football extravaganza - Melbourne edition
So FFA had decided to do some old fashioned box ticking public consultation about the future of the Australian game. Part of that includes a survey, and the other part a traveling roadshow of heavy...
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Social club artefact Wednesday - Team of the Century team sheet
I found a small bunch of these during my social club clean out a few years back. Not being there on the team of the century night, I assume these were made available on all the tables. Of course, the...
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Book Review - Keep It Simple, Stupid - Peter Goldsworthy
Peter Goldsworthy is one of Australia's better known writers of literary fiction and poetry, as well as being one of its more lauded exponents in recent times. He's also someone whose work has managed...
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Calculator artefact Wednesday - Kimon Taliadoros, Playmaker of the Month
This was sourced from Australian soccer historian and Hellas fan Damian Smith. Two things about this image. Firstly, I've been waiting for a suitable time to put it up, but let's be honest, there was...
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Book Review - Sweet Time, by Graham Reilly
Graham Reilly's 2004 novel Sweet Time is a nostalgic look at the birth of a soccer club, and the community which created it, as an assortment of mostly Scottish migrants attempt to settle into their...
View ArticleSouth of the Border celebrates seven years of seething, and lesser seething
Fear and loathing are for the other 364 days of the year. Today is reserved for thanking the following people:The club, especially those who volunteer their time to keep it going week by week.The...
View ArticleDecember 2014 digest
Memberships are availableThe usual deal. Head here to make your purchase. Support your club. Good to see that entry to all home league and potential Dockerty and FFA Cup games is included.In...Dane...
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Totalitarian theocracy artefact Wednesday - Saudi Arabia FA pennant
With the Asian Cup starting this week, and what with the Saudis even visiting Melbourne next week to play North Korea (in a totalitarian theocracy derby, how apt), this seemed like as good as time as...
View ArticleFriendly against Dandenong City on Saturday
This Saturday we'll be playing our first pre-season match for 2015 against NPL1 side Dandenong City, at the unfortunate time of 10:30AM, at the even more unfortunate location of Somerville Secondary...
View Article2015 Asian Cup adventure - Day 1 - Self-Perpetuating Nostalgia Blues
Seeing as I have tickets to seven matches of the 2015 Asian Cup (along with Gains and his housemate), all in Melbourne. I really wanted to write something that was akin to the greatness of my World Cup...
View Article2015 Asian Cup adventure - Day 2 - A Greek in the Persian Empire
Breakfast TV (we've got a long way to go; or conversely, the mainstream media doesn't know what's news and what isn't)Sports round up this morning on Sunrise: Brisbane tennis, Hopman Cup final, Sam...
View ArticleSouth vs Pines tonight
Tonight South plays Frankston Pines out at Monterrey Reserve, with kickoff at 7:00PM. If you're not heading out to the Asian Cup like I am, it might be worth a look.
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2015 Asian Cup adventure - Day 3 - Kill the Buddha
PrologueI woke up in a foul mood yesterday, which may go some way towards explaining the following post.Going out for a patented Sideshow Bob 'vigorous constitutional' only made things worseAfter...
View ArticleSouth playing Langwarrin today
Out at Langwarrin, seniors at 3pm, reserves/20s at 1pm. Alas, once again I doubt that I'll be able to make it out there.
View Article2015 Asian Cup adventure - Day 4 - Slapdash
Crisis? What crisis?Upon reaching Richmond station, I realised that I had either forgotten to bring my match ticket, or had somehow lost it along the way. No matter; the issue was sorted out at the...
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