NPL VIC Round 19/18
NPL ROUND 19: Port Melbourne Sharks SC 1 Green Gully SC 1(HT: 0-0)Northcote City FC 1 South Melbourne FC 1(HT: 0-0) Goulburn Valley Suns FC 1 Melbourne Knights FC 1(HT: 0-0) Dandenong Thunder SC 1...
View ArticleNPLVIC Round 21/20/19
NPLROUND 20Pascoe Vale SC 0 Werribee City FC 2(HT: 0-1)Dandenong Thunder SC 1 Northcote City FC 1(HT: 1-1)Port Melbourne Sharks SC 3 Ballarat Red Devils SC 1(HT: 0-0)Green Gully SC 1 Heidelberg United...
View ArticleNPL results and tables Rounds 22 and 20
NPLROUND 20Bentleigh Greens SC 2 South Melbourne FC 1(HT: 0-0) ROUND 22Port Melbourne Sharks SC 0 Melbourne Knights FC 1 (S. Andrijasevic 1)(HT: 0-0)Green Gully SC 0 Hume City FC 1(HT: 0-1)Heidelberg...
View Article10,000 people at the footy, July 1875
One thing that has always puzzled me is the assertion that high scoring leads to excitement and the popularity of a sport. This is an argument used against soccer (in which the average goals-per-game...
View ArticleDaniel Orbach, rising football media star?
Daniel Orbach, a year 12 student in Melbourne, has put together this short documentary video about the perception of soccer in the media and society generally. Technically it is excellent with great...
View ArticleNPLVIC Round 24 and 22
NPL ROUND 24Bentleigh Greens SC 1 Oakleigh Cannons FC 4(HT 1-3)Pascoe Vale SC 0 Dandenong Thunder SC 0(HT 0-0)Green Gully SC 1 Port Melbourne Sharks SC 2(HT 0-0)Ballarat Red Devils SC 1 Werribee City...
View ArticleA new reason not to play soccer, from 1905
TheMurrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette in 1905 found a reason to object to soccer that I have not seen before. It dilutes the strength of the other codes!Sure it uses the old 'foreign money',...
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Gallipoli Veteran Stuck With Soccer
This is a nice piece passed on by Roy Hay.Keith Gilmour, ‘Gallipoli veteran stuck with soccer’, Soccer World, 7 October 1966, p. 2.
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Telling Fibs for Footy
John Silvester's piece in today's Age reminded me of the following piece I published in March 2013. Silvester spews out his usual self-loathing-pommy soccerphobic bile by making up stories about crowd...
View ArticleSoccer Player Enlistments 1915. A vital founding document.
This is the article I've been searching for — a kind of foundation point for the database of Victorian soccer soldiers in WW1. Of the 500 or so who enlisted, 114 are named below, alongside their clubs,...
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Soccer's regeneration in Melbourne 1907[1908]. The First Committee
This photo and attached text are great material. They give us a sense of organisational energy and commitment to the game upon its regeneration in Melbourne. However, the article also shows the problem...
View ArticleSoccer registrations reach 600 in pre-WW1 Melbourne
This article is from The Winner, 5 August 1914, only just over 100 years ago. It demonstrates a number of things. First it shows the value of The Winner as an historical source for soccer historians...
View ArticleRohan Connolly: 100 years too late?
Barely over 100 years ago, the Melbourne Argus published a report (below left) on the growth of soccer in Melbourne. Written by an habitual follower of VFL, it acknowledged that soccer was going...
View ArticleFIFA and World Cups 2018 and 2022
by Roy HaySurprise, surprise. The FIFA inquiry into corruption in the bidding process for the World Cups in 2018 and 2022 has now been completed. The two countries whose media have been most vociferous...
View ArticleAt least they don't do this any more . . .
Vandals at OvalBy Morrie BucknerVandals tried to burn down the grandstands at Middle Park soccer stadium on Friday night. Several rows of seats were charred. The vandals also chopped down both sets of...
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2015 Lakeside, 2012 Mooney Valley; 1954 Revisited.
Postscript PrologueHere we go again, again, again, again. Peter Rolfe has written a Hun article essentially blaming ("second-tier club" - oooh, in the ribs!) South Melbourne FC for spoiling the fun for...
View ArticleSoccer player occupations in Melbourne 1914
This list might be vaguely interesting for some people. It gives the occupation of 86 out of 600 Melbourne soccer players prior to the First World War. It says some fairly interesting things about...
View ArticleSoccer reporting in 1915 Melbourne
This is a nice example of the calibre of soccer reporting produced by one element the Melbourne press in 1915. J.W Harrison in the Winner produced some terrific articles that gave broad coverage to the...
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I Am Not a Professional Historian: I’m a Human Being
I am not a professional historian. Yes, I get paid to research and write. And yes, I write history. But I am not a professional historian.I came to my history work through the back door. More...
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Australian soccer teams from World War 1
These are randomly selected photographs from the Australian War Memorial collection. They represent teams of Australian soccer players or games of soccer being played by Australians during World War 1....
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