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Melbourne Soccer: I'm Not A Racist, But....

Melbourne Soccer: I'm Not A Racist, But....: During the week an item on the FFA Cup website heralded the arrival of a new club called Shamrock Rovers Darwin. Quite how this club formed...

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The ‘Chimera’ of Origins: Association Football in Australia before 1880

In the July of 1880, a movement in Sydney seemed to crystallise.1A number of letters to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald were published, advocating the playing of football under the English...

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JW Harrison, Melbourne's First Named Soccer Writer

JW Harrison: Mark Boric and I have been wondering what happened to him and why his reports dried up in the Winner. Sadly, I've found the answer. He died on June 3 1918. As Mark suggests that means he...

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Anzac Day, by John Forbes

I think this is now my yearly Anzac Day ritual."Anzac Day" is one of John's final poems, written in the year before his death in 1998. He didn't care much for soccer, being a rugby league follower....

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The Week that Was

Last week was my busiest for a while: marking, lecturing and watching a veritable churn of my work going out into the public via various sources.My work on Soccer Anzacs in Victoria had reached a...

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Anzac forgetting and remembering

For Scott McIntyreAnzac Day continues to move us,& grow, despite attempts to make it a media event (left to them we’d attend‘The Foxtel Dawn Service’). But The March isproof we got at least one...

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Soccer on Albert Park 1953

This article from the Sporting Globe in 1953 is an important one. Written by J.O. (Owen) Wilshaw it points to a number of problems bedevilling soccer in Melbourne. It also reveals some interesting...

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South of the Border - a South Melbourne Hellas blog: Assorted reactions to...

South of the Border - a South Melbourne Hellas blog: Assorted reactions to FFA's Whole of Football Plan...: Now I

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South of the Border - a South Melbourne Hellas blog: Assorted reactions to...

South of the Border - a South Melbourne Hellas blog: Assorted reactions to FFA's Whole of Football Plan...: Paul Mavroudis responds to WOFP. Still the best commentator on Australian soccer. But are we...

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Assorted reactions to FFA's Whole of Football Plan

Paul Mavroudisthe unofficial voice  conscience of South Melbourne FCFirst published on Paul's South of the Border Blog Now I'm not going to go into too much detail about a document whose contents were...

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Falling in Love Again

I guess a Sunderland supporter is bound to keep falling in love, as per the Elvis song our fans have been singing for years.Ask Paul Mavroudis. I do keep falling in football love. And it's a long...

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Our Man in London

James Hothersall sent me these remarkable documents from London. They are copies from English football yearbooks in the 1880s. They give details I haven't yet found from Australian sources about...

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The violence that dare not speak its name

Adelaide fan helped out of Adeliade Oval by cheerful officers after spilling red cordial on himself early in season 2015Violence in Australian Rules Football Crowds3rd Update. Previously updated May...

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"Are they at war with Soccer?"

JJ Liston, powerbroker and diplomatJJ Liston is a curious figure. Well known in VFA circles, his soccer commitment is much less known. He was president of the VSFA from the mid thirties until his death...

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Karmichael Hunt Revisited

Here's a piece I published on the Roar 4 years ago. While I think I was generally right about the risks he posed to the AFL, I missed completely the central dilemma his defection would introduce. While...

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4 Melbourne soccer teams from 1909

Below are some very high quality photographs of four (or perhaps only three or even two) of the six teams to play soccer in Melbourne in 1909. The 6 teams can be seen in the fixture below for the first...

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From Detente to Distrust

These are the first two pages of my latest piece in the The International Journal of the History of Sport. Copyright prevents me sharing any more than the taster below. The whole article can be...

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Next goal the winner

Village football in Ayrshire, 1947 to the 1960sRoy HayOur family moved to the tiny little village of Straiton, in Carrick, the southern third of the county of Ayrshire in Scotland in 1947. It lies on...

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Multicultural Round, or "Spot the Wog"

This article appeared first in the Age as "A multicultural AFL? Not quite"13 July 2013. A year on and it was just as fresh. A year ago I tweaked it to reflect 2014 figures published by the AFL. Two...

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Victorian Soccer Fixtures and Results 1890

The teams in 1890 wereSouth MelbourneCarltonRoversWanderersSaturday 12 AprilPlayers 3 Spectators 1 at Middle ParkSaturday 5 July South Melbourne 4 Carlton 0 (George and George Cup) at Middle Park...

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