Newspaper and magazine writing collected here over two decades: comment, interviews and reporting on the Australian game.
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The paperback edition of , Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the Nineteenth Century: They Did Not Come from Nowhere has just been released…
Here are some of the reviews and podcasts about the paperback and hardback versions of Aboriginal People and Australian…
Two five-goal games end in victories for Lara United and Corio in the Morris Finance Cups (Click on photos below to…
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North Geelong Youth team recorded its first win in the Morris Finance Cup at Bell Park Sports Club on Sunday night, when they overcame an almost…
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Both opening games in the Cup are drawn Geelong’s long running pre-season competition kicked off at Bell Park Sports Club on Friday night. The first…
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If you are looking for a last minute Christmas present, why not consider one of the football books that tell the story of the world game in…
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‘Next goal the winner’: Village football in Ayrshire, 1947 to 1958 (Click or double-click on the photographs to enlarge them) Our family moved to the…
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Waltzing Matilda is still Australia’s unofficial national anthem in many people’s minds. The late Dennis O’Keeffe thought that at heart it was a love…
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ELTHAMbookshop, Veneto Club Melbourne and Hardie Grant Publishing invite you to celebrate with Meet and Bill Murray, academic historians and devoted…
You are invited to attend the launch of and Bill Murray, A History of Football in Australia: A Game of Two Halves…
A bibliography of Australian football The following list of books, articles, chapters, reports and other material…
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A leg weary Melbourne Victory conjured up another goal in injury time—this time the winner against Sydney FC in the A-League Elimination Final at…
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Andy Murray sliding for a fall. Source: Electronic Telegraph. Too much sport is never enough Here we are in Belfast with the Irish Open golf at…
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For two weeks before the Federal budget, the commentariat focused on the Reserve Bank’s misreading of the economic entrails arguing that it has…
(This article appeared in the Geelong Advertiser, 28 November 2011, p. 18 as' Red, white and blue in the top End.') A…
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Published in the Geelong Advertiser, 11 October 2011, p. 20 as 'My MacLove affair.' The death of Steve Jobs and the outpouring of interest in the man…
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Australian tank in the midst of a locust plague in 1974. Source: Australian Army Public Relations. (This article was published as , 'Biblical plague…
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Rosella and Galah in a shrubbery at Teesdale Species extinction and the human record This article was originally published in the Geelong Advertiser…
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Limits to growth (Published in the Geelong Advertiser, 15 June 2011 as 'Growth scare tactics.' Throughout history there have been times when…
Lindsay Tanner and the dumbing down of democracy (Published in the Geelong Advertiser on Wednesday 25 May 2011, p. 22…
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(Published in the Geelong Advertiser, 5 May 2011, p. 16.) If you were one of the lucky ones who chose to travel to the United Kingdom for the Royal…
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(Published in the Geelong Advertiser, 19 April 2011, p. 20 as 'Time to reassess the sanctity of surplus.' Except in an election year, the run-up to a…
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Teesdale from the air. The original proposal was for a sand quarry in the brown patch at the top left of the picture. What’s Teesdale worth? As they…
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The proposed extraction area begins just to the right of this photograph of the east end of Teesdale. Photographer: Neil Aird. This article was…
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Published in the Geelong Advertiser, 7 March 2011, p. 17 under the title 'Varied, volatile and voracious.' Even framing the question, ‘What is going…
(Published in the Geelong Advertiser on 15 December 2010, p. 28, as 'Shelves till buckle under a book or two'.) Another…
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When people asked me earlier this year could the Socceroos do it, I used to try to cheer them up by saying, ‘We always qualify for the World Cup in…
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Melbourne Victory continued its dismal run of recent results with a two-nil loss at home to Central Coast Mariners at Olympic Park last night in…
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Why do grown men weep for little boys who do not grow up? Do they weep for themselves? In a lifetime following football I can remember few more…
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Coming down from Far North Queensland in the plane this week I found myself in the company of an Italian-Australian, one of large group of fellow…
I thought I was a fairly seasoned traveller, but a day spent recovering after the Australia versus Brazil match in…
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The Materazzi-Zidane incident may turn out to be a storm in a tea cup, but for the moment it is occupying hectares of space in the media around the…
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After five drawn games, Melbourne Victory finally got its first win of the season by two goals to nil against Queensland Roar at Telstra Dome last…
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Melbourne Victory came back from the dead to snatch a two-all draw with Adelaide United at Telstra Dome on Saturday night before 22,466 spectators to…
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I am not sure SESA should be encouraging others to risk their money, but if you have the entrepreneurial spirit and you want to have a flutter in…
Geelong’s star football (soccer) goalkeeper, Joey Didulica, tied the knot with his bride Kate Dzidzic at St Monica’s…
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Where did what we now call Australian Rules football come from? Many people still believe that the game was influenced by Gaelic football, an…
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Geelong has five senior clubs, North Geelong, Geelong, Corio, Geelong Rangers and Bell Park. Each grew out of a particular migrant community…
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Is it time to scrap the Australian youth coaching scheme and replace it with what went before or something based on Brazilian or French models as…
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Getting to the World Cup was hard enough, but now Australia faces the current and five times world champion, Brazil, European powerhouse Croatia and…
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Much as everyone connected with association football in Australia wants the new A-League to succeed the signs at present are not as rosy as the…
Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday 17 January 2007, p. 21. On Monday there was trouble at the tennis with young men in…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 21 June 2008, p. 43. Who says sport and politics don’t mix? At the personal level they definitely do. In Geelong we have…
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Geelong Advertiser , Monday 22 October 2007, p. 33. Putting its off-field problems with star recruit Ljubo Milicevic behind it, Melbourne Victory…
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Geelong Advertiser, Monday, 17 December 2007, p. 42. Melbourne Victory effectively surrendered its chance of playing in this year’s final series when…
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Geelong Advertiser, Tuesday 4 March 2008, p. 13. As Australians embark on coming to terms with some of the episodes in their past, including what…
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Geelong Advertiser, Thursday, 22 February 2007, p. 19 I know how those people in Britain felt in 1752 when the United Kingdom and its empire finally…
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Published as Coal hard facts, Geelong Advertiser, Monday, 12 February 2007, p. 15. What should be do about coal? For the last 300 years coal has been…
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Published as 'Untold story of sports rorts', Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday, 14 May 2008, p. 23. Have you ever wondered how much our national…
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Published as 'World stage: Aussies unite behind Socceroos', Geelong Advertiser, Friday 6 July 2007, p. 17. Why would you want to spend time in…
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Published as 'China Syndrome', Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 20 September 2008, p. 33. I wonder about the implications of the financial and economic…
The third annual volume of Geelong’s own literary magazine Space was launched in the Limelight Lounge by novelist and…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 5 January 2008, p. 31. The turn of the year is a time to take stock. But why? What is it about certain dates or events…
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Geelong Advertiser, Monday,26 March 2007, p. 17 Do people play card games at home any more? It is not so very long ago that card nights were a highly…
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Published as 'Ethnics rule', Geelong Advertiser, Monday 20 August 2007, p. 15. The American social psychologist and political analyst Robert Putnam…
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Tomorrow an Australian sports team will embark on a great new adventure. For the first time the Socceroos will take part in the Asian Cup, the…
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Geelong Advertiser, Monday 15 May 2009, p. 19. If Baz Luhrmann’s Australia was not Australia’s greatest film of recent times, then a small…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday, 2 June 2007, p. 37 They say a week is a long time in politics, but the events of the last week suggest that…
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Published as 'New lessons', Geelong Advertiser, Monday 22 December 2008, p. 19. The Bradley Report into Australia’s higher education handed down this…
Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 22 July 2006, p. 39. Sex and galahs. Have I got your attention with that opening? Well…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 4 August 2007, p. 33. Listening to the radio last night, I heard that Australian motorcyclist Casey Stoner who leads the…
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Published as Troubled skies, Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 23 December 2006, p. 25. In the last few months there has been a surge of financial…
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Published as 'Death, taxes and insurers', Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 12 January 2008, p. 33. Winding up my mother-in-law’s small estate after her…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 15 December 2007, p. 39. We sometimes get a very distorted view of Australia’s place in the world from our media…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 23 September 2006, p, 33. Public bodies and private corporations throughout Australia have been engaged in a massive…
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Published as 'Footy fiction', Geelong Advertiser, Tuesday 16 October 2007, p. 15. by The recent rediscovery of an etching at the Museum of Victoria…
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An edited version appeared as 'The day a nation pooled its anger', Geelong Advertiser, Monday 27 November 2006, p. 15. Yet more journalism archives…
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Published as 'Balancing act', Geelong Advertiser, Monday 20 October 2008, p. 15. While most attention has focused on the provision of computers to…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 6 January 2007, p. 25. One of the joys of the Christmas and New Year holidays is the chance, once the festivities are…
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Geelong Advertiser, Monday,12 March 2007, p. 15 In the last few years parts of rural Victoria have had to cope with drought, bush fires and floods…
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Geelong Advertiser, Monday 28 July 2008, p. 21. Like many people I have had a flickering interest in the Tour de France for many years, especially…
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Published as 'UK paves way', Geelong Advertiser, Monday, 23 April 2007, p. 17 Tony Blair is coming to the end of his period as leader of the Labour…
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Age, Sport, Monday 3 December 2007, p. 12. Dear Kevin No, I haven’t played the game at professional level, so I don’t know first hand the situations…
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Australian and British Soccer Weekly, Tuesday 9 October 2007, p. 14. Last month I was at the 25th annual conference of the British sports historians…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 3 February 2007, p. 31. Education looks like it will be one of the big issues at the next election, with both major…
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My wife turned down a trip to Paris this week. We have been married so long, she knows which questions to ask and when I asked if she fancied Paris…
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Published as 'Battle of carrot versus stick', Geelong Advertiser, Thursday 13 November 2008, p. 23. Rupert Murdoch’s second Boyer Lecture on the ABC…
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Published as 'Fears surrendering our freedoms', Geelong Advertiser, Saturday, 5 May 2007, p. 33 Watch television, read the news or listen to the…
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Published as ' Footy facts', Geelong Advertiser, Thurday 31 July 2008, p. 21. The Newspapers in Education column of the Geelong Advertiser is one of…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 26 August 2006, p. 35. We have a curious situation in Australia in 2006. Australian history is a tiny part of the school…
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Geelong Advertiser, Monday 15 December 2008, p. 17. My wife is profoundly deaf and even with two hearing aids finds oral communication, particularly…
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Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday 21 November 2007, p. 19. When sports officials want to bring someone to heel they often resort to an omnibus charge of…
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Published as 'Crowd antics not manufactured', Geelong Advertiser, Saturday, 7 April 2007, p. 35 We saw both sides of the world game this week. St…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 11 November 2006, p. 35. Do you ever wonder about the contradictory notions which surround the current debates and…
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Published as 'PC Footbrawl', Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 17 May 2008, p. 37. Here in Australia we have one of best games of football on the planet…
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Published as 'Praise them' Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday 10 October 2007, p. 23. The notion of football as a secular religion is an old one. Marx…
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Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday, 9 August 2006, p. 39. It’s been a bad few weeks for the image of top-class sport in Australia and around the world. We…
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Published as 'Vice squad', Geelong Advertiser, Monday 6 October 2008, p. 15. Much is being made in the United States election campaigns of the…
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Published as 'Reality check', Geelong Advertiser, Friday 11 July 2008, p. 21. The 500-page Garnaut report on what Australia should do about climate…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday, 12 January 2008, p. 95. Melbourne Victory defeated Wellington Phoenix by three goals to nil in its last game at Telstra…
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Published as 'New Evidence: When did Aborigines first play Aussie rules?', Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday 21 October 2009, p. 21. The footy season is…
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Published as 'Quality first', Geelong Advertiser, Monday 29 September 2008, p. 17. I hold no shares in Telstra, but I have been a customer of the…
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Published as 'Lifting the bar', Geelong Advertiser, Monday 1 December 2008, p. 17. Isn’t it fascinating when you have Rupert Murdoch and Julia…
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Published as 'Pollution is nothing new', Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday 6 August 2008, p. 00. The debate on climate change policy is becomingly…
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Geelong Advertiser, Tuesday 4 December 2007, p. 13. It is the season of publishers’ catalogues, booksellers promotions, book launches and…
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Geelong Advertiser, Thursday 24 January 2008, p. 19. As the United States home loan debacle continues to bring low major American financial houses…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 9 September 2006, p. 35. Well, well, who would have thought it? No footy finals in Melbourne after this week-end for two…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday, 3 March 2007, p. 13 The Australian stockmarket took a dive earlier this week. A needed correction or the end of the…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 29 October 2005, p. 39. Have you noticed a change in the way laws are being made in this country? Instead of introducing…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday, 16 June 2007, p. 41 Do you often get the feeling that there is just too much information hitting your brain these days?…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday, 19 May 2007, p. 33 The ABC was at its very best this week when it ran Bastard Boys over two nights on Sunday and…
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Geelong Advertiser, Thursday, 20 March 2008, p. 19. I was in my favourite local computer store the other day picking up some new software and…
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Published as 'Evidence the key to our game's origins', The Age, Saturday 31 May 2008, Insight, p. 9. Perhaps we might make a little more sense out of…
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Geelong Advertiser, Monday 23 July 2007, p. 15. What has happened to the land of the fair go? It used to be that we judged people on what they did…
The page on which this column appears is called Perspective and I certainly gained some perspective on life when my…
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Sav Blanc, SA nudists (Advertiser headline), Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 9 December 2006, p. 56. Some of the best holidays are just on our doorstep…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 9 December 2006, p. 39. The Australian Labor Party has cast the dice with the appointment of the ‘dream team’ of Kevin…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 21 October 2006, p. 39. Do you ever get the feeling that we are at a pivotal point in the history of the world? Just to…
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‘British Football, Wogball or the World Game? Towards a social history of Victorian Soccer’, in John O’Hara (ed.), Ethnicity and Soccer in Australia…
Melbourne Victory 2 Gold Coast United 0 Diogo Ferreira keeps the ball in play to start another Victory attack Melbourne…
Melbourne Victory 2 Melbourne Heart 2 Melbourne Victory and Melbourne Heart shared the points in a two-all draw in the…
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The Use and Abuse of Oral Evidence , Deakin University Press, Geelong, 1986, pp. 24. Amended and updated. © Deakin University and SESA. Click on link…
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Edward W Humphreys Published by SESA, March 2014 The spectacular Anzac Day March in Melbourne in 1921 almost…
Melbourne Victory Women 1 (Jodie TAYLOR 21’) Canberra United Women 0 The meeting of Melbourne Victory and Canberra…
Istvan Luczo (2 June 1934–26 April 2012) Istvan (Steve) Luczo of Corio Soccer Club was one of the most familiar but…
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Melbourne Victory and leadership In all the outpouring of criticism of Kevin Muscat for his violent assault on Adrian Zahra during the Melbourne…
Host club and defending champion North Geelong had a comfortable five–one win over Lara in the Diversity Cup on Sunday…
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Ian Warren and have published ‘“Fencing them in”: The A-League, Policing and the Dilemma of Public Order,’ Soccer and Society, vol. 10, no. 1 January…
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has just completed the first chapter of a new history of the Geelong Football Club, ‘A Club is born,’ in John Murray, ed., We are Geelong: The Story…
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The NSW under-15s won the 1994 national championships at Kim Reserve, Altona, with a team which included Harry Kewell and Brett Emerton (front row…
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Melbourne Heart and Central Coast Mariners draw one-all Melbourne Heart needed a win over Central Coast Mariners to…
Melbourne Heart 2 North Queensland Fury 0 Melbourne Heart's Adrian Zahra streaks clear of Bradley McDonald of…
Melbourne Heart 1 Gold Coast United 1 Melbourne Heart and Gold Coast United shared the points in a one-all draw at AAMI…
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Recently I attended a performance by Danny Spooner, a former student of mine, at Wurrong, near Camperdown, which recounted the incredible story of…
George Wallace, 5 August 1926–11 January 2011. George Wallace served in the British army in the 1940s and again in the…
Melbourne Victory keeps up winning run over Newcastle Jets Melbourne Victory took on Newcastle Jets in a match critical…
Western Wolves 0 North East Diamonds 3 (Pasquale VIZZARI 52’ 82’, Anthony RAMZY 90 + 5’) North East Diamonds celebrate…
Melbourne Victory 1 Adelaide United 4 Melbourne Victory was comprehensively defeated by Adelaide United at AAMI Park by…
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gave a talk to the 150 Years of Football Conference, University of Melbourne and Victoria University on 15 July 2008. He also contributed to a…