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Shoot Farken
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History is not fixed. It is ever shifting. The past will always reveal something new and then another history will be rewritten only for it to be rewritten again and again until the end of time. Yesterday, Garry McKenzie, one of Australia’s finest sporting history detectives, made one of the most significant discoveries in Australian sporting history. A confirmed game of Association ...
In the corner of a park near the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia, is a statue of a nuggety, muscular man born on the 1st of April, 1927, in Budapest, Hungary. Walk by the park on some days, and you can watch Melbourne Victory going through their training drills in Gosch’s Paddock. Not too far away stands the benevolent ...
Soccer has trouble remembering itself. This failing leaves it open to accusations of foreignness and unbelonging, accusations levelled from without and often complacently accepted from within. One of the more curious moments of amnesia in the game is its failure to acknowledge the soccer Anzacs – the soccer players who fought in both World Wars.” – Ian Syson, Soccer and Anzac: Forgetting ...
Idle Summers
Shoot Farken
South of the Border - a South Melbourne Hellas blog