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24.01.2022 "Like a modern day H.G Wells, London based but Wagga Wagga born, Mueller has jumped into his time machine and set the controls to arrive at 57 noteworthy VFL cum AFL (Australian Football League) matches spanning 120 years." Shoot Farken's Athas Zafiris reviews "Carn: The Game and the Country that Plays it," Andrew Mueller's rollicking history of the football league that swallowed an entire code. http://www.shootfarken.com.au/carn-the-game-and-country-th/
23.01.2022 Shoot Farken is back for 2020 with a wonderful long read by football historian Paul Nicholls on his search for the lost grave of Eadie Fraser, one of Scotland's earliest football stars, in Sydney's Rookwood Necropolis. http://www.shootfarken.com.au/finding-eadie-fraser/
15.01.2022 Covid getting you down. Nevena Kesic has the cure with this reading and listening treat, "Defunct Yugo bands you should listen to in order to beat the Covid blues." From pop rock to new wave to synthpop it also comes with a great little Spotify playlist for you to discover and enjoy. https://www.shootfarken.com.au/defunct-yugo-bands-you-shou/
14.01.2022 They called him Judy. Judy Masters was a Wonder Man of Australian Soccer. On May 20, 1925, 50,000 spectators packed the Sydney Showground to watch the working men of NSW take on the might of England's football professionals. Shoot Farken welcomes Paul Nicholls with the wonderfully evocative story of Judy Masters, the Australian coal miner who challenged English football supremacy. http://www.shootfarken.com.au/judy-masters-new-south-wales/
09.01.2022 Big news for Shoot Farken. We published the remarkable forgotten story by Athas Zafiris of the first ever game of Aussie Rules football played in England. http://www.shootfarken.com.au/first-game-of-australian-rul/ Today it made news in the print and online editions of The Age with a terrific write-up by Anthony Colangelo. https://www.theage.com.au//played-in-1888-on-a-pig-farm-ta We warmly recommend you read and both.
02.01.2022 "One of the characteristics of the goal Angela Iannotta scored against China was that it was beautiful. Angela says so herself. It was also a special goal. Momentous. No other Australian player had scored a goal like this before. But we don’t know that much about it. It’s a slice of Australian football history hidden from sight." Shoot Farken is back with a special Matildas and FIFA Women's World Cup exclusive by Engel Schmidl. "Angela Iannotta’s historic, unseen goal: the story of Australia’s first ever World Cup goalscorer in her own words."
