Rangers and Bell Park into the finals in Geelong Community Cup Roy Hay Geelong Rangers topped Group A of the Geelong Community Cup after a seven-one thrashing of Surfcoast, while Bell Park booked its place in the finals after coming from behind to beat Deakin Ducks by...
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Big wins for hosts and holders in Geelong Cup
Big wins for hosts and holders in Geelong Cup Roy Hay There were big wins for host club, Geelong Rangers, and cup holder Bell Park in the Geelong Community Cup on Sunday night. After Golden Plains upsetting Geelong on Friday, the expected order of things was...
Corio book place in finals as Golden Plains upsets Geelong
Corio book place in finals as Golden Plains upsets Geelong Roy Hay Corio is through to the finals of this season’s Geelong Community Cup after a comfortable three-nil win over a tiring Lara United, while Golden Plains upset a very young Geelong side by a single goal...
Albert ‘Pompey’ Austin, 1846?–1889: A Man between Two Worlds
Albert ‘Pompey’ Austin, 1846?–1889: A Man between Two Worlds Roy Hay In 2017, as we struggle as a society to find ways of understanding and accepting people who do not apparently conform to a particularly narrow view of citizenship in Australia, the story of one man...
Corio and Lara United post wins in Geelong Community Cup
Corio overcame Geelong by two goals to one in a high quality first match for both clubs in the Geelong Community Cup at Myers Reserve on Sunday night. In the early game, Lara scored the only goal against newcomer Golden Plains. Despite going down to ten men in the...
Bell Park’s Community Shield campaign in tatters
Bell Park’s defence of its Geelong Community Shield is in tatters after an opening night four-nil defeat by host club Geelong Rangers at Myers Reserve on Friday night. In the early game Deakin Ducks and Surfcoast played a one-all draw. Both games were in Group A of...
Football and War: Australia and Vietnam 1967–1972
Football and War: Australia and Vietnam 1967–1972, A Missing Part of the National Narrative Roy Hay Much has been written about sport in Australia. Much more has been written about war. There is also a small literature about sport and war and hectares of newsprint...
History or heritage: A Museum for Football in Australia
History or heritage: A Museum for Football in Australia This article appeared in Leopold Method in May 2015 just after the launch of the Whole of Football twenty year plan by Football Federation Australia. The reference is: Roy Hay, ‘History or heritage: FFA Plans for...
Football’s First Free Kick: Demography and the Media—How and Why Australia Got a Game of its Own
Football on Corio Oval in 1913, the Geelong Football Club's home ground from 1878 until the Second World War. Source: John Reid, Geelong: A Photographic Album of Historic Photographs in Sepia, 1838–1988, Joval Commercial Productions, Bacchus Marsh, 1988, p. 95....
Bell Park’s incredible win in the Geelong Cup
Bell Park’s incredible win in the Geelong Cup Roy Hay (Click or double click on the images below to enlarge them) Bell Park finished the final of the Morris Finance Cup at its home ground with only nine men, but a last-minute penalty kick save by keeper Angelo Di...
Bell Park and Corio to contest Geelong Cup final
Bell Park and Corio to contest Geelong Cup final Roy Hay Host club, Bell Park, secured its place in the Morris Finance Cup final with a four-one win over a plucky Lara team on Sunday night, which sets up a clash with Corio for the trophy on 21 February. In the...
Corio into final, North Youth overcomes Surfcoast
Corio into final, North Youth overcomes Surfcoast Roy Hay (Click on pics below to enlarge) Corio reached the final of the Morris Finance Cup at Bell Park Sports Club on Friday night with a single goal victory over Geelong. North Geelong Youth fought back from a goal...
Bell Park and Corio through to semi-final of Morris Finance Cup
Bell Park and Corio through to semi-final of Morris Finance Cup Roy Hay A one-all draw between host club Bell Park and Surfcoast at Batesford on Sunday night was enough to ensure that Park and Corio would qualify for the semi-finals of the 2016 Morris Finance Cup from...
Bell Park and Geelong have good wins in Morris Finance Cup
Doug Miller of Surfside Waves (right, in blue) tries to get past Michael Boyar of Geelong. Bell Park and Geelong have good wins in Morris Finance Cup Roy Hay (Click on pics below to enlarge them) Host club Bell Park accounted for Corio by three goals to one, while...
Marinovic hat-trick highlights Bell Park victory
Mijo Marinovic outjumps Andrew Maclean in the Rangers's defence. Marinovic hat-trick highlights Bell Park victory Roy Hay Mijo Marinovic made a blistering start with his new club Bell Park scoring a hat-trick in a three-nil demolition of Geelong Rangers in the second...
Playground fitba rules
Playground fitba rules We all know the rules to the senior game but do you remember the rules of Primary School playground fitba? (In other parts of the English-speaking world the game is known as football, in Australia it used to be called soccer). Duration Matches...
Who sponsors the AFC Bournemouth Under-10s?
Who sponsors the AFC Bournemouth Under-10s? (An abbreviated version of this story appeared as 'Butler ready to serve', in the Geelong Advertiser, Friday 1 May 2015, p. 58.) Roy Hay The fairy story of English football this season has been the transformation of AFC...
A missing part of a bigger picture
A missing part of a bigger picture Roy Hay This week Australians and others around the world will remember the carnage that was the two world wars of the 20th century and subsequent conflicts in Korea and Vietnam which took the lives of so many. Yet there are many...