Golden Plains wins last place in Geelong Community Cup finals Roy Hay A one-all draw against Corio secured the last place in this year’s Community Cup finals at Geelong Rangers’ Myers Reserve on Sunday. Corio was already through and the result meant that Lara United...
Puskas statue unveiled in Melbourne Roy Hay A statue of Hungarian and world football’s all time great players, coaches and inspirations, Ferenc Puskas, was unveiled in Melbourne today as close as could be to Olympic Park where the last game of his Australian coaching...
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...
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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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...
Two five-goal games end in victories for Lara United and Corio in the Morris Finance Cups Roy Hay (Click on photos below to enlarge) Surfside Waves scored two early goals to take the lead against Lara in Group A, but the youngsters from Lara hit back with three...
North Youth win, while Surfcoast and Geelong Rangers share the points in the Geelong Cup Roy Hay 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 equally young Lara side by...
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...
Both opening games in the Cup are drawn Roy Hay Geelong’s long running pre-season competition kicked off at Bell Park Sports Club on Friday night. The first two matches in the Morris Finance Cup both ended in one-all draws. The similarities did not end there as Corio...