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Frances and Roy Hay, Marnie Haig-Muir and Peter Mewett set up Sports and Editorial Services Australia in 2000 to provide high-quality research, editing and publishing facilities for individuals and organisations in Australia and throughout the world.
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In recent years SESA has acted as a consultant for Victoria Police, Heritage Victoria, Football Federation Victoria, the City of Melbourne, the City of Greater Dandenong, the Office of Housing and the Trustees of the Estate of Alexander Miller, the National Sports Museum, and a number of individuals. Current projects include a social history of Australian football (soccer).
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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...
Lara United and Corio win in Morris Finance Cup at Bell Park
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
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...
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...