Testing one of the goal-line technology systems. FIFA World, April 2012, p. 13. Keep technology out of football Roy Hay (Earlier versions of the this article appeared in the Geelong Advertiser, Goal Weekly and Neos Osmos). A referee gets a decision wrong. Perhaps....
Coming to terms with celebrity Roy Hay This article appeared in Goal Weekly, 9 December 2011, p. 2, and the Geelong Advertiser, 10 December 2011, p. 42 as 'Striking Difference.' The David Beckham show that is Los Angeles Galaxy rolled into Etihad Stadium last night...
Back among the books in 2011 Roy Hay (This appeared in the Geelong Advertiser, on 5 December 2011, p. 20 as 'Book it now, Winnie. Diversions, plagiarism and whodunnits'). It is time once again for the annual reading list which might assist some of you looking for...
The Deakin University Arts building on the Waurn Ponds campus In defence of the humanities Roy Hay This article was published in the Geelong Advertiser on 23 November 2011 and reproduced on the Deakin University website at...
Published in the Geelong Advertiser, 11 October 2011, p. 20 as 'My MacLove affair.' The death of Steve Jobs and the outpouring of interest in the man and his machines sent me scurrying back to my old diaries to find when I first got involved with an Apple Macintosh....
The Edinburgh Conspiracy is a political thriller set in the near future. Scotland is independent and Edinburgh has been chosen as the site of a major international congress of heads of state. It will finalize a settlement of the Israel–Palestine dispute. A group of...
The Global Game: A History of football in Australia. Exhibition Catalogue. Roy Hay, with an introduction by Ruth Rentschler, Paul Turner and Pamm Kellett. This is the catalogue to accompany the exhibition of photographs of the history of football (soccer) in...
Catherine Wells, with the assistance of Roy and Frances Hay, Catherine Wells: An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman The biography of Catherine Wells, born in 1914, who left school in Easter Ross at 14, worked in domestic service and brought up a family in wartime when her...
Andrew Fisher was Prime Minister of Australia three times—1908–09, 1910–13 and 1914–15. His second government controlled both Houses of Parliament and it was, until the 1940s, Australia’s most reformist administration. In these three years, 113 Acts were placed on the...
Roy Hay, James Dun Hay, 1881-1940: The Story of a Footballer This is the footballing life story of James ‘Dun’ Hay, 1881-1940, captain of Celtic, Scotland and Newcastle United, who was suspended for life for refusing to apologise after accusing a director of Ayr...
The history of the College is available. Roy Hay and Marnie Haig-Muir, The Boys on Newtown Hill: A history of St Joseph’s College, Geelong, 1935-2007, Sports and Editorial Services Australia and St Joseph’s College, Geelong, 2007. If you are interested in obtaining a...
Getting to the World Cup was hard enough, but now Australia faces the current and five times world champion, Brazil, European powerhouse Croatia and Asian champion Japan in one of the toughest groups at Germany 2006. Yet coach Guus Hiddink and his squad will not...
Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 11 November 2006, p. 35. Do you ever wonder about the contradictory notions which surround the current debates and practices on global warming, drought and the death of our rivers? We need a one-handed environmentalist, just like we need a...