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Archive pages on this domain filed under “History Of Football”, newest first. These are older materials, kept online for readers and researchers.
SESA is saddened that Dennis Jones had to put his distribution company Dennis Jones & Associates into administration…
in the Nineteenth Century: They Did Not Come from Nowhere ISBN: 9781527526488 Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle…
On 14 November 2017 the members of the Australian football team that went to Saigon and won our first international…
50th Anniversary of the victory in Vietnam In 1967 at the height of the Vietnam War, the Australian government, led by…
Aboriginal Australian men playing football in a paddock at Coranderrk. N. J Caire 1837-1918, photographer. State…
We all know the rules to the senior game but do you remember the rules of Primary School playground fitba? (In other…
(An abbreviated version of this story appeared as 'Butler ready to serve', in the Geelong Advertiser, Friday 1 May…
This week Australians and others around the world will remember the carnage that was the two world wars of the 20th…
(This article first appeared in the Almanac on 3 April 2015 at…
Phil Mosely Soccer in New South Wales, 1880–1980 has just been published by SESA and Vulgar Press, Bannockburn and…
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Norman Hobson, 1935–5 December 2014 Norm Hobson was one of Australia’s best goalkeepers in the 1950s and 1960s. He arrived from England where he had…
If you have any interest in the World Game in Australia then & Bill Murray, A History of Football in Australia: A Game…
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Castlemaine Goldfields Football Club celebrated its fortieth birthday with a full house of past and present players and supporters at New Northern on…
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Melbourne City 1 Sydney FC 3 The new Melbourne City was a bit like the old Melbourne Heart as it went down to Sydney FC at Morshead Park in Ballarat…
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The death of Alfredo di Stefano at the age of 88 has robbed us of one of the greatest players the world of football has ever seen. Though a modern…
A bibliography of Australian football The following list of books, articles, chapters, reports and other material…
Harry Kewell is bringing down the curtain on a stellar career at the end of the current A-League season. It is a pity…
[1] Nelson Mandela, the recently deceased former president of the Republic of South Africa, was always conscious of the…
Leo Baumgartner (centre) heading. His arrival in Australia in 1958 to play for Prague was the catalyst for the…
HayCoverArt1 Coming full circle: Betting scandals then and now Betting scandals and corruption in sport are not new…
(A shorter version was originally published in Australian Soccer Weekly, c. 1 July 1993. The article also draws on a…
Former Ayr United player and Australian visitor retires Quite a surprise at the amount of media coverage of the…
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Does the punishment fit the crime?: Sanctions in Association football Uruguayan national team and Liverpool striker Luis Suarez is in the news…
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Jack Elkes of England shoots for goal in the match against Western Australia at Fremantle Oval on 9 May 1925. The Western Australian players from the…
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(This article was published on the Goal Weekly website on 1 January 2013…
North Geelong Warriors celebrated 45 years since the club was founded in 1967 and twenty years since their…
(This article appeared on Goal Weekly's website on 18 September 2012…
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The games of the 30th Olympiad begin tomorrow when Team GB women’s team kicks off against New Zealand at the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff at 4 pm…
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One of the many display cases at the NFM. Grand (re)opening of the National Football Museum in England The National Football Museum, formerly located…
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Another champion team from Spain. Real Madrid in 1960 and Ferenc Puskas celebrates a goal. Are Spain the greatest ever? It is inevitable that Spain’s…
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It was an excellent idea of SBS and the Johnny Warren Foundation to reopen the debate about the best players, coaches and teams to play the game in…
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(This story appeared as a Blast from the Past column in Goal Weekly on 2 March 2012, p. 19. Click on the photographs below to enlarge them. The…
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(The text of this article appeared as a Blast from the Past in Goal Weekly on 16 March 2012, p. 19. All photos from the Laurie Schwab and collections…
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(This article appeared in Goal Weekly, Friday 23 March 2012, p. 19 and is reproduced here with the permission of the editor Costa Koutropoulos, who…
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From Emus to Socceroos: The real origins of national team’s name at last and David Hearder (This story first appeared in Goal Weekly, 24 February…
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Time for FFA to keep its nerve (This aritcle appeared on the SBS website, The World Game on 22 February 2012 and in Goal Weekly on 24 February 2012.)…
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(This article appeared in Goal Weekly on 23 December 2011, p. 19.) Charles Perkins was a pioneering figure in the recognition of the Aboriginal…
(This article appeared as 'Shootin' it Stateside,' in Goal Weekly, ( December 2011, p.19). Bruce Arena, David Beckham’s…
Micky Petersen Micky Petersen was one of the best all-round talents in Australian football. He was top class Socceroo…
(This appeared in the Geelong Advertiser, on 5 December 2011, p. 20 as 'Book it now, Winnie. Diversions, plagiarism and…
(A shorter version of this article appeared in the Geelong Advertiser, 2 December 2011, p. 34, under the title 'Kicking…
(This article appeared in my Blast from the Past column in Goal Weekly, 25 November 2011, p. 19.) John Gardiner was…
Stanley Matthews English author Jon Henderson is writing a new biography of (Sir) Stanley Matthews. He is seeking…
The Tom Wills saga Published in the Geelong Advertiser, 20 October 2011, p. 40. The campaign for the recognition of Tom…
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Leslie James Shorrock, 15 April 1921-28 September 2011: Prince of photographers was one of kind. I knew him through the game of football with which…
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Sjel (Mike) de Bruyckere. After a stellar career as player and coach at senior level de Bruyckere continued his involvement with the game, coaching…
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Victorian members of the Young Socceroos with their medals. Left to right: Mark Silic, Robert Spasevski, Robert Stojcevski, Kevin Muscat, Kris…
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Ray Baartz heads goalwards against Uruguay in Sydney in 1974. Source: Sid Grant, Jack Pollard’s Soccer Records. Punching above its weight: No wonder…
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Tommy Burns of Celtic shields the ball against Red Star Belgrade during the World of Soccer tournament at Olympic Park, Melbourne. The referee is…
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A win for 'the worst team in Britain'. Jim Cassels, the birder of Arran and a good friend sent me this piece of news which I have been sending on to…
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Deakin University Originally published as: , ‘A new look at soccer violence’, in Denis Hemphill, All part of the game: Violence and Australian Sport…
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(This was published in Goal Weekly on 23 May 2011, before United were beaten by Barcelona in the Champions League final.) It has been a good year for…
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The item below appeared in the Sunday Age Sport, 1 May 2011, p. 28. Caption for photograph Celtic Football Club, 1908, with Charity, Scottish and…