Richard Annois, With Respect: The Story of Geelong Lawyers Harwood & Pincott, 1840–1992, Thislot Press, Highton, Victoria, 2005. Launch of With Respect The Hon. Justice Bernard D. Bongiorno launched Richard Annois, With Respect: The Story of Geelong Lawyers...
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The Boys on Newtown Hill: A history of St Joseph’s College, Geelong, 1935-2007
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.
Bethany: Serving the Community, A Social History, 1977-2007
Susan Kruss, Bethany: Serving the Community, A Social History, 1977-2007, Bethany Community Support Inc., Geelong 2008.
A social history of Australian soccer (football) with Dr Bill Murray, La Trobe University
For the full story see The Croatia Story (forthcoming) or a briefer account in Roy Hay, ‘British Football, Wogball or the World Game? Towards a social history of Victorian Soccer’, in John O’Hara (ed.), Ethnicity and Soccer in Australia, ASSH Studies in Sports History...
The history of the Geelong Chamber of Commerce
This is the story of the Geelong Chamber of Commerce and its members since its foundation in 1853. After a hiatus in the latter part of the nineteenth century, the chamber was reconstituted as the Geelong Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers in 1891. Since then it...
Geelong Advertiser Cup, 1981-2005
Geelong Advertiser Cup Souvenir Record 1981-2005 Compiled by Roy Hay This is the complete illustrated history of the Geelong Advertiser Cup since its inception in 1981 until the last compeition sponsored by the Geelong Advertiser in 2005. It contains the results of...
Joey ties the knot
Geelong’s star football (soccer) goalkeeper, Joey Didulica, tied the knot with his bride Kate Dzidzic at St Monica’s Catholic Church in Moonee Ponds on Friday. It was a sparkling ceremony attended by a large circle of the bride’s and groom’s family and friends and...
Now I have seen it all
I thought I was a fairly seasoned traveller, but a day spent recovering after the Australia versus Brazil match in Munich in the 2006 World Cup in Germany opened my eyes to a number of things which I would never have expected in a lifetime of exploring the nooks and...
Going well for Didulica
Published in the Geelong Advertiser, Tuesday 24 October 2006, p. 34. under the heading 'Joey's Dutch courage' You wouldn’t want to put the moz on him by drawing attention to it, but Geelong keeper Joey Didulica has made an incredible start to his resumed career in...
Cup the greatest: Soccer’s showpiece the envy of all
Geelong Advertiser, Monday 9 October 2006, p. 37. The football World Cup is the greatest multicultural sporting extravaganza of modern times. Its only conceivable rival, the Olympic Games, is a multi-sports activity in which all member countries can take part in a...
Farewell Jimmy Johnstone
Jimmy Johnstone, ‘Jinky’ to everyone, the man voted the greatest Celtic player ever, has died at the age of 62 after a long illness. A supremely talented ball player with mesmeric close control, he was an integral part of the Lisbon Lions, the home-grown Celtic team...
National Youth League 2008-09
Melbourne Victory Youth 0 Queensland Roar Youth 2 On a dry, bumpy and windswept pitch at Green Gully Reserve, Melbourne Victory went down by two goals to nil in the opening match of the new National Youth League on Friday, 26 September 2008. The Victory squad was only...
World Cup 2006 picture gallery
Aussie and Croatian fans at the Gottlieb Daimler Stadion in Stuttgart, 22 June 2006.
What were they doing in 1863?
Goal Weekly, Monday 11 May 2009, p. 12. I know this column is called Blast from the Past, but given that most people believe the first game of Association Football was not played in Australia until the 1880s, what, you may ask, am I on about? It is, however, 150...
Rangers wins Goforyourlife Cup
Geelong Rangers won the Goforyourlife Cup by a single goal against Surfcoast on Sunday night. It was the first time that Rangers had triumphed in a Geelong pre-season tournament since 1987 and James Blackburn’s superb strike in the 57th minute conjured up memories of...
49ers and Barwon Heads take out Masters
Two of Geelong’s teams won gold medals in the Australian Masters Games tournament held at Bell Park last week. The Geelong 49ers led by Steve Radojevic and Rod van der Chys won the over-45 age group while in a big upset Barwon Heads knocked off the highly fancied...
Goforyourlife Cup 20 and 22 February 2009
Geelong Rangers continued its march to the finals of the Goforyourlife Cup with a two-one win over North Geelong at Myers Reserve on Friday night. North introduced a number of senior players, while Rangers stuck to the players who have got it through the opening two...
Massacre at the dome
It was a St Valentine’s Day massacre at Telstra Dome on Saturday night when Melbourne Victory trounced Adelaide United by four goals to nil in the second leg of the major semi-final of the A-League. The Victory team and fans celebrated with what my colleague Alan...