A Blethyn In Disguise
To my knowledge, Essendon’s Geoff Blethyn is the only person to have ever played senior level VFL /AFL footy wearing spectacles.* In 1972 the 21...
Category: Melbourne
Hirdy Girdy Hugs Mug
AFL: Round 3, 2004 Some have described it as the best last quarter performance by any individual in footy history. 15 possessions and a match...
Inflated cowhide to Mother Earth
From about age 11 and all through my teenage years I engaged in my hometown (Melbourne) religion and played footy every Saturday afternoon. The top...
Hooked on the Colliwobbles
Collingwood’s amazing ability to lose Grand Finals led to the term the ‘Colliwobbles’
No Men Poodles or Milksops
THE FOOTBALL JUBILEE: HOW THE GAME STARTED By OBSERVER Exactly fifty years after Mr. Harrison and his cousin discussed the founding of a new game,...
Kicking Behinds
LEAGUE FOOTBALL By F. Keith Manzie Good old Geelong. At last they’ve done it. They have won a semi-final for the first time in their career. Having...
Heartburnings and bickerings briskened
LAST SCENE OF ALL By “Kicker” (1910) The last day of the League Matches. Tomorrow will be the end of the season, and either...
Glowing Demon
It was my 63rd birthday recently. The following article appeared in Melbourne’s Argus newspaper on the day I was born in 1952. When do we see...
The Dunny
Growing up in the unsewered Melbourne suburbs of Bentleigh and later Moorabbin in the 1950s, I became accustomed to the delights of the outside...
Moomba
I’m in deep culturo-anthropo-Melbo shock!! As a kid I attended a couple of Moomba parades circa 1958-59 and in my ignorance I believed Moomba MUST...