Sunday, 22 Jun, 10:30am – 11:30am
Williamstown Town Hall
Xavier Fowler (The Football War) and Des Tobin (It’s in the Genes) talk their recent football biographies.
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XAVIER FOWLER is a historian who writes on sport and society. From bitter personal rivalries to the lasting impacts on the game itself, his most recent book, The Football War, is the untold story of the battle for supremacy on- and off-field, and the fight for the soul of Australian Rules.
DES TOBIN has crammed more lives into his 86 years than your average cat. He has variously been a failed student, a discontented apprentice panel beater, a youth worker, a springboard diver, a junior pole-vaulter, a VFL, QANFL and Olympic Australian Rules footballer, a 10-pin bowling instructor, a successful business executive, a golfing tragic, a university lecturer and a prolific writer. Des is also the author of Simply Toogood – Peter Toogood’s Life in Golf, Frank Costa – Family Faith and Footy, Michael Tricarico ;- The Journey Not The Destination, Just a Man Called Phonse, and It’s In The Genes – Australian Football Families.
Read more about Des and It’s in the Genes HERE
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