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‘On The Take: The 1910 Scandal That Changed Australian Football Forever’ – review by Roy Hay
May 6, 2020 by 3 Comments
Roy Hay reviews a fascinating new release, ‘On The Take: The 1910 Scandal That Changed Australian Football Forever’ by Tony Joel & Mathew Turner. This book is sure to generate much interest for aficionados of football history.
Book Review – Women in Boots: Football and Feminism in the 1970s
April 7, 2020 by 2 Comments
“Heather Reid and Marion Stell have combined to tell the stories of a generation of Australian and New Zealand women who took up Association football in the 1960s and 1970s”. Roy Hay reviews a book about some early Australian women’s sporting pioneers.
Book Review: Never Say Die – The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women’s Football
November 13, 2019 by 3 Comments
Roy Hay reviews a book which he hopes will open many eyes to a long struggle.
Almanac Soccer: The World Cup – not always so glorious
June 14, 2018 by 1 Comment
With only hours to go until the 2018 World Cup kicks off, this sobering reflection by Roy Hay reminds us of some of the less salubrious moments in the history of The World Game.
Memories of J Neville Turner
May 16, 2018 by 2 Comments
Roy Hay has some wonderful memories of recently passed academic, sports lover and author J Neville Turner, shared here with The Footy Almanac
Almanac Soccer: When the Socceroos* went to war
November 9, 2017 by 6 Comments
This week marks the 50th anniversary of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam National Day Soccer Tournament in Saigon at the start of November 1967. Historian Roy Hay tells the story. (*The term Socceroos actually came a few years after 1967)
Australian Football’s Indigenous History: Towards a New Understanding
September 27, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Roy Hay has co-written a new essay about Indigenous football history for Meanjin.
Almanac History: Who was the Adelaide Stag?
August 31, 2017 by 2 Comments
H.W. Manuel aka The Adelaide Stag led a fascinating career in running, captured here by historian Roy Hay.
Almanac Book Review: The Death and Life of Australian Soccer by Joe Gorman
August 9, 2017 by 8 Comments
Football historian Roy Hay has reviewed the latest book on Australian football by Joe Gorman.
Almanac History: Roy Hay on ‘The Conversation’ website
May 25, 2017 by 6 Comments
Roy Hay continues the discussion on Indigenous Australians involvement in the local game.
The A-League, Australian football and meaning
April 4, 2017 by 5 Comments
With Roy Hay’s lunch coming up this Friday (7 April) we also reprise his response to John Harms’s piece which was published last October:
Historian and sports-lover Roy Hay responds to John Harms’s piece on the A League and meaning with a thoughtful survey of the place of the world game and the A League in Australia.
Almanac Cricket (Book Review): Stroke of Genius is a stroke of genius
December 3, 2016 by 4 Comments
Writer, sports historian and lover of words, Roy Hay, reviews Gideon Haigh’s Stroke of Genius and concludes it is THE cricket book to read this summer. He explains why it is so brilliant.
Round 6 – Geelong v Gold Coast: Some happy returns
May 1, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Like G. Ablett jnr, Roy Hay returns to Kardinia Park and takes in what the Cats turn into a non-contest with a sparkling performance.
Footy’s first free kick: How and why we got a game of our own
March 15, 2016 by 6 Comments
[FREE access to journal article now linked – Ed]. Historian and writer Roy Hay has a piece in the current issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport. Here he introduces the longer article: “The game (footy) is deeply ingrained in local consciousness and has been since the mid-nineteenth century. Have you ever wondered how it all began and why?”
Almanac Soccer – Who sponsors the AFC Bournemouth Under-10s?
May 5, 2015 by 3 Comments
The beauty of the English Premier League; while the title is often a four horse race, the promotion and relegation battle at the opposite end of the table throws up some compelling stories; this year, AFC Bournemouth is the fairytale story. Roy Hay profiles club stalwart and Geelong soccer referee; Russell Butler.
A Missing Part of a Bigger Picture
April 23, 2015 by 7 Comments
A timely reminder from Roy Hay of Soccer’s contribution to Australian servicemen on the front-lines; the Australian soccer team’s trip to the Independence Day tournament in Saigon. Sappers sweeping the pitch for land-mines, the Viet Cong watching from the sidelines and Diggers on guard duty with orders to shoot anyone who stops on their bicycle outside the Aussie barracks. A neglected chapter of the sport and service narrative we remember on ANZAC Day.
Almanac Theatre: Unofficial anthem gets another outing
April 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment
A new piece of theatre from Felix Meagher is touring regional Victoria. The Man They Call the Banjo explores the creation of Waltzing Matilda by Banjo Patterson and Christina Macpherson. Roy Hay has more…
Soccer in New South Wales 1880-1980 by Phil Mosely
April 9, 2015 by 3 Comments
Significant, well-researched soccer history by Phil Mosely is out now.
Almanac Soccer (History): The press box at Chaplin Reserve
‘The end of civilisation as we have known it’ or ‘The press box at Chaplin Reserve’. Sunshine George Cross FC has moved to Caroline Springs prompting these memories of a soccer ground and the goings on in the press box from Roy Hay.