Mickey Randall takes us back to the London Underground suicide bombings of 2005 – the horror, the agony, the fear, the sadness… and finally the feeling that life would find a way to continue.
[i]If you believe…[/i]
July 2005: It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
December 1, 2014 by 6 Comments
Killing the Mockingbird: Recollections of the 1997 Bulldogs and Crows Preliminary Final
November 14, 2014 by 20 Comments
Sensational dreamlike memoir from Mickey Randall as he naps during the 1997 Prelim. Sadly for the Doggies, the nightmare was theirs on this day.
Cricket and the Country Member
October 24, 2014 by 14 Comments
Mickey Randall reminisces about the times, names and places of growing up with cricket as a constant summer companion.
Who gets the new ball: Seasick Steve, Derek and The Dominos, Chad Morgan, or The Big Lebowski?
September 23, 2014 by 9 Comments
It is Grand Prix weekend in Singapore but family emergencies intervene so Mickey Randall is contemplating his musical education.
AFL Round 23- Adelaide v St Kilda: Mr Squiggle and Dr Smith, trapped aboard the Jupiter 2.
September 1, 2014 by 22 Comments
CSI Almanac: Mickey Randall conducts a post-mortem on Adelaide’s 2014 season and finds only questions.
Singapore Darts Masters: “There’s only one word for that – magic darts!”
August 18, 2014 by 14 Comments
Welcome to the theatric showmanship of…. British Darts. “One hundred and eighty!”
Frogger, Bush Biscuits and Staring at Parked Motorbikes
July 17, 2014 by 31 Comments
Great memoir as Mickey Randall thinks back to his youth in Kapunda.
AFL Round 13 – Adelaide v North Melbourne: Western Democracy and the Wally Grout Snack Bar
June 15, 2014 by 12 Comments
Mickey Randall is home. Home to dark suburbs and mellow reds. Elegant Cover Drives (red and whites varieties) and Moreton Bay figs. His Crows welcome him home with a sterling win over the Kangaroos.
AFL Round 10 – Carlton v Adelaide: The Pogues or Paul Kelly?
May 26, 2014 by 31 Comments
It’s Christmas come early for Mickey Randall. No presents under the tree for the naughty Crows kiddies. Just the mid-winter despond of an English yuletide.
AFL Round 9 – Adelaide v Collingwood: Chernobyl FC still likely to host Crows’ entire 2015 pre-season
May 16, 2014 by 26 Comments
Mickey Randall and his Crows have had their hearts broken a hundred times by the Magpies. Last night was sweet revenge.
AFL Round 6 – Adelaide v Western Bulldogs: Munch on, munch on, what a lovely luncheon!
April 28, 2014 by 8 Comments
There’s something more than a little surreal about this piece: Bulldogs v Adelaide in a Boomerang Bar. [Never thought I see a reference to the Ramones and Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the same piece – Ed].
AFL Round 5: Adelaide v GWS- Jesus Was Way Cool, but Dangerfield is Risen
April 21, 2014 by 16 Comments
Patrick Dangerfield is back, and the Adelaide Oval, in all its glory, receives him lovingly.
Gambling is illegal at Bushwood sir, and I never slice: five yarns
March 27, 2014 by 23 Comments
Memories of a misspent youth from Mickey Randall. You can take the boy out of Kapunda, but you can’t take Kapunda out of the boy.
Exile on Adelaide Oval: Stone[s] the Crows
March 4, 2014 by 40 Comments
Growing up in a dusty town, The Rolling Stones were the band. So Mickey Randall had to see them in 1995 when they played at Footy Park. Now they’re playing at Adelaide Oval during Round 1, and it’s got him looking back, in a true Aussie yarn.
Football Islands
February 7, 2014 by 20 Comments
Mickey Randall’s sons embark on their footy careers in a different time and in a different country. Past and present. Hope and loss. Mickey poignantly weaves the threads of memory.
Melbourne Test – Boxing Day: Swanny, Spandau Ballet and Spotted Dick
December 27, 2013 by 18 Comments
More colourful stuff from our Singapore correspondent, Mickey Randall as he wonders which Swan(n) has retired?
Six sixes
November 29, 2013 by 29 Comments
Mickey Randall takes a trip down memory lane to revisit some of the biggest tonks of our time. Some on the public stage, some local glories. Mickey is sometimes the victim, never the perpetrator.
Boris, The Bunch of Cherries, and The Gatting Ball
November 12, 2013 by 12 Comments
Take a walk through the pub memories, both the good and the awful, of international drinker and one-time XXXX champion Mickey Randall. What did AB have to say about the Gatting Ball?
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