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2016 Footy Almanac Cover: An alternative viewpoint

The discussion for The Footy Almanac 2016 cover is heating up, Gigs puts his case for Bob Murphy.

Round 19 – Collingwood v West Coast: More Darce, less farce

Jeff Dowsing catches a star-studded Almanac cast at Victoria Park, before watching the “freakish” D Moore in both full flight and full story-of-2016 at the MCG.

From the back patio – Dave’s Australia Day sporting honours

Dave Brown enlists a fine Barossa Shiraz and a fine intellect to list his Top 10 Australia Day Sporting Honours (even Phil the Greek gets a gong – and unfortunately its not Dimitriadis).

New book “Fandemic” offers another view on footy

In a new book just out, Phillip Dimitriadis explores the relationship between sports, literature, language and mythology. “Fandemic: Travels in Footy Mythology” expresses the tensions of a passionate sports fan with a keen interest in literature and education. Take a journey of observation and reflection over the complexity and history of sports, especially Australian football.

Pharmakos/Pharmakon: The seduction of immortality

Phillip Dimitriadis believes that fans should take some responsibility for the sordid state of affairs in modern sport.

Book Review: All praise to exploration of Ablett enigma

Book: Playing God: The Rise and Fall of Gary Ablett Writer: Garry Linnell Publication: HarperCollins, 2003 Reviewer: Phillip Dimitriadis Some may consider Garry Linnell’s book, Playing God: The Rise and Fall of Gary Ablett to be a work of fact-based, journalistic non-fiction. It is an unauthorised biography that at times has an unnerving mix of [Read more]