Disgrace… Loose-fit Euro 2012 coverage from Lee Hugh McGowan Group of Death B Germany Portugal ______________ Denmark Netherlands Portugal 2 – 1 Netherlands Germany 2 – 1 Denmark Denmark have been my favourite team in this group, if not the tournament so far. The German machine rolls on, but the Danes [Read more]
Early Cornes
June 18, 2012 by 9 Comments
By his own admission, Graham Cornes found his induction into the Australian Football Hall of Fame slightly awkward. As a player his signature moment was a gasping high mark in the dying moments of the 1973 SANFL grand final. Glenelg was down by five points when he went back for the kick. It was the [Read more]
The View from Shepparton – Round 12
June 18, 2012 by 2 Comments
My question this week is, “What is the best or perhaps most appropriate sledge or quick one liner that you have either delivered or personally heard in in matters sporting?”. My own personal entry this week is this; “If an aspect of football had the equivalent of junk bond status the winner would be the NRL [Read more]
The Wrap – Round XII: Where lift imitates football
June 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
And what a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. The Eagles saw off a spirited Bluebagger Challenge to return to the Top of The Ladder, and The Feeling Faints fall just short of a famous Victory in The City of Churches. The Tiges had to win in torrid conditions up in Sin City, and The [Read more]
The Footy Gods: Horme
June 18, 2012 by 1 Comment
Horme was a difficult god to describe. The scholars describe her onrush in battle. Perhaps the best way to describe her by what she wasn’t: apathetic. Horme was who you wanted next to you when you wanted to have a go. She could be a dangerous companion when you didn’t. Perhaps the girl that you [Read more]
US Open
June 18, 2012 by 28 Comments
This has been a pretty good tournament although not the best by a long way. The Olympic Course is superb: a sandy linksy course with trees – even though that doesn’t make sense. But I say that because it is windy and the ball sometimes runs on the quick fairways and greens and you have [Read more]
John Kingsmill’s Footy Diary
June 18, 2012 by 12 Comments
ROUND TWELVE Is anyone else prepared to admit they’ve fallen in love with Jaimee Rogers? I’m blond. I declare that up front; I’m not embarrassed about laying my cards on the table. Us blonds have become subject to cruel jokes ever since Marilyn Monroe seduced a simpler world. Jaimee has big eyes, a round mouth, and [Read more]
Fitzroy move to second and don’t worry about bleeding
June 17, 2012 by 1 Comment
That wanker, and recipient of a medal from that great promoter of democracy and freedom the USSR, Manning Clark banged on about “blood on the wattle” in his History of Australia. On Saturday there was blood on the table in front of me. There was blood on the tablecloth in front of me. There was [Read more]
No Dons but plenty of footy
June 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
No Dons this weekend, but that’s not to say there’s no footy. Far from it , it’s a weekend to celebrate grass roots footy and for me, to visit two of the best footy grounds in the Melbourne metropolitan area. I headed off on the bike for a pleasant ride across the Yarra to the [Read more]
Morning Suit Glory – The Royal Ascot preview
June 17, 2012 by 23 Comments
As compiled between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, and posted on a sunny early Sunday morn from Gloucester Road, Kensington, SW7 ——————————————————————————————————— It was my Pulp Fiction moment, of sorts. Though it must be said, I was not riding shotgun in J.Travolta’s Chevrolet at the time – perhaps thankfully so, as recent “revelations” would [Read more]
Hard work and rewards
June 17, 2012 by 7 Comments
Euro 2012 Group A Czech Republic Greece ________ Russia Poland Greece 1 – 0 Russia Poland 0 – 1 Czech Republic Anything can happen and did. The teams I’d so flippantly dismissed have qualified for the next round. And I have to say I’m really glad they did. The Czech Republic did not quite roll [Read more]
A couple of bright spots in the rain
June 17, 2012 by 1 Comment
What a shocker of a day. Not the football – the weather. Usually there is a slight reprieve, for a few minutes at least, before the sky reloads. Not today. It was just a constant downpour. We shared our train from Lidcombe to Olympic Park with vikings, superheroes, blue-haired french maids, druids, zombies and other [Read more]
True Blood: The Jake Stevens Interview
June 17, 2012 by 2 Comments
Jake ‘Cobba’ Stevens loves life and footy. He reflects on how he became a Swans fan, his world travels and how he’d like to study journalism in an interview with Phil Dimitriadis. PD: Hi Jake and welcome to the Junior Footy Almanac. First questions: Why do you love footy and how did you become a [Read more]
The Patriarch of Footscray
June 17, 2012 by 5 Comments
I love Friday’s at the moment. I know, everyone loves Friday, but for me they’ve just become Daddy and Richie days, with mum starting a new job. Last week we went to have a look at Williamstown’s refurbished Point Gellibrand Oval, the day before it was reintroduced to football. I love the Willy footy ground. [Read more]
David Graham – A Life Redeemed
June 16, 2012 by 7 Comments
Its US Golf Open time, and I felt inspired by Matt Riordan’s wonderful list of his 5 favorite golfers and the typically eclectic Almanacker response, to add my recollection of a forgotten hero of Australian golf. Before the Shark there was Peter Thomson, Kel Nagle, Bruce Crampton (second best golfer in the world for many [Read more]
Scandinavian sunsets
June 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Euro 2012 Group : France 2 – 0 Ukraine; Sweden 2 – 3 England (Boo!) This group really came to life last night…except for Sweden, for whom it really came to death. In the first game, France looked robust and every bit the potential champions the bookmakers have made them. A storm delayed play, but [Read more]
Cardboard Villains
June 16, 2012 by 7 Comments
WEST COAST EAGLES V CARLTON Stockbroker Stadium, 5.40pm (AFL **##!! TV Time) Thursday the can you **!!## believe it 14 June 2012 Chris Judd’s 5 All Time Favorite Woody Allen Movies: Take the Money and Run (1969) – for taking the Visy cash instead of another premiership with the Eagles Stardust Memories (1980) – for [Read more]
Football writer
June 15, 2012 by 2 Comments
Apologies to Lennon/McCartney (I think it was the latter) Dear Sports Ed, won’t you read my stuff I can make a sentence, so I’m good enough Never really played much footy before Failed first-year law And now I wanna be a football writer Football writer Irony drips from my poison pen I can do cross-promos [Read more]
Wartime Golf Rules
June 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
As the Battle of Britain began to take hold in 1940, a bomb fell on an outbuilding belonging to Richmond Golf Club in Surrey, England. As a result, the club — rather than halt future rounds of golf — issued an incredible list of temporary golf rules to all members that took into account the potentially life-threatening conditions on the [Read more]
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