Might and Power: what a great horse! One of John Harms’s favourites. Here he tells the story of the 1998 Cox Plate.
Play On (includes Loose Men Everywhere)
April 7, 2020 by 2 Comments
Play On is the omnibus edition of John Harms’s first three books: Loose Men Everywhere, Memoirs of a Mug Punter, and Confessions of a Thirteenth Man. Read what the critics have said about them here. And copies are available through the Almanac Shop.
Get all your Christmas Shopping Done in our Book Sale! (Extended until Tuesday night)
December 8, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Make The Footy Almanac your one stop Christmas shop this festive season by getting the sports fans in your life some of our great titles while they are at great prices! All book sales include FREE shipping in Australia.
Living Footy at Williamstown Literary Festival
May 22, 2017 by 1 Comment
The Footy Almanac will be at Willy Lit Fest this year. Come along to see John Harms, Yvetter Wroby and Kerrie Soraghan talking about their love and obsession with footy. Come along for a what will be a delightful session.
Luke Beveridge, the Bulldogs faithful, and Play On
December 1, 2016 by 20 Comments
Footy means so much to so many. Just ask a Doggies supporter. In his book Play On (from the Loose Men Everywhere section) John Harms considered why. Luke Beveridge read an extract from Play On at the club celebrations last night. Here’s what the much-loved coach read.
ASSH big bumper night of footy by Les Everett
October 5, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Monday 10 October the Australian Society for Sports History (WA) is putting on a big bumper night of footy at the The Game Sports Bar in Northbridge.
Bouncedown is at 6.30pm, includes the ultimate footy journeyman and the WA launch of Play On: The hidden history of women’s Australian Rules football
Father’s Day Book Ideas
August 30, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Get your Father’s Day books here.
Life as I know it.
Play On.
My Lifelong love affair with the Swans
End of financial year book sale including the daily double
June 27, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Buy one of the books on offer and get a copy of The Footy Almanac for free.
Or for a short time you can get three Footy Almanacs (any editions) for $40.
Opening lines of Loose Men Everywhere
March 25, 2015 by 4 Comments
People always say I have a deep prejudice against Hawthorn – even a deep hatred. That always makes me laugh. I have the deepest respect for the mighty Hawks, so much so that they are the very first club to be mentioned in Loose Men Everywhere (soon to be re-published). You can order your copy through our crowdfunding campaign.
Harmes and Harms: a story of industrial relations, bacon and egg burgers and VFL premierships
March 21, 2015 by 3 Comments
John Harms remembers how an E Harmes and an E-less Harms spent the 1979 Grand Final. [Memorable – Ed]
Play On returns
March 4, 2015 by 18 Comments
John Harms’s omnibus Play On – made up of Confessions of a Thirteenth Man, Memoirs of a Mug Punter and Loose Men Everywhere – has been out of print for nearly a decade. Recent (unlikely) events have motivated him to right that situation, so that Play On will soon be available again. Here’s the story. And how you can buy the book and support the Almanac at the same time – it’s available through our Pozible crowdfunding campaign.
Kick-to-kick (from Loose Men Everywhere)
March 3, 2015 by 2 Comments
Recently Paul Daffey pointed Age readers in the direction of the kick-to-kick passage in Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, suggesting kick-to-kick had rarely been written about. He’s right, although it seems the Almanac is home to a number of writers (like Vin Maskell) who have. Here’s a snippet from Loose Men Everywhere by John Harms published in 2002. [E. Regnans alerted Almanac readers to the Flanagan excerpt when it was first published – Ed).
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