I'm doing a bit of housekeeping on the blog as I prepare for a bit of a revamp in the coming weeks.
I will be keeping the existing major pages, but by adding pages within pages in the History Documents section I hope top make it less unwieldy. The same method will be used to clean up the Video Archive as well.
End of Financial Year Stocktake
Soccer News Archive - 76 items
Soccer Action Archive - 387 items
History Documents - 201 items
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Sunday, 25 June 2017
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
Not So Random Pictures
Yes, it's the return of one of the Blog's franchise series, a Random Pictures post. Only not that random as they are all from a collection of photos loaned to me by Heidelberg United, so there's a strong Alexandros theme.
Speak of the devil....
No doubt there are some in football that will cringe at this image of our ethnic football past. Even less doubt that many of those aren't as tolerant of other cultures as they like to make out. Screw the hypocrites, all hail Alexander!
Ollie Norris interviewing then Sydney Olympic coach Tommy Docherty.
Manny Poulakakis and Ollie Norris present legendary VFL coach Tom Hafey with a commemorative Phillips Soccer League plate.
Ange Koutos presents Collingwood FC icon Lou Richards with a ball in the short-lived Collingwood Warriors era.
The multi-media mega star takes on Koutos.
A youthful John Anastasiadis.
Peter Tsolakis heads the ball under pressure from George Petrov.
Heidelberg's Phil Stubbins is tackled by Melbourne Croatia's George Hannah with Stuart Stevenson watching.
Jimmy Rooney tries to get away from Croatia's Ned Batinovic.
The third of the trilogy, Jamie Paton battles with Croatia's Steve Kokoska.
Celebrations for Gary Cole, Jimmy Tansey, Derek Hunter and Jimmy Campbell.
Heidelberg United from the Victorian Premier League in 2000.
Back (LtoR): Andrew Charalambous, Bill Makris, George Angelos, Peter Di Iorio, Alfonso Opazo.
Middle: Cameron Brown, Manny Pappas, Arthur Tsonis, Leigh Tsoumerkas, Sean Cunningham, Robbie Grakovski, Gerry McAleer.
Front: Jeff Stefanidis, David De Propertis, George Katsakis, Jeff Olver, Phil Peladarinos, Mile Medjedovic.
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Speak of the devil....
No doubt there are some in football that will cringe at this image of our ethnic football past. Even less doubt that many of those aren't as tolerant of other cultures as they like to make out. Screw the hypocrites, all hail Alexander!
Ollie Norris interviewing then Sydney Olympic coach Tommy Docherty.
Manny Poulakakis and Ollie Norris present legendary VFL coach Tom Hafey with a commemorative Phillips Soccer League plate.
Ange Koutos presents Collingwood FC icon Lou Richards with a ball in the short-lived Collingwood Warriors era.
The multi-media mega star takes on Koutos.
A youthful John Anastasiadis.
Peter Tsolakis heads the ball under pressure from George Petrov.
Heidelberg's Phil Stubbins is tackled by Melbourne Croatia's George Hannah with Stuart Stevenson watching.
Jimmy Rooney tries to get away from Croatia's Ned Batinovic.
The third of the trilogy, Jamie Paton battles with Croatia's Steve Kokoska.
Celebrations for Gary Cole, Jimmy Tansey, Derek Hunter and Jimmy Campbell.
Heidelberg United from the Victorian Premier League in 2000.
Back (LtoR): Andrew Charalambous, Bill Makris, George Angelos, Peter Di Iorio, Alfonso Opazo.
Middle: Cameron Brown, Manny Pappas, Arthur Tsonis, Leigh Tsoumerkas, Sean Cunningham, Robbie Grakovski, Gerry McAleer.
Front: Jeff Stefanidis, David De Propertis, George Katsakis, Jeff Olver, Phil Peladarinos, Mile Medjedovic.
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Thursday, 1 June 2017
Soccer Action Is Well And Truly Here!
Last August I started putting my Soccer Action collection online, and in under a year the task is now complete. Which is a bit ahead of schedule as I initially anticipated uploading just one or two a week and thought it would be something that would be completed in five or six years. The device of posting links to the new uploads on Twitter every Friday brought about the hastened completion of digitising the collection, making sure I did a few week then pushing me to do a few more than the week before.
It went from being happy with four uploads a week to trying to hit ten every Friday. I'd like to thank John Morris for giving me my original collection, and Damian Smith for the inspiration in putting them online. Thanks to Pave Jusup for allowing me to add to that collection by letting me copy from his own. Thanks also to Shahan Petrossian of Soccer Nostalgia, Miles McClagan and his amazing flickr scans, Paul Mavroudis of South of the Border and George Cotsanis of My World Is Round for further inspiration in making sure the collection was shared for all to enjoy.
Thanks also the the great statistician and historian Andrew Howe for providing me with a few missing pages and moral support. Thanks also to everyone who provided encouragement via the comments section of the blog or on Twitter, knowing people wanted to share the memories contained in the papers is what it was all about. The great Gary Cole falls into this lot, as well as the final group I need to thank, those that provided us with Soccer Action in the first place - Laurie Schwab, Les Shorrock and Craig MacKenzie.
Of course the the job is not quite finished, as my collection is not complete and after a break I will look towards finding and scanning the missing issues. The starting point to that, of course, is listing them here.
There are a few editions I have that are incomplete. They are:
1980
March 19 (pages 13 and 14 missing)
1981
March 25 (pages 13 and 14 missing)
July 1 (pages 5, 6, 7. 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 missing)
July 22 (pages 3, 4, 13 and 14 missing)
1986
July 16 (pages 1, 2, 15 and 16 missing)
And the editions I am missing completely are:
1976
February 4
March 31
1979
March 14
July 25
August 29
1980
May 28
June 4
June 25
September 10
October 15
October 22
November 5
November 19
1981
April 1
1982
January 27
February 10
March 3
March 10
March 17
March 24
April 14
May 19
June 30
July 14
August 11
September 22
October 20
1983
February 16
March 16
March 23
April 6
June 8
July 20
August 10
August 17
October 19
October 26
1984
April 4
September 12
1985
September 4
1986
April 9
May 14
October 8
So it's 387 down, 71 to go. Currently the file full of scans comes in at 5.96GB, so it may be that one day you can carry a complete set of Soccer Action's with you on an 8GB USB. The wonders of modern technology.
It went from being happy with four uploads a week to trying to hit ten every Friday. I'd like to thank John Morris for giving me my original collection, and Damian Smith for the inspiration in putting them online. Thanks to Pave Jusup for allowing me to add to that collection by letting me copy from his own. Thanks also to Shahan Petrossian of Soccer Nostalgia, Miles McClagan and his amazing flickr scans, Paul Mavroudis of South of the Border and George Cotsanis of My World Is Round for further inspiration in making sure the collection was shared for all to enjoy.
Thanks also the the great statistician and historian Andrew Howe for providing me with a few missing pages and moral support. Thanks also to everyone who provided encouragement via the comments section of the blog or on Twitter, knowing people wanted to share the memories contained in the papers is what it was all about. The great Gary Cole falls into this lot, as well as the final group I need to thank, those that provided us with Soccer Action in the first place - Laurie Schwab, Les Shorrock and Craig MacKenzie.
Of course the the job is not quite finished, as my collection is not complete and after a break I will look towards finding and scanning the missing issues. The starting point to that, of course, is listing them here.
There are a few editions I have that are incomplete. They are:
1980
March 19 (pages 13 and 14 missing)
1981
March 25 (pages 13 and 14 missing)
July 1 (pages 5, 6, 7. 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 missing)
July 22 (pages 3, 4, 13 and 14 missing)
1986
July 16 (pages 1, 2, 15 and 16 missing)
And the editions I am missing completely are:
1976
February 4
March 31
1979
March 14
July 25
August 29
1980
May 28
June 4
June 25
September 10
October 15
October 22
November 5
November 19
1981
April 1
1982
January 27
February 10
March 3
March 10
March 17
March 24
April 14
May 19
June 30
July 14
August 11
September 22
October 20
1983
February 16
March 16
March 23
April 6
June 8
July 20
August 10
August 17
October 19
October 26
1984
April 4
September 12
1985
September 4
1986
April 9
May 14
October 8
So it's 387 down, 71 to go. Currently the file full of scans comes in at 5.96GB, so it may be that one day you can carry a complete set of Soccer Action's with you on an 8GB USB. The wonders of modern technology.