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and the occasional thoughts about local soccerMark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.comBlogger215125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-27558533635503095872024-02-14T19:35:00.003+11:002024-02-14T19:35:56.304+11:00Shepparton City Soccer Club ReunionMario Varricchio, the man behind the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/sheppcity/">Shepparton City Soccer Club History Page on Facebook</a>, is organising a reunion event for past players, members and friends. Hopefully they get a good turn out, it will be a great catch-up for those who do attend. Please spread the word of the event around if you can, as there will be some interested in it who have moved to Melbourne and other areas that are no longer in the local loop and could appreciate the notification.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">There will be a Reunion for all past players, members & friends of the original Shepparton City Soccer Club that played between1956 and 1984.</span></div><div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sunday 3rd March 2024 </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Shepparton Sports City (McEwen Reserve) Main Pavilion</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">11am - 4pm </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Outdoor event. BYO Drinks, BBQ catering available to purchase.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Bring along City memorabilia and stories to share.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Also, optional get together dinner the night before: </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Saturday 2nd March</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sherbourne Terrace Bistro, 109 Wyndham St, Shepparton VIC</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">7pm</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Please RSVP to both events by 23rd February to:</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">0401284827 or <a href="mailto:varricchio3013@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">varricchio3013@gmail.com</a></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZBe45D1lnmxox7Nu0TVdByXC-0VwYqpdmFuzqanhdp7xJupyJgn8RzqO9iy2yukxFzaXqwda34KjoztdGpieBh-M3LpXy1p2mcsUFylCqI-WnSu7V1TrcDuEzKyMRwPf3f8yAz_6snz6XFQYLsBUHMUZ8-dfzhRKDE9_XIP7bCj6RPEaQ0p_4d19mPxQ/s1080/FB_IMG_1707702362503.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1080" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZBe45D1lnmxox7Nu0TVdByXC-0VwYqpdmFuzqanhdp7xJupyJgn8RzqO9iy2yukxFzaXqwda34KjoztdGpieBh-M3LpXy1p2mcsUFylCqI-WnSu7V1TrcDuEzKyMRwPf3f8yAz_6snz6XFQYLsBUHMUZ8-dfzhRKDE9_XIP7bCj6RPEaQ0p_4d19mPxQ/s320/FB_IMG_1707702362503.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-55960105776905740312023-12-30T10:41:00.001+11:002023-12-30T10:41:59.047+11:00Doug Butcher UpdatesThe great historian Doug Butcher has sent his updated files for the Socceroos, Olyroos and touring teams to Australia records. As usual they are very detailed and thorough.<div><br /></div><div>They can be found on the <a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/doug-butcher-booklets.html">Doug Butcher Booklets page</a>, the updates being the items all ending in 2020-2023.</div><div><br /></div><div>Graeme McGinty has also sent a few more match programmes through. They include <a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/national-team-programmes.html">Australia v Hajduk Split in Adelaide in 1949</a> and some <a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/vslvplnplv-programmes.html">1982 Morwell Falcons state league matches</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>The <a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/newspaper-compilations.html">Newspaper Compilations</a> have been given their own page as they were taking up too much of the Archives & Documents page. New pages there include the Waverley Gazette (for 1969) and Die Woche in Australien. At the moment the main focus is on completing all of the Moorabbin News and Die Woche in Australian to assist on my Moorabbin City and Richmond Alemannia blogs. I've also almost completed the Hrvatski Tjednik collection, where the coverage has diminished greatly in the mid-1980's. </div><div><br /></div><div>Once they are done I will be attacking missing 1960's Victorian details with more vigour.</div>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-78085025529649076402023-12-14T19:01:00.003+11:002023-12-14T19:01:59.237+11:00Soccer Week Archive Updated<p>The <a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/soccer-week-archive.html">Soccer Week Archive</a> has been updated to now almost be fully complete.</p><p><i>Soccer Week</i> was an independent paper which ran from mid-season in 1974 to just short of the end of the 1975 season. It filled the void after the demise of <i>Soccer News</i>, and was soon replaced with the superior <i>Soccer Action</i>.</p><p>Previously the Archive included only editions which had been scanned in full from the available newspapers sourced. George Cotsanis (of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/myworldisround/">My World Is Round</a>) had taken a vast amount of photos of the State Library Victoria's (SLV) bound volume which he has shared around over the years. Tony Persoglia made some PDF's from these images, but I was reluctant to add them to this archive for a number of reasons.</p><p>Firstly, the tight binding on the SLV volume meant some columns were hard to make out. Then there was the matter of not all pages being photographed, as I assume George skipped full page ads and possibly some of the Soccerpools full pages (which sometimes may have had interstate or overseas snippets). Thirdly, the fact that the paper regularly changed the number of pages it contained made it harder to figure out if/how many pages may be missing. Generally the off-season/pre-season issues contained 8, going up to 12 when the Metropolitan League kicked off, and extending to 16 on the odd occasion. Also in some cases the date of publication was also lost to the tight binding. There was also a period of time where the paper cutting alignment must have been off, leading to text at the bottom of pages disappearing. </p><p>For these reasons I limited what I placed in the archive in the hope of finding access to unbound issues to scan properly. With this failing to eventuate, I decided to re-visit the SLV bound volume. I took additional photos, and made PDF's from them, whilst also adding the PDF's created by Tony from George's photos to the files. This gives a few pictures of each page, hopefully between them providing a decent enough image to work out what was going on. The correct publication dates of some issues were established. Which gives us now an almost complete record, with only July 23 of 1975 missing from the SLV collection.</p><p> </p>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-60351840526756994312023-10-31T18:02:00.000+11:002023-10-31T18:02:03.780+11:00New Additions - October 2023<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">The items added to the archive recently are as follow:</span></p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/history-documents.html">NEWSPAPER COMPILATIONS</a></p><p>Camberwell Free Press Compilations: 1932 1933</p><p>Lilydale Express Compilations: 1959</p><p>Moorabbin News/Standard Compilations: 1972 1973 1974</p><p>Moorabbin Southern Cross Compilations: 1927 1928</p><p>Neue Welt Compilations: 1977 1978 1979 1980</p><p>St Kilda & Caulfield Southern Cross Compilations: 1927</p><p><br /></p><p>Next month the Neue Welt archive will be complete, as it's run ended in 1981. Will probably step up the number of Moorabbin Standard bound volumes that I go through each week, and start looking at other ethnic papers from the 1960's and 1970's.</p>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-5843237967341703872023-09-30T08:53:00.001+10:002023-09-30T08:53:35.319+10:00New Additions - September 2023<p>The items added to the archive recently are as follow:</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/history-documents.html">NEWSPAPER COMPILATIONS</a></p><p>Neue Welt Compilations - 1972 1973 1974</p><p>Yarra Valley News - 1966</p><p>Moorabbin News - 1964</p><p>Shepparton News - 1954 1955</p><p>Sunshine Advocate - 1955</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/yearbooks-annuals.html">ARTICLES</a></p><p>Franz Stampfl - Sports Illustrated - November 26, 1956</p><p>Jackson Irvine - Celtic v Cliftonville programme - July 23, 2013</p><p>Mark Viduka - Celtic v Rangers programme - May 2, 1999</p><p>Scott McDonald - Celtic v Dundee United programme - May 12, 2009</p><p>Will Hastie - Celtic v St Mirren programme - November 12, 1990</p><p>Paul Reid - Brighton v Sunderland programme - February 19, 2005</p><p>Nick Ward - Brighton v Rotherham United programme - February 3, 2007</p><p>Lucas Neill - Celtic v Blackburn Rovers programme - October 31, 2003</p><p>Joel Porter - Brighton v Hartlepool programme - November 8, 2008</p><p>Scott McDonald - Celtic v Dinamo Moscow programme - July 29, 2009</p><p>Luke Wilkshire - Celtic v Dinamo Moscow programme - July 29, 2009</p><p>Craig Johnston - Middlesbrough v Everton programme - March 6, 1979</p><p>James Hay - Celtic v St Johnstone programme - October 6, 1990</p><p>Adelaide Croatia Raiders 70th Anniversary - Hrvastki Vjesnik - August 3, 2022</p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/clubassociation-history-booklets.html">CLUB HISTORY BOOKLETS</a></p><p>Helensburgh Thistle 1895-1977</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/yearbooks-annuals.html">CLUB ANNUALS/YEARBOOKS</a></p><p>Fairy Meadow Italia 1987</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/magazines.html">CLUB MAGAZINES</a></p><p>Shooting Ahead (Woonona-Bulli) - March 24, 1972</p>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-81915664168633942982023-08-06T14:28:00.000+10:002023-08-06T14:28:36.269+10:00Victoria 1924-1926 FilesI've just about settled on finalising the season files for 1924-1926 to submit to Tony Persoglia for auditing and adding to OzFootball.<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kycg_OqTkCFAeMhQoldDli3WqD3T0JZd/view?usp=sharing">1924 Season</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pbImUmkeM1TdByfkiIIHWDwIV8lEMKry/view?usp=sharing">1925 Season</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1apIj5bx63mmgqHbQawD1BLgE1jlMTMMs/view?usp=sharing">1926 Season </a></div><div><br /></div><div>Before finalising I will have one more attempt at settling on initials for Barber and Boniface of Preston. I will also try and find any link to the Inglis that was with Lincoln Mills and Scotland in the Local International in 1924 as being the Jock Inglis that was later at Prahran City.</div><div><br /></div><div>Have settled on J Maxwell for the Windsor/Prahran goalscorer (after years of floating between J, G and T), and J Aitken for the Footscray Thistle/Victoria/Australia defender. Aitken has also been listed a a W elsewhere, but the Footscray Mail is pretty consistent with J. I think this also makes him the "Jess Aicken" that was later at Springvale but I need to work on that a bit more.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-62969243529626444662023-05-28T21:00:00.003+10:002023-05-28T21:00:20.218+10:00Moorabbin City Soccer Club History is Here!<p>Or more accurately, <a href="https://moorabbincitysoccerclubhistory.blogspot.com/">HERE</a>.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOJJlpKADZp2WHf0J75m8CMWPxek-mDYZFup-TZw4GTrZiklN3JZmDeycFxiC-MLV1SEJEnDmv4xVAA59bBrzQF_EKjcOhK6xIL_ONI_rlGBKBIkh8woJrtnvnQ8jVwPeUCQnz5iT-l44BNhYzTjWFKN8meCrRTY4rY59Z5Px561FQjoEAO0aWhJ8m/s1028/MoorabbinCitySoccerClubHistory.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="1028" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOJJlpKADZp2WHf0J75m8CMWPxek-mDYZFup-TZw4GTrZiklN3JZmDeycFxiC-MLV1SEJEnDmv4xVAA59bBrzQF_EKjcOhK6xIL_ONI_rlGBKBIkh8woJrtnvnQ8jVwPeUCQnz5iT-l44BNhYzTjWFKN8meCrRTY4rY59Z5Px561FQjoEAO0aWhJ8m/s320/MoorabbinCitySoccerClubHistory.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Coming soon - Richmond Alemannia History</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCvWhHczmOlJvSjmAHwpPu_7h-QUzOt1pBkzUDfiBWOGuhKFmxrshAB-6BMWjiPLEPNn4jZATt3LHOKO-EgTk8AacraUdO9ycrrmIAVjw0wgcfyN_M3WO1x1Eu5m5EtvXUVlk43qvKcpvwtCPjwFdTLPUj8yQET-IYOHX2kx1tQ2Sn195vAt1LJ5BA/s234/MelbourneSoccerMini.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="108" data-original-width="234" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCvWhHczmOlJvSjmAHwpPu_7h-QUzOt1pBkzUDfiBWOGuhKFmxrshAB-6BMWjiPLEPNn4jZATt3LHOKO-EgTk8AacraUdO9ycrrmIAVjw0wgcfyN_M3WO1x1Eu5m5EtvXUVlk43qvKcpvwtCPjwFdTLPUj8yQET-IYOHX2kx1tQ2Sn195vAt1LJ5BA/s1600/MelbourneSoccerMini.jpg" width="234" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-4252242494682393552023-05-14T11:08:00.000+10:002023-05-14T11:08:14.512+10:00New AdditionsNeeding to be able to add some things on Google Drive for the new Moorabbin City Soccer Club History blog, I've reactivated my Google One subscription. So I've added some items to the archives that have been sent to me or I came across or made in the last year.<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/doug-butcher-booklets.html">Firstly the latest edition of Doug Butcher's works have been added, Socceroos and Olyroos match details in depth for 2020-2022.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>New match programmes include:</div><div><br /></div><div>Australia v Everton (both tests) 1964</div><div><br /></div><div>Western Australia v Everton 1964</div><div><br /></div><div>South Australia v Everton 1964</div><div><br /></div><div>Australia v Everton 1987</div><div><br /></div><div>New South Wales v Cardiff City 1968</div><div><br /></div><div>South Coast United v Prague 1971</div><div><br /></div><div>Balgownie v Middlesbrough 1975</div><div><br /></div><div>Rockhampton Grand Final 1979</div><div><br /></div><div>A whole heap of newspaper soccer page compilations from when I was trying to complete the 1919-1938 season records have also been added. They are:</div><div><br /></div><div>Box Hill Reporter - 1925 1931 1932 1934 1935 1937 1938</div><div><br /></div><div>Brighton Southern Cross - 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1932 1933 1934 1935</div><div><br /></div><div>Brunswick & Coburg Courier - 1933</div><div><br /></div><div>Brunswick & Coburg Gazette - 1929 1930 1931 1932</div><div><br /></div><div>Brunswick & Coburg Leader - 1922 1923 1925 1926 1927 1928</div><div><br /></div><div>Caulfield News - 1923</div><div><br /></div><div>Coburg Courier - 1932 1936 1937</div><div><br /></div><div>Dandenong Journal - 1964 1965 1966</div><div><br /></div><div>Essendon Gazette - 1923 1924 1925 1925 1927 1928</div><div><br /></div><div>Footscray Advertiser - 1921 1922 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938</div><div><br /></div><div>Footscray Mail - 1924</div><div><br /></div><div>Moorabbin News - 1925 1926 1927 1928 1930 1931</div><div><br /></div><div>Powlett Express - 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1930 1931 1932</div><div><br /></div><div>Preston Leader - 1922 1923 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929</div><div><br /></div><div>The Richmond Weekly - 1927</div><div><br /></div><div>Ringwood & Croydon Chronicle - 1927</div><div><br /></div><div>Ringwood Mail - 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929</div><div><br /></div><div>Sandringham News - 1936 1937 1938</div><div><br /></div><div>Williamstown Chronicle - 1923 1924</div><div><br /></div><div>Yarraville Weekly News - 1919 1920 1921</div><div><br /></div><div>Also the following have been added to complete previous pages (everything on microfilm now sourced):</div><div><br /></div><div>Il Globo - 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1976 1977 1978 1983</div><div><br /></div><div>Sunday Press - 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989</div><div><br /></div><div>A new archive is the soccer pages from The Sun (which is hopefully coming to Trove soon) -</div><div>1923 1925 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally a new page of match programmes featuring Australians playing overseas has been created -</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/australians-overseas-match-programmes.html">Australians Overseas Match Programmes</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-37792677336919650002023-05-01T14:54:00.003+10:002023-05-01T14:54:48.559+10:00Moorabbin City Soccer Club History Launching March 26<p>A new website, Moorabbin City Soccer Club History, will be launched on the evening of May 26.</p><p>As many senior, reserve, thirds and colts team match records as can be found will be available to view. Each season containing links to the full match programme or any video of the games that exist.</p><p>There will be photo galleries with both team and player photos. There will also be a newly written club history, list of honours and lists of known award winners. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1oMGyFBm338j0K6j2x-xMLv_skRzOWemV5w46DuaWWpQeYWdMwa-Rv7LNcJC75uxnL1w4Dypo3g5rzLlz0kSTKpfH3t-GlJ58DVB3csrWgU1epVsju58XCKbTybSgPjbWKFnqeHIw0zbez6hjvscKkz5TyW0eNOp8j6ZD08FvYGFRtRJc60BTdmAO/s1028/MoorabbinCitySoccerClubHistory.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="1028" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1oMGyFBm338j0K6j2x-xMLv_skRzOWemV5w46DuaWWpQeYWdMwa-Rv7LNcJC75uxnL1w4Dypo3g5rzLlz0kSTKpfH3t-GlJ58DVB3csrWgU1epVsju58XCKbTybSgPjbWKFnqeHIw0zbez6hjvscKkz5TyW0eNOp8j6ZD08FvYGFRtRJc60BTdmAO/s320/MoorabbinCitySoccerClubHistory.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikQ7T5QaPkKq9aJo04-VxHjeiBkFRPyQPBVPNt1gJKJ0tpNC_F8fahF5xMBJ5KV4VGRunr6pKlCQj1WjiHHSbsPwpDCpPfHLPEOKf8SoLA7UJT6dEhS9uuKzcmcZMxUGY5NOK08AjrrZPI6UoMss3sONiE7l95UEtE1FGJHhHAbipk6WzkRZ4hMmw9/s467/Untitledms256.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="467" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikQ7T5QaPkKq9aJo04-VxHjeiBkFRPyQPBVPNt1gJKJ0tpNC_F8fahF5xMBJ5KV4VGRunr6pKlCQj1WjiHHSbsPwpDCpPfHLPEOKf8SoLA7UJT6dEhS9uuKzcmcZMxUGY5NOK08AjrrZPI6UoMss3sONiE7l95UEtE1FGJHhHAbipk6WzkRZ4hMmw9/s320/Untitledms256.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-11991876498691580092022-04-24T16:09:00.000+10:002022-04-24T16:09:19.487+10:00Latest Additions, Folder Download Links & Closing the Archives<p>The latest additions to the archive are:</p><p><b>Yearbooks and Annuals</b></p><p>New South Wales Soccer Annual 1929 (thanks to Graeme McGinty)</p><p>New South wales Soccer Annual 1930 (thanks to Graeme McGinty)</p><p>St George Association Handbook 1924 (thanks to Graeme McGinty)</p><p>Illawarra Handbook 1922 (thanks to Graeme McGinty)</p><p><b>Magazines</b></p><p>Queensland Soccer News - June 26, 1958 (thanks to Graeme McGinty)</p><p>Soccer News - June 22, 1957 - improved version (thanks to Graeme McGinty) </p><p><b>Doug Butcher Booklets</b></p><p>Australia's International Association Football Results 1970-1979</p><p><b>Programmes</b></p><p>1938 Queensland v New South Wales (thanks to Greg Stock)</p><p>1968 Olympic Park Record June 15-16 (thanks to Graeme McGinty)</p><p>2009 Northern Tigers v Sydney FC (thanks to Doug Butcher)</p><p><b>National Team Programmes</b></p><p>1992 U.S.A. v Australia (thanks to Graeme McGinty)</p><p>2016 England v Australia (thanks to Warrick Ford)</p><p><br /></p><p>Download them quickly, because on May 9, 2022 I will be cancelling my Google Drive subscription rendering most of the links on the archives useless and pretty much closing them down. </p><p>Having to deal with the security updates by Google last year requiring around half of the links on the blog needing to be re-done really drained my enthusiasm for maintaining the blog. When more links were made useless by the security updates after that, a request for support from them went unanswered and after four months the only thing I heard from them was the email alerting me that the annual subscription is due on May 10. </p><p>To allow for anyone who wants to do bulk downloads while they can, here are links (all post-security update) to the various folders I have stored most of the files in: </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Folders</b></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KC4BpKRxCXJ29Y4avsjyBfzBqaKgLhvs?usp=sharing">ABSW Collection</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1n8ojCzCS2qtsWRUuGHW4ClQqipV_H1ck?usp=sharing">ACT/Canberra Yearbooks</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-FvhlZikRBMTBt8fJBfXimVmIHbYZLHd?usp=sharing">Albury Yearbooks</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iQpPI-XMOAPZnc-O6fKoVBBB-uaBtXz5?usp=sharing">Articles</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D3v-2LB-nZawhOxjT_tPRAWDbldkbk-s?usp=sharing">Aussie Soccer Magazine</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sivhTAgC7g8w9tcLtI8z23bPGmVfDR4I?usp=sharing">Australian Football Weekly</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uHj6B4r8ELpxYCZ0xKGm-n3cZy6SSsdx?usp=sharing">Bendigo Yearbooks</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1du29iLoiF25gjfOsboxNNVUluBJQb-wh?usp=sharing">Books</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N-jWdxOOMbpLO8_WbBmVzOMeNa4DBS63?usp=sharing">Canberra Soccer News</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kPg-eprFMA3KwE42acJ0Gp74piYcR8r-?usp=sharing">Club Histories</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Uu_Q4_XmW-eBMPvbTYUNrTLJewf_UHEZ?usp=sharing">Club Magazines</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oc0uEZZyrTZY3yBR6BqZjw7khxfsF0pS?usp=sharing">Club Newsletters</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19sIopMHFe-PXvnSAqRsBixKP1Jn341Pw?usp=sharing">Club Yearbooks</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bz3wMqsZLObZmhaCZLh9Gb3mzxDzktp5?usp=sharing">Doug Butcher Books</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15yU6xrZJlYl1igkPoL2Rl0k-B0J-5Qrz?usp=sharing">Fanzines</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1di1y2nOKvkpcmN3WxFM2TwkSTDWN3Iit?usp=sharing">Go Soccer</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yc3n_Pz9ADrq4OqJQrLwGw0F-YWcqgeq?usp=sharing">Goal Magazine</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UbIfHfVEA98bgZysO19zsFMW915uMMfu?usp=sharing">Goal! Weekly Collection</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YI_WDiBihhWkMVQ3ix93G8Okk8WAL51X?usp=sharing">Hatrick Hero</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XivIhbCGksuDCibWVSJj-wZ31bqGRqyk?usp=sharing">History of Soccer in New South Wales Files</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CSdr5qM15PuvyyN1PNfwCV9KwDDK_24W?usp=sharing">Il Globo Compilations</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1v-pHhwcuF3mmWL5DH3LeOjm2PjaYoiCP?usp=sharing">Illawarra Mercury Weekly Football Features</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1b3cKAcUjf_Xog-8YB3ZckZ-2Hk0Ecr36?usp=sharing">Illawarra Soccer News</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IjHCgMjbfu-HY6BNS2evxknRlXWJCtmF?usp=sharing">Inside Soccer</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_7YRziKVPfA4HjOnFHS6APMtpBpLs1NN?usp=sharing">Junior Roo</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1a0HQXq-fu8-ZqWzfiDq6utH7uTwXNBu3?usp=sharing">Leopold Method</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1apvN3QqXqLm9G6ZfOkfhcTT8q-3k3HH6?usp=sharing">Letterheads Archive</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ktkz4vaxC_e_YXPavNMxukDMJR2UHqy6?usp=sharing">Media Guides</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13Mq2E3gFTIZcJEczLPwO6lM6dqkpGeip?usp=sharing">Memorabilia</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1saVZjWCQDd7uPK9IeSfbkfwzlSJLMI3k?usp=sharing">National Soccer Monthly</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1resph60lOiy8nDeP7GzxwOS0ZM32oRDD?usp=sharing">National Yearbooks</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12sMv8etZsjW0uZH8c5aO1iGm0D-pRJub?usp=sharing">Neue Welt Compilations</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gmiuvJSbhm8JAMn9BfVvjfWMtc4ykfCo?usp=sharing">Newspaper Soccer Pages</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1grMJVOp2TOQMoLMHEpELv6zgM51OOkT3?usp=sharing">Northern Soccer News</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EBSzQrcucdI3vHdm-HMgq-hg26uFstXC?usp=sharing">New South Wales Documents</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YF28ktNCqImGxmmNqxZXmim7HqtjRw0E?usp=sharing">New South Wales Yearbooks</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yF7AYI1uKcdbz5VEcvs3z6EvOPeCa9mz?usp=sharing">Olympic Park Records</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_k9t9UyUEdKTnkq8ly6zBhndSd4gGL6t?usp=sharing">Planet Soccer Weekly</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10EHR7Vea512TvyxcMka6lekSzo-y7GFz?usp=sharing">Programmes</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1K0hULoEDYtueswE2aeL3He4nzXI13AMz?usp=sharing">Queensland Federation Documents</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pTpfYZfAXw5Nq9yZR4MFzo-pBKUuNupp?usp=sharing">Queensland Soccer News</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xCm-kQ65pqkBvS-0_j4IgjqJ1MA8F80e?usp=sharing">Queensland Yearbooks</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TWawItzsVT8WVZPV8qgAEK7i-X_Lh4MC?usp=sharing">Round Ball</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17wSpBKVODyX8_yIgwE44au5ZaeIumVk8?usp=sharing">SASF Soccer Review</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V5WyEI9q5fGyw-1qJbcHe_MoOY2wd-Ta?usp=sharing">Shoot! Australia</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1s20q4Eu8nm-4oPeM18D5rCGGyPuVvf0k?usp=sharing">Simply Soccer</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxjATk9ezHsad0VrbGxrUjdBU00?resourcekey=0-y0HHKpe3YuIirFWKllfN6A&usp=sharing">Soccer Action</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QTi6hysYHwyqiaTReMpNl5eoBmS0Gpge?usp=sharing">Soccer Australia Magazine</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxjATk9ezHsaSTdQSXFmdzRSa00?resourcekey=0-QHNiXjxJkXeI9uSrqri9eg&usp=sharing">Soccer News Collection</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19V-6dNBOZAckzaotlShmFT1Yd6BS8vii?usp=sharing">Soccer Scene</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dR1JFexSHDF-t7hnUozrM2LEFt2emsch?usp=sharing">Soccer Star</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sAQ1nGEJOk-9K_kL8KGhVBiPd6PDWSMB?usp=sharing">Soccer Today</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IsAsgep9MdVQcr5Otl-MzQ5ezcAWhr_T?usp=sharing">Soccer Voice</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZN37FVy7N0jIbMiTQQYYg6Wm5GeUobYB?usp=sharing">Soccer Week</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Wcu3iDLWVrjqiK5OicObm8N2EUVCF0e6?usp=sharing">Soccer Weekly News</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_PRqcDsTImUW-EFJH7jHWySXqDX5euxu?usp=sharing">Soccer World</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BuzCVSOs3gFupAg2lGymO0Kn2vPz3iF0?usp=sharing">South Australian Yearbooks</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bSk9QJQRuv6Uy5WaxVTHbLZv2GuL2DQT?usp=sharing">Sunday Observer Compilations</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1p6wCnpOtUEs2bAQGP3gjtrM5T3659pha?usp=sharing">Sunday Press Compilations</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RMiFt4uXmvTH8ZupsMBjN8VqMbdCFp2c?usp=sharing">Super Soccer</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Tpv_oxTB4zVP-nr4UJohKbxO60tWuY2w?usp=sharing">Tasmanian Soccer News</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ql_rGZRIfF3FE7z8JlY9Df9FDkYej1W4?usp=sharing">Tasmanian Yearbooks</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_NyLVFUP0HPToQXEUSct2rDt6x43TSsY?usp=sharing">The Farr Post</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rxXpItwjIkdmj915X-vC69roUTqEC9vA?usp=sharing">The Soccer News</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ReKq0f0ROgEN3BSj1NDAMrlKcX5dOjbl?usp=sharing">The Soccer Weekly</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14r1hPSCFA7gf7KEqORsoiM4GIeNBm8HZ?usp=sharing">The South Australian Soccer News</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NeD1Vpr4U9M9iXBylNGtMIGxts_424ed?usp=sharing">The Sporting Globe Compilations</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ffdesPiwIntNUyW0awjaoThyEBnjoBg-?usp=sharing">Victorian Federation Documents</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1993I8oRTtYrnFGpAR4h_i3qHBHVfOzq2?usp=sharing">Victorian Yearbooks</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18EOYSqK259xLgKd9eeFSQ7ddUIi_eZ8Z?usp=sharing">Western Australian Yearbooks</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-49961450429831622382022-02-09T18:26:00.000+11:002022-02-09T18:26:00.387+11:00Australian Croatian Soccer Tournament Programmes Page Added<p>One of the most rewarding thing about maintaining the archives on this blog is when someone contributes a collection to be added. It's an added bonus when they have done the scanning themselves, which happens to be first rate as well. </p><p>So today I am happy to add a new page to the programmes archive, the <a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/australian-croatian-soccer-tournament.html">Australian Croatian Soccer Tournament Programmes page</a>. Great thanks go to Tony Cavar of Hurstville Zagreb for sending through these fifteen programmes ranging from 1979 to 2013.</p><p>I've added one honour roll, and will look to expand this in time. For now though, there are many team photographs to crop and add to my collection, and lots of mini club histories to go through. For many, these will bring back great memories. Enjoy!</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggXERU7HqDHeHUNtz1nKlzYOm9MjTRVZ9dMwbXFvlQ_GJTbBcOpJMV-WHJfoORhRnRSSz7v-J36HtHp9ee5No9S9p3XZMUqpvszKvGfpe4-HdVYbikStnkO4gz92iJNBrO35tKwJaDIJ2WNhrIL3hFYZ4X-zy-O76JmnHspVQm8W0TVSkLc5XOyomB=s746" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="504" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggXERU7HqDHeHUNtz1nKlzYOm9MjTRVZ9dMwbXFvlQ_GJTbBcOpJMV-WHJfoORhRnRSSz7v-J36HtHp9ee5No9S9p3XZMUqpvszKvGfpe4-HdVYbikStnkO4gz92iJNBrO35tKwJaDIJ2WNhrIL3hFYZ4X-zy-O76JmnHspVQm8W0TVSkLc5XOyomB=s320" width="216" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXvWL7nv58HYDLflbsgfd3QotfE9dXdDswNiYof4dbsQ2f2uD6tonavcwbLgBSpF2USguYpnn089WZ7Gdc-NvMhBAjeGsd1e9FVaHjywSOXU4tE3LZ1HqP8U4FH1sLIefJMADJ5HqQJev8d2qHnYxDxuyTgvaqk__GUiTZf-lbGDKN0Iz1MGnyELu5=s771" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="549" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXvWL7nv58HYDLflbsgfd3QotfE9dXdDswNiYof4dbsQ2f2uD6tonavcwbLgBSpF2USguYpnn089WZ7Gdc-NvMhBAjeGsd1e9FVaHjywSOXU4tE3LZ1HqP8U4FH1sLIefJMADJ5HqQJev8d2qHnYxDxuyTgvaqk__GUiTZf-lbGDKN0Iz1MGnyELu5=s320" width="228" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-61440895822452500132022-01-30T12:24:00.002+11:002022-01-30T12:24:52.615+11:00Recent Additions to the Archives (January 2022)<p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/australian-soccer-weekly.html">Australian & British Soccer Weekly Archives</a></p><p>1986 - September 30 October 7, 14, 21 & 28 November 4</p><p>1986 is now complete</p><p>1991 - January 7 & 14. The previously incomplete January 21 has been replaced with a complete version</p><p>October 22 & 29, November 5 & 12</p><p><i>Thanks to Greg Stock</i></p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/australian-british-soccer-weekly.html">Australian & British Soccer Weekly Compilations</a></p><p>NYL 1986</p><p>NYL 1989-90</p><p>National Indoor League 1986</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/articles.html">Articles</a></p><p>Il Globo - Juventus Australian Tour - 1984</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/magazines.html">Magazines</a></p><p>FFV Fun Football Schools 2005 Issue 2 June-July</p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/club-newsletters.html">Club Newsletters </a></p><p>The Shark's Net (Beaumaris SC) - 3 issues</p><p>Mornington SC Newsletter - 12 issues</p><p>The Willy Journal (Williamstown SC) - 1 issue</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/yearbooks-annuals.html">Yearbooks & Annuals </a></p><p>Football Association News Vol.1 No.1 1959</p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/memorabilia.html">Memorabilia</a></p><p>Williamstown District SC Membership Card 1928 </p><p><i>Thanks to Graeme McGinty</i></p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/programmes.html">Programmes</a></p><p>South Australia v Hong Kong Chinese XI 1953 (also appears under <a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/national-team-programmes.html">National Team Programmes</a> for Australia v Hong Kong Chinese XI)</p><p>Croatian Tournament - Melbourne Knights - 1993</p><p>Ballarat Red Devils v Sunshine George Cross 2015</p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/il-globo-compliations.html">Il Globo Compilations</a></p><p>1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1991 all added</p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/junior-roo.html">Junior Roo Archive</a></p><p>1991 - 31 issues added</p><p>1995 - September 25, October 2</p><p>1996 - August 12, October 7</p><p>1997 - July 28, August 25, September 1, 8 & 22, October 6 & 13 </p><p>1998 - August 3 & 24, September 14, 21 & 28, October 12 & November 23</p><p>This mainly follows the visit to the MCC Library, and ongoing trips to SLV to complete the Il Globo Compilations and Junior Roo Archives. This will soon be finished and I will then be scaling back to just adding Greg Stock's ASW scans.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-63434130519236106512022-01-12T18:04:00.007+11:002022-01-12T18:04:55.124+11:00Soccer News Archive Update<p>There have been 111 new issues of Soccer News added to the <a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Soccer News Archive</a>. They have been sourced and compiled by taking photos of the collection housed at the MCC Library which was put together by Roy Hay. This takes the total of editions contained in the archive to 486.</p><p>The newly added issues are as follows:</p><p>1948 - July 10</p><p>1949 - May 7, May 21, May 28, June 4, June 11, June 18, June 25, July 2, July 16</p><p>1950 - April 22, May 13, June 17, July 1, July 8, July 15, July 22, September 16, September 23</p><p>1951 - April 7, April 14, July 7, August 4, September 8</p><p>1952 - June 7, June 9, June 21, July 26, August 16, September 6, September 20</p><p>1953 - April 4, April 11, May 2, May 9, May 23, June 27, July 4, July 11, July 18, August 22, August 29, September 2, September 5, September 19</p><p>1954 - April 3, April 10, April 17, May 1, May 22, May 26, June 5, June 12, June 19, July 24, August 7, August 14, August 28, September 4</p><p>1955 - May 7, May 28, June 25, July 23, August 20</p><p>1956 - March 31, April 7, April 14, April 21, May 5, May 19, May 26, June 2, June 9, June 16, June 23, June 30, July 7, July 21, August 4, August 11, August 18, Annual Review</p><p>1957 - July 13, July 27, August 10, August 17, August 31</p><p>1958 - April 5, April 12, May 10, May 17, June 7, June 21, July 5, July 12</p><p>1959 - April 4, April 11, May 9, June 13, July 25, August 8, September 19, September 26, October 10, October 17</p><p>1960 - April 23, May 7, June 25, August 13, September 24, October 1</p><p>As usual, any information on borrowing any Soccer News issues not found in this archive would be greatly appreaciated.</p><p><br /></p>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-41242911546176751132021-12-27T18:50:00.002+11:002021-12-27T19:05:17.616+11:00Recent Additions to the Archives (December 2021)<p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/australian-soccer-weekly.html">Australian Soccer Weekly Archive</a></p><p>1986</p><p>June 3, 10, 17, 24</p><p>July 1, 8, 15, 22</p><p>September 2, 9, 16, 23</p><p><i>Thanks to Greg Stock</i></p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/australian-womens-soccer-association.html">Australian Women's Soccer Association Programmes</a></p><p>AWSA National Championships - Canberra - 1984</p><p><i>Thanks to Shaun Andrew Jones</i></p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/yearbooks-annuals.html">Yearbooks & Annuals Archive</a></p><p>A-League Women Season Guide 2021-22</p><p><i>Thanks to Andrew Howe</i></p><p>MetroStars Yearbook 2021</p><p><i>Thanks to Dimitri Peppas</i></p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/altona-star-compilations.html">Altona Star Compilations</a></p><p>1963-1976</p><p><i>Thanks to Paul Mavroudis</i></p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/sunday-observer-compilations.html">Sunday Observer Compilations</a></p><p>1981-1989</p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/neue-welt-compilations.html">Neue Welt Compilations</a></p><p>1963-64</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-89632828141802067592021-11-30T22:16:00.003+11:002021-12-27T18:50:39.703+11:00Recent Additions to the Archives (November 2021)<p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/australian-soccer-weekly.html">Australian Soccer Weekly Archive</a></p><p>1983: February 22 July 5 August 16, 23, 30 September 6, 13, 20, 27 October 4, 11 November 1</p><p>1986: February 4 (incomplete), 11 (incomplete), 18, 25 March 4 (incomplete), 11, 18, 25 April 8, 15 May 20, 27</p><p>1988: January 20 February 10 (incomplete) September 14, 21, 28 October 5, 12, 19, 26</p><p>1991: September 10</p><p><i>Thanks to Greg Stock</i></p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/australian-british-soccer-weekly.html">Australian Soccer Weekly Compilations</a></p><p>ASW Victorian Pages 1988</p><p>ASW NYL Pages 1988</p><p>ASW National Indoor Soccer League Pages 1987-88</p><p>ASW National Indoor Soccer League Pages 1988-89</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/national-team-programmes.html">National Team Programmes Archive</a></p><p>Matildas</p><p>Estonia v Australia 1997</p><p><i>Thanks to Greg Werner</i></p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/national-league-programmes.html">National League Programmes Archive</a></p><p>1999-00 Perth Glory v Northern Spirit</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/magazines.html">Magazines Archive</a></p><p>Illawarra Soccer Weekly - Issue 4 1998</p><p><i>Thanks to Travis Faulks</i></p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/articles.html">Articles Archive</a></p><p>Fil Bottalico - Australian Soccer Weekly - September 10, 1991</p><p>Tony Dorigo - Soccer Stars - September 1993</p><p>Frank Haffey - Australian Soccer Weekly - October 26, 1988</p><p>Joe Marston - Australian Soccer Weekly - February 10, 1988</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/yearbooks-annuals.html">Yearbooks & Annuals Archive</a></p><p>A-League Men Season Guide 2021-22</p><p><i>Thanks to Andrew Howe</i></p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/dimitri-peppas-documents.html">Dimitri Peppas Documents</a></p><p>South Australian Football Honours as of 2021</p><p><i>Thanks to Dimitri Peppas</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The <a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/doug-butcher-booklets.html">Doug Butcher Booklets Archive</a> has been updated with a brief bio.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-53732474290171321522021-10-29T23:01:00.002+11:002021-10-29T23:01:44.514+11:00Recent Additions to the Archives (October 2021) <p>Added to the blog this month:</p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/australian-soccer-weekly.html">Australian Soccer Weekly Archive</a></p><p>1987</p><p>All issues - starting February 3 to the final of the season on November 11</p><p>1988</p><p>August 10, 17, 24 & 31 and September 7</p><p><i>All thanks to Greg Stock</i></p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/australian-british-soccer-weekly.html">Australian Soccer Weekly Compilations</a></p><p>Victorian Pages 1987</p><p>National Youth League Pages 1987</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/national-team-programmes.html">National Team Programmes Archive</a></p><p>New Zealand v Australia - June 13, 1979</p><p>Australia Under 16's v New South Wales Under 18's - July 1, 1987</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/national-league-programmes.html">National League Programmes</a></p><p>2002-03 Adelaide City v Perth Glory, Adelaide City v Parramatta Power, Adelaide City v Olympic Sharks</p><p>2002-03 Finals - Adelaide City v Northern Spirit</p><p><i>All thanks to Luca Cetta</i></p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/yearbooks-annuals.html">Yearbooks & Annuals Archive</a></p><p>FNSW Yearbooks 2015 2016 2017 2018</p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/documents-archive.html">National Federation Documents Archive</a></p><p>AWSA High Performance Programme 1997-2000</p><p>AWSA Newsletter - The Far Post - March 1991</p><p>AWSA Newsletter - Outside The Box - October-December 1998</p><p>Australian Team Media Guide - Women's World Cup - Germany 2011</p><p><i>All thanks to Shaun Andrew Jones</i></p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/articles.html">Articles Archive</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cw01_obPow8PvdaGU9G3Rs_dC2J7JBDd/view?usp=sharing">Brian Davidson - The Australian Standardbred - June 1993</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rD98k1lh_i3G1Kd_qXf1QF6MUrswU0ky/view?usp=sharing">Frank Farina - Inside Sport - February 2000</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aAEaU6GjnpE6IzP3Vx2ZBUj5QDQv141K/view?usp=sharing">Harry Kewell - 10 Best Footballers In Britain - Match of the Day Magazine - October 2000</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16PUmcKiH8h1K47zmGW1jG1FM4FEhBd-k/view?usp=sharing">Joe Marston - Australian Soccer Weekly - November 11, 1987</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mmzBGaObJM9S583ZDywlIyI_HEvZGkzJ/view?usp=sharing">Robbie Slater - FHM - November 1999</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sAw6eammPZONXc2q4qzSa5gBfrncdAGW/view?usp=sharing">Socceroos 1974 - Ralph - July 1998</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pp2A6ljT2X2WUeF8UmMK9vk5WJ7xJgZH/view?usp=sharing">Socceroos v Argentina 1988 - Ralph - March 2001</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y8ntfFWQ1RvfMDWrOOPtCakofympTlq8/view?usp=sharing">Amy Taylor - Ralph - March 2001</a></p><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K65gr9UYhFFaXduD9ITFosVQ4RDLzFb8/view?usp=sharing">Mark Viduka - Inside Sport - July 1996</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kwKff4uZ4osbS9LrsUowx5dabp6mhloi/view?usp=sharing">Mark Viduka - Total Sport - November 1997</a></div><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uJe5U89rpyQpsAJe7fclCwmVlAWidbiB/view?usp=sharing">Mark Viduka - Ralph - March 2001</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Sx8MksArd4G0p51d5X4ePl_-nGW_WT9/view?usp=sharing">Vardar Skopje Australian Tour - Australian Soccer Weekly - February 3, 1987</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-346292551913148982021-09-06T17:18:00.023+10:002021-09-30T16:10:58.219+10:00Recent Additions to the Archives (September 2021)<p>Another housekeeping post.</p><p>New to the blog this month:</p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/australian-soccer-weekly.html">Australian & British Soccer Weekly</a></p><p>March 16, 1982</p><p>April 20, 1982 (added 08/09/21)</p><p>May 4, 1982 (added 09/09/21)</p><p>May 11, 1982 (added 11/09/21)</p><p>June 15, 1982 (added 16/09/21)</p><p>July 20, 1982 (added 16/09/21)</p><p>February 24, 1988 (added 21/09/21)</p><p>March 2, 1988 (added 21/09/21)</p><p>March 9, 1988 (added 21/09/21)</p><p>March 16, 1988 (added 21/09/21)</p><p>March 23, 1988 (added 22/09/21)</p><p>March 30, 1988 (added 22/09/21)</p><p>April 6, 1988 (added 22/09/21)</p><p>April 13, 1988 (added 22/09/21)</p><p>April 20, 1988 (added 23/09/21)</p><p>April 27, 1988 (added 25/09/21)</p><p>May 4, 1988 (added 26/09/21)</p><p>May 11, 1988 (added 26/09/21)</p><p>May 18, 1988 (added 26/09/21)</p><p>May 25, 1988 (added 26/09/21)</p><p>June 1, 1988 (added 30/09/21)</p><p>June 15, 1988 (added 30/09/21)</p><p>June 22, 1988 (added 30/09/21)</p><p>June 29, 1988 (added 30/09/21)</p><p>July 6, 1988 INCOMPLETE (added 30/09/21)</p><p>July 13, 1988 (added 30/09/21)</p><p>July 20, 1988 (added 30/09/21)</p><p>July 27, 1988 (added 30/09/21)</p><p>August 3, 1988 (added 30/09/21)</p><p>January 21, 1991 INCOMPLETE (added 17/09/21)</p><p>January 28, 1991 INCOMPLETE (added 19/09/21)</p><p>February 25, 1991 (added 19/09/21)</p><p>August 13, 1991 (added 20/09/21)</p><p>March 4, 1993</p><p>November 15, 1993 (added 08/09/21)</p><p>December 21, 1993 (added 09/09/21)</p><p>All thanks to Greg Stock</p><p>REPAIRED:</p><p>May 17, 1989 missing p.5 added 16/09/21</p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/australian-british-soccer-weekly.html">Australian Soccer Weekly Compilations</a></p><p>National Youth League Pages 1981 (added 16/09/21)</p><p>National Youth League Pages 1982 (added 16/09/21)</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Soccer News (Victoria)</a></p><p>June 9, 1966</p><p>Thanks to Damian Vojtek via Tony Persoglia</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/national-league-programmes.html">National League Programmes</a></p><p>1998-99 Northern Spirit v Perth Glory</p><p>1998-99 Sydney Olympic v Wollongong City (added 21/09/21)</p><p>Thanks to Greg Stock</p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/soccer-action-compilations.html">Soccer Action Compilations</a></p><p>Dockerty Cup Finals</p><p>National Youth League pages 1985 (added 11/09/21)</p><p>National Youth League pages 1986 (added 11/09/21)</p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/goal-weekly-compliations.html">Goal! Weekly Compilations</a></p><p>Roy Hay - Blast From The Past columns</p><p>Thanks to Tony Persoglia</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/articles.html">Articles</a></p><p>VPL Grand Final 1996 - Australian & British Soccer Weekly match report (added 11/09/21)</p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/memorabilia.html">Memorabilia</a></p><p>Illawarra Football Association Presentation Night Programme 2010 (added 16/09/21)</p><p>Thanks to Travis Faulks</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/magazines.html">Magazines</a></p><p>Illawarra Soccer Weekly 1998 Issue 2</p><p>Thanks to Travis Faulks</p><p><b>Links that had become dead restored:</b></p><p>Australian Soccer Weekly:</p><p>July 23, 1991 </p><p>August 20, 1991</p><p>September 3, 1991</p><p>Soccer Action:</p><p>February 11, 1976</p><p>February 25, 1976</p><p>March 17, 1976</p><p>July 21, 1976</p><p>February 15, 1978</p><p>February 7, 1979</p><p>July 11, 1979</p><p>February 6, 1980</p><p>February 13, 1980</p><p>February 23, 1982</p><p>January 29, 1986</p><p>February 5, 1986</p><p>February 19, 1986</p><p>February 26, 1986</p><p>April 9, 1987</p><p>Soccer News:</p><p>May 2, 1959</p><p>May 16, 1959</p><p>May 23, 1959</p><p>April 25, 1974</p><p>VSF Yearbook 1972</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-64896534238599242952021-08-28T11:59:00.002+10:002021-08-28T12:03:15.428+10:00Compiling Compilations<p>Now it is looking that through the work of Greg Stock and Greg Werner we may one day have the full set of <i>Australian Soccer Weekly</i> (later <i>Australian & British Soccer Weekly</i>) available in the archives one day, I've commenced work on making compilation files of various segments of the paper. Here's a little tutorial for anyone else that may be interested in doing the same.</p><p>Obviously a large collection like a full run of a newspaper contains a massive amount of data. The reason I'm making compilations is that some of this data related to specific competitions is not available elsewhere on the internet. The compilations may be later used to assist in addressing that. </p><p>The compilations I'm working on are National Youth League pages, National Indoor Soccer League pages and pages on local Victorian soccer post the demise of <i>Soccer Action</i>. There are many other topics though, that some may want to make compilations of. Perhaps a fan of a particular NSL or state league club may want to compile a file with just the match reports of that club's matches. Or like I want to do, maybe people in other states would like a single document with the weekly page for their state or area on it. You may want to have all the women's football pages in one place etc etc.</p><p>The main website I use is <a href="https://www.ilovepdf.com/">https://www.ilovepdf.com/</a></p><p>To start, what you do is click on Split PDF then upload a issue of the paper you want to take pages from.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw75J9ddk_gKN2Sof3Gzsbg62B_DVo7sJJPqWeX9dlxmG8XBQBqG6bckO0H30xCbei7ek-daAAL6kkx1782SEKDnc0B2MUYc0uqOF9Tu4izLjK5ETIH6NqeR-1jtREINBGQUfOXtwAsLQ/s1860/PDFs1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="837" data-original-width="1860" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw75J9ddk_gKN2Sof3Gzsbg62B_DVo7sJJPqWeX9dlxmG8XBQBqG6bckO0H30xCbei7ek-daAAL6kkx1782SEKDnc0B2MUYc0uqOF9Tu4izLjK5ETIH6NqeR-1jtREINBGQUfOXtwAsLQ/s320/PDFs1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><br /> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuyrfHhTaGXY6T0csNiBnpuZggX4bxe3PeLl3sFgQorZqKf1ssTEeen2z2gJGZ1Py-x21vxt4l0KRRq5KqL2ru6kAhkw_mXghA05QN11PvdwXm1NBsYCb4FtmPRWzuGbpYbiDjfjkY_Ic/s1882/PDFs2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="1882" height="75" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuyrfHhTaGXY6T0csNiBnpuZggX4bxe3PeLl3sFgQorZqKf1ssTEeen2z2gJGZ1Py-x21vxt4l0KRRq5KqL2ru6kAhkw_mXghA05QN11PvdwXm1NBsYCb4FtmPRWzuGbpYbiDjfjkY_Ic/s320/PDFs2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Once it is uploaded, you can select which pages you want to remove.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDs5OhGpiuiUzhuKCrrLBJGRaicctDq4lClhluzUBR0HrBxR2B9NMAV4ax3kAj-TlaubsYjim64tlURB1U5MREz0iPklLimJmSzlOFUh_bMzdUvgJvU2U7rwsfW6Frh3dRL5vEaVzlHuQ/s1858/PDFs3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="836" data-original-width="1858" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDs5OhGpiuiUzhuKCrrLBJGRaicctDq4lClhluzUBR0HrBxR2B9NMAV4ax3kAj-TlaubsYjim64tlURB1U5MREz0iPklLimJmSzlOFUh_bMzdUvgJvU2U7rwsfW6Frh3dRL5vEaVzlHuQ/s320/PDFs3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>You can split multiple pages, so if the stuff you want is on pages 3, 4 and 5 you set that as your range and you will end up with a single file with those three pages on it. You can select multiple ranges from the one upload.<div><br /></div><div>Once you have your pages split, you need to rejoin them. Simply select the Merge PDF option and upload all your split pages, line them up in the order you want them by dragging around the pages, then click on the big red Merge PDF button.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlrfEZzYYdyXcYQGyvRpO2TUpnlNmC8HiAcnS933EYVgCNR6_4Yq6pGD0nbxT2b-BIqUHL_o3eDvVYp37vuN4k9qz0rsbbXtte7QXb2YlVtSKtleQS5SY1Up_zK2zbX3w_KAuYnQOds24/s1850/PDFs4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="833" data-original-width="1850" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlrfEZzYYdyXcYQGyvRpO2TUpnlNmC8HiAcnS933EYVgCNR6_4Yq6pGD0nbxT2b-BIqUHL_o3eDvVYp37vuN4k9qz0rsbbXtte7QXb2YlVtSKtleQS5SY1Up_zK2zbX3w_KAuYnQOds24/s320/PDFs4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Once you have your new compilation, you may want to compress it a little and I Love PDF lets you do that as well. There is another website I do that with is well, and it's one that may be required prior to splitting some newspapers and magazines.</div><div><br /></div><div>I Love PDF is free, but to a limit of files of a size of 100mb or less. <a href="https://tools.pdf24.org/">https://tools.pdf24.org/</a> lets you compress files that are larger than that, which may be required for some of the newspapers in our archives. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Dkxyhsj8YvgtIlx_7ZueZgWHEeHpzWObXcTbYluCBMVCvFIlXhVf78d9-41L5YqBP1qSDptpXAewU3UL_A2c2xI5cvAS_JX2HhVy0KYeTX8ElxJ0xyDkWQ4ZyrmlRKnlNUNdxdLlI0E/s1864/PDFs5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="757" data-original-width="1864" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Dkxyhsj8YvgtIlx_7ZueZgWHEeHpzWObXcTbYluCBMVCvFIlXhVf78d9-41L5YqBP1qSDptpXAewU3UL_A2c2xI5cvAS_JX2HhVy0KYeTX8ElxJ0xyDkWQ4ZyrmlRKnlNUNdxdLlI0E/s320/PDFs5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Select a file to upload, then wait for that to happen. It may take a while. Once the loading bar indicator is fully black, it will show you the file and it's existing size. Then you can click on the compress button.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh58z5yLiNMIedzUIAhiNQ9p229KGDJaXb2FLnq8MnzGgrFCA7X7d6JvvWj2s1Qprujp3ZQrx1FL6ubpjngc6qDweE2jjCmnPNdjo9_02GYtEr3Fwm_PfY1iC_cCPdXuINMhZQO0bnBj6g/s1871/PDFs6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="1871" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh58z5yLiNMIedzUIAhiNQ9p229KGDJaXb2FLnq8MnzGgrFCA7X7d6JvvWj2s1Qprujp3ZQrx1FL6ubpjngc6qDweE2jjCmnPNdjo9_02GYtEr3Fwm_PfY1iC_cCPdXuINMhZQO0bnBj6g/s320/PDFs6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>The site compresses them a lot quicker than it takes to upload, but unlike I Love PDF does not download it's work automatically, so once the file has been compressed you will need to click on the download button.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0gIDNpYzvUUh2byh8rv46m8in4pUygYi-h8BObyCE7tgsFJO4POq-J9qvTM55C-dZEWHFRDO8V3imlkzdvOlGfVwPLgR7peQV_9F2bxvvmdFGcmUulF4InlzCjEiuQnu6dyVnVpxhyphenhyphenYY/s1754/PDFs7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="829" data-original-width="1754" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0gIDNpYzvUUh2byh8rv46m8in4pUygYi-h8BObyCE7tgsFJO4POq-J9qvTM55C-dZEWHFRDO8V3imlkzdvOlGfVwPLgR7peQV_9F2bxvvmdFGcmUulF4InlzCjEiuQnu6dyVnVpxhyphenhyphenYY/s320/PDFs7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Once that is done, you will have a compilation of pages in a manageable file size. </div><div><br /></div><div>As I've said, the options for making compilations are enormous. You may want to make one of player profiles only, one of a particular columnists' work (Johnny Warren, Tommy Anderson, Knut Werner), or one of national team match reports. If anyone makes a compilation which they'd like to share with others, get in touch and you can do that by having it added to the archives on this site. <br /><div><br /><i>As always, click on images to enlarge.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i><div><br /></div></div></div>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-28297783380315136122021-08-10T17:31:00.029+10:002021-09-06T17:18:44.614+10:00Recent Additions to the Archives (August 2021)<p>To make it easier for people to see what's been added to the various archives on the blog, I'll be posting Recent Additions to the Archives posts like this every once in a while. For this one, which I've included to include (August 2021) in the title, I'll edit the post to include anything else that gets added during the month. These have come from scans by Greg Stock, so thanks again Greg.</p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/australian-soccer-weekly.html">Australian Soccer Weekly Archive</a></p><p>1980</p><p>April 1</p><p>October 7</p><p>October 14</p><p>October 21 (added 11/08/21)</p><p>October 28 (added 11/08/21)</p><p>November 4 (added 12/08/21)</p><p>1982</p><p>October 19 (cover added to the previously incomplete version)</p><p>1984</p><p>February 14 (added 26/08/21)</p><p>July 17 (added 29/08/21)</p><p>July 24 (added 29/08/21)</p><p>July 31 (added 24/08/21)</p><p>August 28 (added 28/08/21)</p><p>September 4 (added 29/08/21)</p><p>September 25 (added 27/08/21)</p><p>October 9 (added 27/08/21)</p><p>1985</p><p>February 19 (missing pages added, file compressed 17/08/21)</p><p>February 26 (added 16/08/21)</p><p>1986</p><p>April 1 (added 23/08/21)</p><p>April 22 (added 12/08/21)</p><p>April 29 (added 13/08/21)</p><p>May 6 (added 15/08/21)</p><p>May 13 (added 15/08/21)</p><p>July 29</p><p>August 5 (added 17/08/21)</p><p>August 12 (added 18/08/21)</p><p>August 19 (added 19/08/21)</p><p>August 26 (added 19/08/21)</p><p>1987</p><p>August 12 (added 21/08/21)</p><p>1988</p><p>January 27 (added 21/08/21)</p><p>February 3 (added 23/08/21)</p><p>June 2</p><p>November 2 (added 21/08/21)</p><p>1989</p><p>February 2 (added 29/08/21)</p><p>September 20 (added 24/08/21)</p><p>1990</p><p>April 11</p><p>April 18</p><p>May 2</p><p>1993</p><p>March 1 (added 26/08/21)</p><p>March 8 (added 31/08/21)</p><p>March 11 (added 30/08/21)</p><p>June 10 (added 25/08/21)</p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/australian-british-soccer-weekly.html">Australian & British Soccer Weekly Compilations</a></p><p>National Youth League pages - 1984 (added 29/08/21)</p><p>National Youth League pages - 1989 (added 29/08/21)</p><p>Victorian Soccer Pages - 1989 (added 29/08/21)</p><p>Victorian Soccer Pages - 1990</p><p>National Indoor Soccer League - 1989 (added 25/08/21)</p><p><a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/soccer-action-compilations.html">Soccer Action Compilations</a></p><p>National Youth League pages - 1984 (added 29/08/21)</p><p><a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/national-league-programmes.html">National League Programmes</a></p><p>Northern Spirit v Adelaide City 1998-99 (added 31/08/21)</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm a couple of missing issues away from being able to complete ASW compilations for the 1989 National Indoor Soccer League season, as well as the 1989-90 National Youth League season. The compilations I would like to finish cover the three categories - Victorian (State/Premier League) Pages, National Youth League Pages and (James Hardie) National Indoor Soccer League Pages.</p><p>Google Drive doesn't have any stats so I have no idea what content has been viewed or downloaded, which would have been nice to know. If there are people out there downloading libraries I thought this may help alert them to new content.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-34873121008582240182021-08-04T19:02:00.001+10:002021-08-04T19:03:39.947+10:00Blog (Activity) Suspended<p>A couple of months ago I decided to retire from spending around 20 hours a week on adding to the archives contained on this blog, for a variety of reasons. </p><p>I'd decided not to bother going to the State Library to compile newspaper compilations and do research when they reopened after yet another lockdown. I was a little dirty on them being so slow to reopen that section of the library. I had a finishing line in mind for what I noted <a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-sporting-globe-and-other.html">I would be seeking in my last blog post</a>, and it was constantly moving away from me. After the best part of a couple of years under lockdown and restrictions, sitting in libraries and on computers all the time does not seem like a liberating freedom. Neither did finding boxes of stuff to scan.</p><p>I had spent a lot of time on the computer, either scanning or creating pdfs from jpgs, joining emailed pdfs, searching for items via the Wayback Machine, most of it with a football game from somewhere being streamed and cast onto the television alongside it. What I'd noticed was that the games had become mere background noise. If I missed a goal because I was working on something, sometimes I would not even bother to catch it on the replay, so little was I invested it the match.</p><p>This was brought into sharper focus when I watched the premiere of the <a href="https://sport.optus.com.au/videos/os28203/os28203-football-belongs">Optus Sport <i>Football Belongs</i> </a>documentary. With many using it to argue for or against the regular political issues in the game, or the sport's place in the Australian landscape in general, I was more drawn to the glimpses of club life that I missed. The moments that reminded me of when I really felt the passion, and every kick did matter. With my two clubs now gone, and not having another one in me, those moments are gone forever. </p><p>I'm happy enough to keep adding the contributions emailed to me by the network established over the years - great people like Paul Mavroudis, Greg Stock, George Cotsanis, Greg Werner, Peter Rowney, Graeme McGinty, Travis Faulks, Laurence Hall, Tony Persoglia, Doug Butcher, Warrick Ford and Ian Syson.</p><p>Every once in a while I may put up a list of what they have sent me and what's been added to the archives, because that will still be ticking along for a while yet. I won't be tweeting out a link to every item added as I add them, so that may be needed to keep some up to date with where to find new items.</p><p>The blog was down for a few hours yesterday after I received this email from Blogger/Google.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJO97lkRe-zsdslj7Su7LskeEVRtJQxUHwNJI5kmhzEqMkx782Xc2r_tEK7Rcoit5RxJoPg8CElZqd0Vj9cCYrxC9zaxaYi5HPR9NTDjipKP1StGjR-rzH3hP1vviCRrphPVMK4SYHx54/s1667/Bullshit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="1667" height="58" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJO97lkRe-zsdslj7Su7LskeEVRtJQxUHwNJI5kmhzEqMkx782Xc2r_tEK7Rcoit5RxJoPg8CElZqd0Vj9cCYrxC9zaxaYi5HPR9NTDjipKP1StGjR-rzH3hP1vviCRrphPVMK4SYHx54/s320/Bullshit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div> <i>Click on image to enlarge</i></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>I found the link to appeal, and the site was restored. I think the issue may have come from the advertising spam posted in the comments sections of posts and pages, so I have disabled commenting for now and spent a few hours catching up on removing comments relating to football tips, sports streams, call girls, drugs and supplements and a lot of stuff in Turkish and some Asian alphabets I didn't understand. <div><br /></div><div>This scare has made me even more wary of spending too much more time actively working towards expanding it further, given so many hours of work could one day very easily disappear with nothing to show for it.<br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-7091204713034517902021-05-03T17:44:00.003+10:002021-05-03T17:44:25.599+10:00The Sporting Globe and Other Compilations<p>Another housekeeping post, about new additions to the archives that some people may have missed if the don't follow me, or use, Twitter.</p><p>I have added yearly compilations of the soccer pages in <i>The Sporting Globe</i> from 1955-1969. This covers the period from when the paper's coverage on Trove ends (1954) to when the amount of Sunday games, and the paper shedding more and more sports to focus mainly on racing and Aussie Rules football, sees the game's coverage decline (1970's). This archive now has it's own dedicated page <a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/the-sporting-globe-compilations.html">here</a>.</p><p>Another archive with it's own dedicated page now is the <i>Neue Welt</i> compilations archive. Again, this is a yearly compilation of local soccer pages. <i>Neue Welt</i> was a German-Australian publication, and the content is in German, mostly written by Fritz Schwab, father of future <i>The Age</i> and <i>Soccer Action</i> journalist Laurie Schwab. The <i>Neue Welt</i> archive can be found <a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/neue-welt-compilations.html">here</a>.</p><p>Also new is an archive of Junior Roo, <i>Il Globo</i>'s junior soccer supplement. It can be found <a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/junior-roo.html">here</a>.</p><p>At this stage yearly <i>Il Globo</i> compilations are housed in the History Documents page, but they will get their own page when a few more are added. This content is in Italian, unlike the Junior Roo supplements which are in English.</p><p>Also new to the History Documents page, but with a view to getting it's own page once more compilations are, err, compiled is the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/14d6mZGHB1gLJE_MRZaiQTCPrrMz7t5R3/view?usp=sharing">Sunday Observer compilation for 1977</a>.</p><p>I will probably end up doing <i>Neue Welt</i> compilations for it's entire run on the SLV microfilms. With Junior Roo the microfilms end at 1994, then I will start working back until it commences, adding the <i>Il Globo</i> local soccer pages along the way. 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The first Australian soccer newspaper I bought would have been Les Shorrock's successor to <i>Soccer Action</i>, <i>Soccer Star</i>, in 1989. It was in the early 1980's that I acquired my collection of Soccer Actions, given to me by the then Richmond physio John Morris (also a former Moorabbin City, Oakleigh Cannons and Victorian state team physio). </p><p>The <a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/soccer-action-archive.html">Soccer Action Archive</a> was created in August 2016. Originally I planned uploading one scan a week from my own collection, which was probably only 50-60% complete at the time. I soon started uploading more issues per week than that, and as my own collection was nearly all scanned began looking at sourcing the issues I didn't have. The final few issues took a couple of years to sort out, but here we are today, every issue ever available to everyone as a free download.</p><p><i>Soccer Action</i> was held in affection by a great many people, which brought about willing contributions towards completing this project. Damian Smith was the first to lend me some missing editions, and over time I can thank him, Steve Delmenico, Pave Jusup (and the Melbourne Knights/Frank Burin Collection), George Cotsanis (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/myworldisround/">My World Is Round</a>), Sam Barres, Paul Mavroudis (<a href="https://southmelbournefc.blogspot.com/">South of the Border</a>), Andrew Howe, Tony Persoglia and Nick Hatzoglu for supplying the papers and scans to archive every issue published. Thanks to the latter pair, the final four issues (March 5, May 14, July 16 & October 8, 1986) have been added today to make the archive complete.</p><p>So now the works of Laurie Schwab, Les Shorrock, Craig MacKenzie, Knut Werner, Billy Vojtek, Rale Rasic, Johnnie Warren, Les Murray, Andrew Dettre, Peter Katholos, Brian Mossop, Ron Smith, Leif Jensen, John Cerubbi, Zika Nikolic, Peter Georgiou, Tommy Anderson, Bruce Waddell, Meno Toutsidis, Stephen Kalus, Alex Vesic, Kyle Patterson, John Taylor, Peter Scott, Frank Pangallo, Jim Cook, Manos Milios, Paul Moon, Oscar Perea, Walter Pless, Joe Lenzoni, Ted Smithies, Philip Micallef, Peter Desira, Ricky Rosso, Mike Lynn, Rocky Di Zio, Tim White, Peter Windsor, Allan Crisp, Stephen Dettre, Ken Kontra, Mike Mikolajczyk, Mick Mitten and John Mangan amongst numerous others will remain available to all, online.</p><p>All right <a href="http://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/p/soccer-action-archive.html">here</a>, or in the tab at the top of the page.</p><p>To download a folder with every issue in it all at once, try <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxjATk9ezHsad0VrbGxrUjdBU00?usp=sharing">here</a>. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtsAc4NamAvw5vDrcZMzW6Q8kZJeQg0R3IVCvBOxFNscYx4A8Iweb1O1EpLrHZBc1X7GB8oFuZoIOYe-_KMs2mKywnn9RQt4ntNK__Jh96EzeQhyphenhyphendNmf7JpGSPNWkmWSaymKR3eNDBhmE/s2247/SoccerAction1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="2247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtsAc4NamAvw5vDrcZMzW6Q8kZJeQg0R3IVCvBOxFNscYx4A8Iweb1O1EpLrHZBc1X7GB8oFuZoIOYe-_KMs2mKywnn9RQt4ntNK__Jh96EzeQhyphenhyphendNmf7JpGSPNWkmWSaymKR3eNDBhmE/s320/SoccerAction1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdCdggv2Se2rBYITrFROG5R5RkzE_AGStDZ3rPTVxMnvFW7lJz3JnwEO3L7je0F55ykLMUB0_Mv7dtvGNwQE3dMkpDkkHDjr2CflXC501Cz7XbxrB2p8iK5oUYfcBsFAfRm1LeiMFi3FE/s2262/SoccerAction5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="2262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdCdggv2Se2rBYITrFROG5R5RkzE_AGStDZ3rPTVxMnvFW7lJz3JnwEO3L7je0F55ykLMUB0_Mv7dtvGNwQE3dMkpDkkHDjr2CflXC501Cz7XbxrB2p8iK5oUYfcBsFAfRm1LeiMFi3FE/s320/SoccerAction5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br /></p>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-24037539288729039302020-09-13T10:42:00.000+10:002020-09-13T10:42:03.855+10:00Working On Records<p>So with the the A3 scanner having packed it in, and the A4 scanner not being much use scanning A3 newspapers and being temperamental itself as well, my focus has turned to tidying up a very messy hard drive.</p><p>Over the years I've started records for both Moorabbin City and Richmond Alemannia, but it was very piecemeal. Seasons here and there, some detailed, some with next to nothing.The formats of the records varied from season to season, and between the clubs. Most team line-up files included just a surname, some had a first initial. So getting these records in order is long overdue.</p><p>When it comes to match records, the starting point is obviously the date of the game, score and goalscorers, with a venue, referee name and team line-ups all preferable.</p><p>Sadly, over the years, goalscorer information for anything below the top tier in Victorian football has been abysmal. Official top goalscorer awards for leagues only regularly commenced in the early 1980's. Even the <i>Soccer News</i>, the "Official Organ of the V.A.S.AF.A." did not publish goalscorers alongside it's results from the 1940's through the 1970's. </p><p>Venues can be sourced from VASFA/VSF Yearbooks, in most cases. There will be the odd club that was still searching for a home at the time of publication. Sometimes these can be picked up in a news item in Soccer News, sometimes they can't.</p><p>Referee's names were often published in the mainstream media alongside fixtures for that week's games at times from the 1920's to the 1930's. <i>Soccer News</i> only did this with much frequency in the late 1960's.</p><p>Team-line ups were a feature of early newspaper match reports, at least for the top levels, that began to wane after World War II. With the advent of <i>Soccer News</i>, you could get predicted line-ups for that weeks games, but match reports of the previous weeks games would not have any. Sadly most clubs did not take up the offer to have their teams listed in <i>Soccer News</i> by sending them through, despite constant appeals and threats of fines and leading to this part of the magazine eventually being dropped.</p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ldORAuE0BX1_VF8_UC0aFpqmv39uWNqX/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Moorabbin City</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cKIgvDApRiRXUVMOE6zqmrAH3j6JYYNB/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Richmond Alemannia</a></p><p>The files above are what I've gathered for both clubs up to the end of 1964 so far. It gives an indication of how much of this information is missing. Later seasons will be easier and be more comprehensive when I work up to them, my greatest task there being adding first names to the existing line-ups I have.</p><p>In the era covered above, we find that grounds were still being referred to as the street or road they were on before a park had been given a formal name (see Patterson Road, Bentleigh being the latter Victory Park and Olive Street, Hampton being Sillitoe Reserve). Richmond have gone from the Migrant Hostel in Maribyrnong to Survey Park and Burnley Oval to Olympic Village and Schintler Reserve for their Victorian State League home games (with Olympic Park appearances as well).</p><p>We can also see how much use the parks of Middle, Yarra, Princes and Royal got. </p><p>When they are both finished, maybe the State Library will be open and accessible once again to see if any more information can be added.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956556201675436228.post-30892261857726692732020-07-06T15:30:00.001+10:002020-07-06T15:30:14.510+10:00What Remains of Soccer News July 1924Unlike our counterparts in New South Wales, very little remains of any local football publications prior to World War II. 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It is a different story in Victoria. The State Library holds just the single issue of a pre-WWII soccer publication, the Soccer News from July 5, 1924.<br />
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It is not in great condition, and comes along with a photocopied version when requested from off-site storage. I didn't even open all the pages on the original, as the tape trying to hold parts together seems to have stuck some pages to each other and I didn't want to chance it.<br />
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It's is numbered 8, with no volume number. So that would be the eighth issue that season, in probably it's first, and more than likely, only year. It's the official organ of the V.A.B.F.A. (Victorian Amateur British Football Association) and the Metropolitan A.S.F.L. (Metropolitan Amateur Soccer Football League).<br />
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The Editorial Talks page is taken up with the editor wanting to teach and explain rules, which is a bit boring. Then there is a letter from Geelong, relating to the difficulties in getting teams to travel down there in those days.<br />
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The next page is a bit more interesting, with info on three "Soccer Men As I Know Them" and the Canadian tour. Page 3 has more detail on the Canadians. We then get some tables, and the expected line-ups for Australia v Canada, some Club Gossip, the Dockerty Cup draw.<br />
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The highlight is a barney between the Press Representative of the Newport club and the Soccer News editor. You see why the paper may not have lasted that long.<br />
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It is rounded out by a page of Items of Interest, which reveal a few player's names (rather than just a surname), tribunal verdicts. It's not very expansive, sadly.<br />
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It's in such a state it really should have been scanned and retired, only to be shared via USB.<br />
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As in the previous season, there were now four divisions of the Metropolitan League. Albert Park, Prahran City, Box Hill and Heidelberg were all on the rise. Issues of promotion and relegation were not to be that straightforward though, as reports throughout the season contained talk of a <a href="https://melbournesoccer.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-great-schism-1927-28.html">proposed "District" scheme, which was eventually adopted.</a><br />
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Footscray Thistle became the team of the Footscray district, and in 1927 the Thistle name was not always used in reports. Cup winners Naval Depot, along with Melbourne Thistle and Melbourne Welsh, were among first division clubs that were not accepted into the District League for 1927. Neither was Northumberland and Durham United, which virtually killed them off (a Footscray United would emerge in the Melbourne and District League).<br />
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The discarded clubs hastily established the Melbourne and District League, which would end up comprising of two divisions of eight teams in 1927. The split was quite acrimonious, and after two seasons the District Scheme was abandoned, probably having done more harm than good.<br />
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The season's representative fixtures included the Local International (a huge win for Scotland), a North v South clash and a First Division v The Rest match. There does not appear to have been any state team games.<br />
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It took a bit of work to reconcile published results with the final published tables, as a few lower division results were missing. In this season 1-0 was the standard method of dealing with forfeits/walkovers though there was once case of a team being awarded a win and two points without the goal difference being altered.<br />
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Pleasingly enough goalscorers were named in the First Division results to establish that Preston's Doncaster was the top goalscorer with 11 goals for the season. Unfortunately I have yet to see his first name, or even an initial, appear in any newspaper reports. Especially sad given that he was a Victorian representative player, having scored twice in his only (known, as yet) game for the state against South Australia at the end of 1925. It is a shame a complete Victorian state team record has never been established, no "caps" have been awarded and we don't even have the first names of many of those players from that era.<br />
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Anyway, here it is, the...<br />
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n4hcbe7RMBAK5diqeACRqv063CY9F3Hb/view?usp=sharing">Victorian Season File 1926</a><br />
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<br />Mark Borichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770336959193320692noreply@blogger.com0