Episode 26 - David McGaw; national team match programs; Reg Date; Les Clisby

Photo of the John Perin statue sourced by Dimitri Peppas.

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Episode 26 starts off with Ian's 60th birthday spectacular.

The "Mark Boric Express" has been updating his blog with more things, as per usual. The "Paul Mavroudis Amble" has also had an update, featuring additions to Paul's South Melbourne Hellas match program archive, but also a couple of additions to his much less impressive than Mark's document archive.

In the map update segment, Paul Hunt makes note that the reason there are no Tasmanian markers is because he doesn't seem to be able find anything fitting the criteria. There's also some discussion about the overkill of naming items in Murwillumbah soccer - see this work in progress document on the history of Murwillumbah soccer.

Then there's some chat about the half-forgotten story of the wax statue of Adelaide City champion John Perin, with a photo provided by Dimitri Peppas (whom Paul mistakenly calls Dimitri "Pellas"; very embarrassing error).

Ian then muses on the notion and value of biography with regards to Australian soccer history, and his continuing realisation that his slavish devotion to rejecting the "great man in history" theory may have been limiting. This leads to a discussion on Reg Date. and a cross-code charity game of rugby league and soccer which Reg Date starred in.

Then we had a chat with David McGaw, a Novocastrian with a penchant for collecting Socceroos and other Australian national team match programs. We discuss form, content, and the irreplaceable tactile mnemonic aesthetic of match programs, and the lengths it takes David is also hoping to revive the practice of FFA providing match programs at Socceroos games. (for a selection of Australian national team match programs, see Mark Boric's national team program page). For copies of The Score fanzine, see here for volume 1, and here for volume 2.

We finally get to 100 Years Ago Today, which segues across to discussion of footage of Australian soldiers playing soccer during the Second World War, and the exploits of soccer playing pilot Les Clisby.