Episode 16 - Footscray, Footscray, it's a hell of a town!; Preston Makedonia match programs

Download and listen to episode 16 here.

Albury kicks off at night, or so Paul has been told. (you can also hear Paul shuffling papers like he's channeling his inner Birchabald T. Barlow)

We get an answer from Mark Boric as to why Victorian clubs took so long to start their season in 1919.

Thanks to Travis Faulks, we finally get some Illawarra content, including historical nicknames!

(also we get promised an intern, a promise which fails to materialise)

Thanks to Garry McKenzie, we get an overview of Brisbane church soccer.

Then 100 Years Ago Today with Victorian scores, and no news... a West Australian team misses its train... then to Newcastle and code-harmony...  a Brisbane story tickles Ian's code-war and class-war yearnings... in Goobumgee, there's some games being played, where Ian takes on the legitimacy of "dance committees" to Paul's displeasure...

After the break, it's back to talking about Footscray, providing a historical overview of soccer in the area, including clubs and grounds across the decades. Footscray City, Footscray United (two kinds), Footscray Capri, Footscray JUST... more Footscray content than you can poke a stick at. Plus all the usual digressions into public space, suburbia, works teams, etc.

In the final segment, Paul looks at some old Preston Makedonia match day programs from the late 1980s - they're rather good, with a lot of interesting content spanning supporter etiquette, advertisements, politics, nationalism, overseas soccer, news, player profiles, battles with local councils, even some poetry,  - but most importantly about what the editorial style says about the balance the struggle to exist between two cultures.