These episodes were all pre-recorded on a Friday morning, and usually played on the following Sunday.
Episode 1 - What is the point of this show? What should the game be called in this country? And we have some time at the end to talk about soccer and war, and the missing Soccer Ashes.
Episode 2 - extended discussion on the relationship between Australian soccer and literature; equally extended discussion on Australian soccer trophies, historic, missing, valuable...
Episode 3 - missing trophies; soccer in schools; Prahran
Episode 4 - Les Street; Falcons Park; Morwell Falcons; John Jaap; Woogaroo
Episode 5 - Bonita Mersiades and Fairplay Publishing; How to use Trove.
Episode 6 - Walter Pless; Tasmanian soccer; school soccer; state federation histories
2019 (May to December)
The intention was to return in February of 2019, but life got in the way, and we assumed that we had run our course. But we managed to resume in May, and despite occasional breaks due to illness, travel, or work commitments, we kept up a reasonable output of episodes.
2019 saw us go live rather than pre-recording our shows. From May until October, we went to air live on Thursday nights at 7:00pm. From November, after a short hiatus, the show went to air on Tuesdays at 7pm, with several people co-hosting the show with Paul in Ian's absence.
Episode 7 - Lucianne Lauffer; researching women's soccer; Knox City books; back from our hiatus
Episode 8 - Vanessa Luchessi; Adelaide City archives; 100-year-old-clubs; Association of Football Resources in Australia
Episode 9 - Religion and Australian soccer; Review of Trevor Thompson's Playing for Australia
Episode 10 - Greg Downes and international women's soccer; Melbourne Victory, Footscray Park, and the historic battle for ground and parks.
Episode 11 - Tony Persoglia and OzFootball.
Episode 12 - Les Street; Dapto Showground; Sydney Football Stadium; the handball rule
Episode 13 - Adamstown Rosebud's 130th anniversary; Leopold Baumgartner and The Little Professor of Soccer; lots of catching up on other stuff.
Episode 14 - Adam Winkel and the Copa del Rey; Reg Rapley; soccer club nicknames
Episode 15 - Soccer club nicknames; Newcastle (looking for foundations); battle over public spaces (Footscray Park, Albert Park)
Episode 16 - A potted history of soccer in Footscray; late 1980s Preston match programs; the usual grab bag of stuff.
Episode 17 - A thorough analysis of Peter Kunz's Chronicles of Soccer in Australia; a chat about the Dinmore Bushrats, past and present.
Episode 18 - Victor Brincat, George Cross, and the Australia Cup; plus much more else besides.
Episode 19 - Adam Muyt and Dutch-Australian soccer
Episode 20 - Darren Giancaspro; Spencer Gulf soccer; Port Pirie, Port Augusta, and Whyalla; Como Cup and Prahran City;
Episode 21 - Jason Goldsmith and Surfing for England; Paul Nicholl's creative non-fiction; Mt Isa and Mt Oxide.
Episode 22 - Grumbling about record keeping, and thinking about cultural memory.
Episode 23 - Ian's Newcastle trip; Bounty hunting; Paul's map.
Episode 24 - George Cotsanis; films; Roma; Manchester United; state teams; cocktails; the end of Chaplin Reserve
Episode 25 - Our favourite books; Paul's Australian soccer map; Alec Barr and hit and run drivers
Episode 26 - David McGaw; Australian national team match programs; Reg Date; Les Clisby
Episode 27 - Roberto Pennino; Superga air disaster; Torino; record keeping.
Episode 28 - Bonita Mersiades; Fairfax photographic collection; Soccer in the Communist newspaper Tribune; 1999 Oceania Club Championships.
Episode 29 - Greg Stock and Studs Up; the average age of players in national league soccer
Episode 30 - Lee McGowan and the Matildas; remembering Pim Verbeek
Episode 31 - Les Street and Aussie rules grounds used for top-flight soccer; Paul Connolly's book, The Mighty Bras
Episode 32 - Matthew Klugman, Francesco Ricatti, and Italian-Australian soccer supporters; the "simple game"; end-of-year inventory of listener projects.
2020 (February - December)
In 2020 we went to air live on Tuesday nights at 8:00pm. During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown the show went into hiatus for a few weeks, until resuming in isolation-mode on Thursdays at noon, from episode 38 until episode 68, where we got back in the studio for our last episode of the year; this was broadcast at 6:00PM on a Thursday.
Episode 34 - Paul Hunt and Tasmanian soccer pre-1915; Max Lucchesi and Weston Bears.
Episode 35 - AustLII database; demise of Australian Associated Press
Episode 36 - The end of Footscray JUST and Schintler Reserve; A Letter From the Front.
Episode 37 - Mark Boric; Australian club deaths; St George Budapest; Moorabbin City
Episode 38 - First pandemic episode - lots of catching up, Footscray, Mildura, databases, updates
Episode 39 - Greg Stock, and discussion of the future of Australian soccer history; Ian revisits his work on Warwick in Queensland.
Episode 40 - Victorian Italian club merger flowchart; making sense of records; 1930s public transport monopolies.
Episode 41 - Darwin 1941; a potted history of coaching in Australia; the doorbell incident.
Episode 42 - Greg Werner and the Grassroots Football Project; Optus Sport's Football Belongs Series.
Episode 43 - Paul Hunt and the Australian Trustees Soccer Football Association; the potential fate of Fox Sports' soccer archives; review of Andrew Howe's webinar on the national and club origins of Socceroos and Matildas representatives.
Episode 44 - The lonely death of Walter William Williams, an extended look at researching a tragic incident from 100 years ago. Plus the FFA secures 15 years of A-League archives.
Episode 45 - Gary McKenzie on Quilp, the first (known) Aboriginal soccer player. Some musings on the new Trove interface; some updates on last week's Walter Williams story.
Episode 46 - Rale Rasic's autobiography; copyright; what different match programs can tell us about the state and nature of Australian soccer at any given time.
Episode 47 - Resetting narratives - joined by recurring guest Greg Stock, we spent probably not enough time on discussing the effects on the sense of a unified Australian soccer history from constant attempts at fresh starts
Episode 48 - Foolish purchases; early days of SBS soccer; Tarrawanna's poor sportsmanship; soccer argues for an enclosed ground in Albert Park, 1953 edition.
Episode 49 - A discussion on the word "soccer"; photos from the provate collection of the family of Mario Grego.
Episode 50 - 50th episode pseudo-spectacular
Episode 51 - The many instances of Sandringham; aerogrammes from Frankston to Old Blighty;
Episode 52 - Tony Persoglia and the Victorian club archive; introduction to the Wayback Machine
Episode 53 - Roy Hay; Harry Dockerty; Scots in Australian soccer; Introduction to the Internet Archive.
Episode 54 - review of Tim Cahill's autobiography; Chinese university students and Queensland soccer in the 1950s.
Episode 55 - Victorian Police Soccer Club; works/factory soccer league; when did soccer in Melbourne actually stop in the 1890s?
Episode 56 - Samantha Lewis, 1975 Women's Asian Cup, researching Australian women's soccer history, and a dose of deep theoretical thinking for good measure.
Episode 57 - Rambling discussion on religion and Australian soccer, and a few other odds and ends.
Episode 58 - Garry McKenzie joins us to talk about the very interesting life of early Australian soccer identity Arthur Prinsep.
Episode 60 - Official and unofficial clubs songs; 1880s Melbourne soccer; increasingly poor time management.
Episode 62 - Moreland City documentary; GR Handley and soccer in Murray Bridge.
Episode 63 - Andy Harper, and a lengthy chat on XI Principles no.2, resetting narratives, and questions of legitimacy.
Episode 64 - Non-English language materials on Trove.
Episode 65 - Lawrie McKinna's Poltical Football; the eternal optimism of Australian soccer.
Episode 66 - Diego Maradona in Australia; Irish views of sport and their influence on Australian culture.
Episode 67 - Max Lucchesi's legacy at Adelaide City and Weston Bears. with Col Forster (Weston Bears), and Vanessa Lucchesi (Adelaide City)
Episode 68 - The effects of the lack of deep myth-making on Australian soccer, and its deleterious effects on a shared sense of cultural continuity.
2021 (February - )
In 2021 we began the year broadcasting from the studio on Thursday nights at 6:00PM.
Episode 69 - A gentle return to broadcasting; the place of soccer in Australian film and television; the limits of memory - personal, living, cultural, mythological.
Episode 70 - Frank Parsons; Archie Thompson, and much more besides.
Episode 71 - Simon Boegheim, Football Queensland History website, and Queensland Football History Project.
Episode 72 - Paul and Ian visit the Footscray Historical Society; statues; Narrogin; academic blindspots.
Episode 73 - Paul Nicholls' and his list of "20 most important Australian soccer matches of the 20th century"
Episode 74 - The epistolary scheming of Willem Siebenhaar in 1890s Perth. Also, Paul gets given a bunch of 1980s NSL videos.
Episode 75 - Greg Werner on the late Vic Dalgiesh; soccer as a speciality subject on Australian quiz shows
Episode 76 - Chatting with Heather Reid and Marion Stell about "Women In Boots". Paul muses, alone, on the futility of doing Australian soccer history, but in a different way.
Episode 77 - Athas Zafiris chats with us about Joseph Bilbie, Australian soccer player and war hero; Andrew Howe discusses promotion and relegation during the National Soccer League.
Episode 78 - School soccer in Victoria in the 1950s and 60s.
Episode 79 - Dylan Arvela and his book on Woonona's 2020 championship; Ian digs into the soccer life of Footscray Thistle and Victoria player George Macaulay.
Episode 80 - Roy Hay on John James Liston, who was president of Victorian soccer and the Victorian Football (Australian Rules) Association in the 1930s and 40s.
Episode 81 - a fairly relaxed episode looking at junior and school soccer in Melbourne in the 1960s. Also detours into the value of working class cultures.
Episode 83 - Paul gets upset at the "Greece" Football Belongs episode; Ian continues on his research into George Macaulay.\
Episode 84 - Paul is joined by Jason Goldsmith to discuss the feature length Football Belongs documentary. This episode features an attempt at talkback radio.
Episode 85 - Paul, Greg Stock, and Garry McKenzie, discuss online state federation football history efforts, as well as Football Australia's renewed efforts at its online history and Hall of Fame pages.
Episode 87 - George Cotsanis discusses newly unearthed homemade National Youth League footage 1992; Greg Werner discusses the football lives of late Socceroos John Anderson and George Haniotis.
Episode 88 - Germanton (Holbrook) 1978, with Garry McKenzie.
Episode 89 - Les Street co-hosts with Paul, discussing national league venue standards, and the risk of burnout of amateur historians.
Episode 90 - Jason Goldsmith and Lucas Gillard discusses overseas guest players and their book Be My Guest.
Episode 91 - Tony Persoglia discusses recent archival acquisitions made by Football Victoria from the public; we also have updates on other, digital projects.
Episode 92 - Queensland soccer researcher Peter Eedy joins us to discuss his work, as well as the 100th anniversary of yhe women's soccer match at the Gabba.
Episode 93 - Andrew McDonald joins us to discuss the history of death on the Australian soccer field; we also discuss a Simon Hill piece on Australian soccer place in Australian culture
Episode 94 - Andy Paschalidis joins us to pay tribute to the passing of legendary Australian soccer journalist John Economos; Greg Downes pops in to discuss his book, Dedicated Lives, on Australian pioneers of women's soccer.
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