Episode 91 - Tony Persoglia, and recent acquisitions of Victorian soccer history archives

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Oh boy, lots of technical problems from Paul's end this week. 

Paul is joined in hosting duties this week by Football Victoria History & Heritage Coordinator, Tony Persoglia.

We begin the show by cleaning up some sundry details. Mark Boric retired, but keeps pumping out material! And while Greg Stock is updating OzFootball's National Soccer League archive, what are we going to do with the pages with match comments like the ones here? And we also look at the perils of updating pages and links that are used as references on Wikipedia, which may be the only reference to certain overseas players and their time in Australia. Also, a proposal to maybe get a professional librarian to do a little seminar on how to use Trove better. And finishing with an update on the state and tour game data set and archive update.

In our main segment (best watched maybe on the Facebook stream), Tony talks about the recent soft launch of Football Victoria's history page on Facebook, and the acquisition of photo archive, and hopefully of Victoria's Soccer News. Tony talks about a Hakoah Melbourne archive; a Spotswood (1910s and 20s) cache; the collection of the late Luciano Fioravanti, whose collection spans much of the history of post-war Italian-Australian soccer in Melbourne;, and finally, the archive of Dino DeMarchi, the Juventus (Melbourne) legend of the 1960s.

In our final segment we have 100 Years Ago Today, where Paul's laptop with Windows 10 is just about to keel over and die, and thus we are obliged to rush through Tasmania playing against Victoria a hundred years ago.

Episode 22 - an hour long chat about record keeping and cultural memory

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The latest Mark Boric scan and upload news includes Mark's collaboration with Tony Persoglia. And we wonder what happened to the culture of record?

Ian finds a player missing from Jason Goldsmith's Surfing for England, one Frank Mitchell, who had an extended career in England.

Meanwhile Paul has been watching NFL history videos, specifically this one, which discusses the history NFL name change and franchise moves - and would love to do one for Australian soccer.

Where are the Australian soccer statues? (see this piece for a long read on Australian sports statues) And some spit-balling about would eventually become this map.

Then some chat about a Football Victoria history survey. Then Paul has a go at Football Victoria for its poor record keeping regarding the Dockerty Cup final, and the poor culture of record-keeping for  (you'll have to use your imagination for the papers Paul is holding up which were nominally visible on the Facebook stream).

(On the right, see an extract of a player's record - in this case belonging to Nicholas Tsiaras, a long term soccer official who was even on the Football Victoria board at one point - from the My Cricket website.)

Then 100 Years Ago Today with the 1919 Dockerty Cup final - and more record keeping foibles across the decades. Then to Ipswich and Newcastle, and across the country the soccer competitions are nearing their completion.

Moving on, Ian begins discussing his pending trip to Newcastle, and his desire to catalogue every soccer player from Newcastle prior to World War 1, with the hope of finding each one who enlisted. See this article for more information on the Merewether Advance honour roll. And this for the chat about Billy Maxwell.