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.

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.