Welcome!

By registering with us, you'll be able to discuss, share and private message with other members of our community.

Sign Up Now!

Past Socceroos Chat

LFC said:
such a piss off all this is frowned upon by the latter uniformed gens.
Judge the league only qualied in '74 - all this easy low balling stuff.

All the ethnics did was just want to play football here and establish their clubs and give to the game and the supporter base.
You were boxed in living in this biased white policy country of the times.
Like it was known, wog football.
Anyway past is the past but dam has the mud stuck towards the ol clubs.
Click to expand...
You are looking at it perhaps from an NSW perspective.
Wasn't like that everywhere.
1954, interstate carnival competition- almost the entire SA squad were ethnics: Italians, Hungarians, Balts, Germans etc

The entire NSW squad were anglos- no ethnics at all.

Seems to have been something rotten in the state of NSW.
 
www.facebook.com

113K views · 1.9K reactions | The Hungarians, the Greeks, the Italians, the Maltese, the Croatians, the Serbs, they became his extended family because that was football in Sydney." Johnny Warren found his extended family in the passionate, pulsating

The Hungarians, the Greeks, the Italians, the Maltese, the Croatians, the Serbs, they became his extended family because that was football in Sydney." Johnny Warren found his extended family in the...
www.facebook.com www.facebook.com

Note the FB link quoted by J Warren and in Sydney.
The NSW perspective is relative hate to say it for we and Melb have/had the largest % of immigrants I suspect living in the burbs and both States are the big 2 of the country.

Interesting that 1 tournament in '54 nsw was full of anglo's.
Credit to them.
Not rotton - kulcha war fare more like it.
 
LFC said:
www.facebook.com

113K views · 1.9K reactions | The Hungarians, the Greeks, the Italians, the Maltese, the Croatians, the Serbs, they became his extended family because that was football in Sydney." Johnny Warren found his extended family in the passionate, pulsating

The Hungarians, the Greeks, the Italians, the Maltese, the Croatians, the Serbs, they became his extended family because that was football in Sydney." Johnny Warren found his extended family in the...
www.facebook.com www.facebook.com

Note the FB link quoted by J Warren and in Sydney.
The NSW perspective is relative hate to say it for we and Melb have/had the largest % of immigrants I suspect living in the burbs and both States are the big 2 of the country.

Interesting that 1 tournament in '54 nsw was full of anglo's.
Credit to them.
Not rotton - kulcha war fare more like it.
Click to expand...
Not sure what you are getting at here.
Prior to the Association/Federation split, ethnics were prevented from playing at the top level of Sydney football. So were not selected for the state team. That's why the NSW state team of 54 was all anglo.
This situation led to the split a few years later.
Johnny W. , born in 1943, started playing senior football after the split was resolved and the Federation were running the show. That was why he was able to happily mingle with "wogs".
 
ashtongate said:
Not sure what you are getting at here.
Prior to the Association/Federation split, ethnics were prevented from playing at the top level of Sydney football. So were not selected for the state team. That's why the NSW state team of 54 was all anglo.
This situation led to the split a few years later.
Johnny W. , born in 1943, started playing senior football after the split was resolved and the Federation were running the show. That was why he was able to happily mingle with "wogs".
Click to expand...
Way way way before my time but the experience down here was a little different.

Plenty of "foreign" names in the rep teams, the "explosion" of new clubs was more about not being enough clubs to accomade the influx of migrants than not being able to play at the existing ones.

1780547886432.png

The Story of Football in Victoria: Part 5

footballvictoria.com.au footballvictoria.com.au
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
Way way way before my time but the experience down here was a little different.

Plenty of "foreign" names in the rep teams, the "explosion" of new clubs was more about not being enough clubs to accomade the influx of migrants than not being able to play at the existing ones.

View attachment 7386

The Story of Football in Victoria: Part 5

footballvictoria.com.au footballvictoria.com.au
Click to expand...
Yes, at the '54 Carnival Victoria fielded a good balance of ethnics and Anglos.
Every state except NSW had some ethnics.
South Australia's squad had only two anglos out of 15 players.
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
Asking without having any clue but why do you think that was?
Click to expand...
Just going by Trevor Thompson's history "One Fantastic Goal", the administrators of the NSW Association were extra reactionary and cautious, just wanted to protect their own sinecures as guardians of the game. I can't actually make a judgment as to whether they were actually racist or not.
In SA the massive influx of post war European migrants, forming their own clubs straight away, had swamped the game. Many anglo clubs had to fold up in the early 50s.
SA had far sighted administrators like Bob Telfer and Bill Barkham who accepted the situation and gave the new comers plenty of encouragement and support.
 
Just got a timeline reminder of Japan away 2013 on this day. I was in New York travelling and only had radio and the forum to follow. It was nervous reading. I couldn't believe it when Oar scored and had to focus that we'd actually scored. The audio for the penalty saw my heart sink as we were so close to a crucial bump in points.

I'd have to check the maths but late against Iraq we let them waltz into the box. I think the later results of other teams wouldn't have mattered had we drawn.
 
ashtongate said:
Not sure what you are getting at here.
Prior to the Association/Federation split, ethnics were prevented from playing at the top level of Sydney football. So were not selected for the state team. That's why the NSW state team of 54 was all anglo.
This situation led to the split a few years later.
Johnny W. , born in 1943, started playing senior football after the split was resolved and the Federation were running the show. That was why he was able to happily mingle with "wogs".
Click to expand...
All and good mate - yes I am talking about after the split that is far more important as far as I’m concerned.
Thanks for your intel.
 
Hope Bozza can still make the trip to America. 2 tours with a decent line up of ex players going. Mooy over there too on one tour for some appearances.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top