I had an insulation guy coming to do a quote and thought I would have a poke around first.
My building was a bakery, and then a printer.
I found some copies of Soccer World up in the roof. It was, it seems, a weekly newspaper they used to print. It even had my street address on it.
So I can tell you that in 1964 the soccer advocates were carping on about soccer not getting enough local media coverage.
And a Queensland ALP senator said in Parliament that he thought the Department of Immigration should promote on TV overseas the fact that soccer was played in Australia as it would help attract more immigrants. The Minister for Immigration said that if they were going to promote anything, it would be Australian Rules because 'that is the only game of football there is in Australia'. I suspect the Minister for Immigration might have been a Melbourne boy.
The soccer gang were aggrieved and said 'We never knock Aussie Rules. We never say that it's glorified aerial ping-pong played by sleeveless giants.'
In another story, there was a scuffle between spectators at a soccer match that made the broader news. But the soccer boys pointed out that scuffles happen all the time between supporters of other codes.
And the Rural Bank in an ad were offering 3.5% interest on 12 month deposits.
Scott
My building was a bakery, and then a printer.
I found some copies of Soccer World up in the roof. It was, it seems, a weekly newspaper they used to print. It even had my street address on it.
So I can tell you that in 1964 the soccer advocates were carping on about soccer not getting enough local media coverage.
And a Queensland ALP senator said in Parliament that he thought the Department of Immigration should promote on TV overseas the fact that soccer was played in Australia as it would help attract more immigrants. The Minister for Immigration said that if they were going to promote anything, it would be Australian Rules because 'that is the only game of football there is in Australia'. I suspect the Minister for Immigration might have been a Melbourne boy.
The soccer gang were aggrieved and said 'We never knock Aussie Rules. We never say that it's glorified aerial ping-pong played by sleeveless giants.'
In another story, there was a scuffle between spectators at a soccer match that made the broader news. But the soccer boys pointed out that scuffles happen all the time between supporters of other codes.
And the Rural Bank in an ad were offering 3.5% interest on 12 month deposits.
Scott