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AAMI about-face means good and bad news

Authored by: Michael Christiansen
on Tuesday, December 30 2008 @ 01:11 pm ACDT

Just whilst we're at it, I'd love to recommend an article along the lines of the wonderful world leading (at the time) football heritage of Australia.
Looking at a list the other day, by the time the English 'football league' was established in 1888, there were already 'leagues' in SA, WA, Tassie, Vic (inc. Bendigo) and NSW (Broken Hill in 1888 and Newcastle in 1883).

It's this Newcastle one I'd love to hear more about - the Black Diamond Trophy. Still going and I've seen it indicated as the oldest continuous league trophy or something like that.

btw - I was amazed when reading Geoffrey Blainey's "A game of our own", to come across a reference to Stratford vs Sale in the 1880s........amazing that such small country towns were playing football with clubs established before the vast majority of the worlds soccer clubs - for example.

This is a heritage that needs to be made MORE known within Australia, let alone internationally.

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