‘Football is a Fever Disease Like Recurrent Malaria and Evidently Incurable’: Passion, Place and the Emergence of an Australian Anti-Football League

The annual general meeting for Australian football clubs: An accountability and entertainment event

“…Ladies watching football matches added greatly to the social aspect of football (Hess, 2000). Football clubs established special relationships with supporters who would worship their teams in a similar vein to that of a religion (Klugman, 2011).…”

“…Football clubs were born from community involvement and like other community groups (such as churches) were the focus of public life in the nineteenth century (Frost et al, 2013). Historically, football generated a rare passion with the power to fashion identity and shape communities (Klugman, 2011).…”