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Rubashov said:
At my age? Id die.

When we were kids we all played football and cricket because we had the facilities. Nobody was interested in little athletics that was a 20 minute drive away to the only facilities our side of town. Why do that **** when you can walk two blocks to the footy club and have a kick with your mates? Cost like 3 bucks to play on the weekend and if you didn't have it one of the coaches would sort it and one of the mums would make sure you always had a clean uniform if your parents couldn't. The football and cricket clubs were big parts of the community, especially back then when gangs and drugs were everywhere.
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You need to be more specific when you say “football” around here.

Is it soccer football?
Is it American football?
Is it Rugby?
Is it League?
Is it Aussie rules?

Just saying football doesn’t nearly quite cut it anymore.
 
The Midnight said:
You need to be more specific when you say “football” around here.

Is it soccer football?
Is it American football?
Is it Rugby?
Is it League?
Is it Aussie rules?

Just saying football doesn’t nearly quite cut it anymore.
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In the 90s in Sunshine there was no rugby, no American football, if you wanted to play soccer you could but it was all provided through ethnic social clubs, like Melbourne Croatia or Sunshine George Cross (Maltese club) both of which were 5 minutes from my place. So we played Aussie rules, kids from all backgrounds it was a complete melting pot. Sunshine in the 80s and 90 was a rough place, there was a heroin epidemic in the 90s which led to street gangs forming, a lot of the kids I grew up with ended up on heroin and a couple had died before we were 15. You could buy a hit of heroin for as little as 7 dollars. Most of the kids who were involved in sport, managed to avoid all that, for the most part, it was weird like mates would ride their bikes to footy training after training their bike would be stolen so we'd walk round to another kid we'd grown up with house and tell him to give us the ****ing bike back. He'd be like sorry guys didn't know it was so an so's bike, he was a lovely kid, he's been dead 20 years.
 
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