Back Story

#FWF2020 - History and heroes: an insight into creating football stories by Fair Play Publishing

#FWF2020 - In Conversation with Remo Nogarotto by Fair Play Publishing

#FWF2020 - Supper Club with Ray Gatt, Simon Hill and Murray Shaw by Fair Play Publishing

#FWF2020 - Opportunity knocks: making 2023 count for the next 100 years of women’s football by Fair Play Publishing

The audio recording of Craig Foster in conversation with Michael Cain at the 2020 Football Writers' Festival, 21&22 November 2020.

#FWF2020 - In Conversation with James Johnson by Fair Play Publishing

Peter Paleologos - Author of ’The Australian Youth Footballer Regulatory Guide by Fair Play Publishing

George Tsitsonis - Author of ‘Achieving the Impossible’

Matthew Hall - Author Of ‘If I Started To Cry, I Wouldn’t Stop’ by Fair Play Publishing

David Picken - Author Of ‘The Time Of My Football Life’ by Fair Play Publishing

Have a listen to Antony Sutton, author of 'Support Your Local League - a South-East Asian Football Odyssey' and curator of the popular Indonesian football blog, 'Jakarta Casual'.

This week ‘Football Insiders’ chats to Dr Jorge Knijnik, Associate Professor in the School of Education and the institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University about his 2018 book, ’The World Cup Chronicles’ as well as Brazilian football and politics.

We talk with Professor John Maynard of the University of Newcastle about the state of play in Australian football as well as his second, revised and updated edition of ’The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe’.

Football Insiders’ talks to two genuine insiders - FOX Sports’ Simon Hill and Archie Fraser on A-League, Premier League and football’s broadcasting future.

Archivist and author, Peter Kunz, talks about his book that details the development of football in Australia in a period where records barely existed - from 1859 to 1949.

It’s not often you read an ‘unashamed football novel’, but Texi Smith has written two of them and his third is about to be published.

Join Australian football’s stats guru, Andrew Howe, talk about his epic Encyclopedia of Socceroos and even more facts and figures.

Join author of ’Surfing for England - Our Lost Socceroos’, Jason Goldsmith, as he talks about his book on the greatest players never to have played for Australia. (April 2020)

Join journalist and author Trevor Thompson as he talks about 'Playing for Australia' - his book on football, society, culture and Australia's engagement with Asia through football in our first 'Football Insiders' podcast. (April 2020)