Uncle Tony barracks for Port. Aunty Kip barracks for Port. Uncle Tony is a joker. I’m not sure of his job. I remember he gave me a Crowded House cassette when I was seven, one Christmas in Helmsedale Avenue, Glengowrie. Aunty Kip ...
PSIM, a football club based in Yogyakarta and founded in 1929, has seen better years. The club is well and truly in the second tier of the domestic competition and suffers from poor management and fan violence. The violence not only occurs ...
The Catastrophe of PSS Sleman
Sofyan, an Acehnese man, living in Yogyakarta runs a small stall by the side of Lapangan Minggiran (Minggiran Field) in the southern part of the city. His regular customers are largely ex-soccer players from the local leagues. ...
Football Violence in Indonesia: A Case from Yogyakarta
On Sunday 12th October, 2014, Muhammad Ikhwanuddin, was killed in a car park near Adi Sucipto airport, Yogyakarta. He had been dragged from the bus, beaten with a baseball bat and stabbed in the ...
*This piece was originally published on Shoot Farken, here.
Football is a practice of cultural production. Being a fan is intrinsic to issues of identity – nationalism, parochialism, ideology, gender. The football stadium is, most often, an overwhelmingly male space. Fans ...
Andy Fuller, Playing Cities Making Sport, Yogyakarta: Tan Kinira Books, 2014
This book came out of an attempt to archive what I have written over the past two-to-three years. Initially, I wanted to collect all of my shorter writings and essays. ...
Joko Riyanto went to the game with a few thousand rupiah in his pocket. He left the game, carried by trembling police, with Rp.3,000 (30 cents, for what it is worth) in his pocket and a bullet hole in the right side ...
Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies, London: Penguin Books, 2012.
Here is Leanne Shapton’s website: leanneshapton.com
I am reading Leanne Shapton’s Swimming Studies, yes I am.
Shapton is a Canadian artist and former elite swimmer, who almost made it to the ...
Football Nationalism
Nasionalisme Sepakbola Indonesia
Garuda di Dadaku – The Garuda on My Chest – is the title of a series of feature films telling the story of a boy’s desire to play for the Indonesian national football team. The title of ...