The Footy Dictionary
From 'A-Grader' to 'Zoning', the hilarious and definitive A-Z of Aussie Rules
$27.99
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2026
Summary
Australian Rules football is a code, a culture, and - unofficially - a language. Like any language, it evolves, contradicts itself, and makes very little sense when you think about it for more than a few moments.
Part glossary, part cultural commentary, part long-overdue piss-take, The Footy Dictionary reveals the absurdity, brilliance and strange beauty of the game’s ever-expanding vocabulary, and what it says about Australia’s national obsession. Compiled by sports reporter…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761473920 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761473921 |
| Author: | Vince Rugari, Andrew Wu |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
| Imprint: | Allen & Unwin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 394g |
| Dimensions: | 153mm x 234mm |
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Vince Rugari
Vince Rugari lives in Sydney and covers the Swans and the Giants for the Sydney Morning Herald. He was born into a passionate Port Adelaide family and grew up going to games at Football Park. He later moved to the ‘frontier states’, where he helped set up the Bond University Australian Football Club and completed two pre-season training sessions with the Griffith Swans in New South Wales’ Riverina Football League before conceding that he was better off writing about the game, and that the game was better off without him playing it.
Andrew Wu lives in Melbourne and reports for The Age on the AFL in winter and cricket in summer. A second-generation football fan, he was introduced to the game by his father one Saturday afternoon in the 1980s when they listened to a Fitzroy game on the radio. He dodged the bullet of supporting the doomed club only to submit himself to a life of football misery by picking a cursed club in a neighbouring suburb. His love of the game inspired many years compiling a forgettable body of work within the four walls of a club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association.
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