The dark side of Australian football’s ‘great sporting fairytale’

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Featuring Craig Foster and superfan Ian “Dicko” Dickson, Came from Nowhere tracks the rise of divisive A-League club Western Sydney Wanderers.

Against a sea of red and black flags, an angry throng punches the air and chants, “Go f--- yourself!” as police look on. These are scenes not from a protest, but from the march of the Red and Black Bloc , the fans of

“That may be why this documentary is well-timed because it gives fans an opportunity to look back on what was possible, and continue to dream that the game can one day be representative of the passion of the people that follow it.”at the Sydney derby. But while Foster opposes antisocial behaviour, he believes an overreaction by police, media and game authorities, has dampened enthusiasm.

Wanderers ambassador Ian “Dicko” Dickson, who also appears, grew up in the UK barracking for Birmingham City . The former“It seems to be a blind spot that Australians have always had for this game,” says Dickson. “When I arrived in Australia in 2001, it was dismissed as an ethnic pastime … When the started in 2012, I was on talk radio in Sydney, and there were people clutching their pearls, saying the hordes were at the gates, and it was the end of civilisation.

 

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