Fans Dejected – Collection Rejected

WE ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE SAD FACES OF YOUNG FOOTY FANS WHO, AGAINST ALL THEIR (MISPLACED) EXPECTATIONS, SEE THEIR TEAM LOSE.

Nylon back bag with drawstring top and shoulder strap, 2013, 44 x 32 cm. Collection of Mandy B.
Nylon back bag with drawstring top and shoulder strap, 2013, 44 x 32 cm. Collection of Mandy B.

The Melbourne Football Club is such a team. I am familiar with its form as I barack for them; I have also seen my young nephew plan to have his birthday party at the ‘G – no where in his birthday plan was there a vision of a massacre of his team. But that is what happened and the song of the moment became ‘Its my party and I’ll cry if I want to’ rather than the Melbourne theme song.

Here is a recently collected item abandoned at an op shop in Kew. It is a membership bag and still contains: sticker book (incomplete); shoelaces; transfers.

Back cover of 'Melbourne Football Club: Young Demon Member 2013 [sticker book]', colour cover stapled with blank pages, 9.5 x 12 cm. Collection of Mandy B.
Back cover of ‘Melbourne Football Club: Young Demon Member 2013 [sticker book]’, colour cover stapled with blank pages, 9.5 x 12 cm. Collection of Mandy B.
Inside sticker book.
Inside sticker book.
Sheet of transfer from the Melbourne Football Club, 2013. 21 x 10 cm. Part of the Yong Demons' bag contents.
Sheet of transfers from the Melbourne Football Club, 2013. 21 x 10 cm. Part of the Yong Demons’ bag contents.

 

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