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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017
Marvellous Footscray - The First Half of the 20th Century
Des Carroll’s interview with Herb Pascarl for the local Footscray Mail in 1997, reaffirms the notion
that from little things big things grow.
Pascarl vividly remembers how he,
“…got together with four other men towards the end of 1930, (and how) he could not have conceived
their discussion would lead to the establishment of the biggest football league in Australia.
The result of their meeting in a barber’s shop in Nicholson Street, Footscray, led to the establishment
in 1931 of the eight-team Footscray District Football League (FDFL).
Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider
