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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017
The 1989 Season
At the start of the 1989 season, Phil O’Keefe, who later on became a Parkside Football Club legend,
showed great promise in a practice match for Footscray against the Brisbane Bears. Phil who played
at Wembley Park before going to East Ballarat was an outstanding player for years in the local
competition.
Phillip O'Keeffe (9 games for Footscray and 19 goals)
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Another Parkside Football Club legend Zeno Tzatzaris (34 games for Footscray) was a theme of Les
Twentyman’s colorful writing style. Twentyman claimed that, “Footscray defender Zeno Tzatzaris
has his own special recipe (tactic) for upsetting opposition forwards this year, it seems. Zeno
consumes huge amount of homemade garlic and yogurt sauce with every meal….including his
breakfast cereals….and effect has his opponents’ eyes watering at the pre-siren handshake. Zeno
brought along his special potion to a function I attended last week.
He told me that garlic has long been used to cure colds, flu and keep the devil away. But now I find it
keeps everyone away.”
Les Twentyman, The Western Times, March, 1989
Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider
