2025 PROGRAM
The Stories that Sport Forgot
DATE:
Saturday 21 March, 2026
LOCATION:
Sky Theatre
COST:
$25.00
Sport is often celebrated as a shared national language, but some stories never make the highlight reel. In this engaging session, Paul Nicholls and Trevor Thompson uncover lesser-known episodes, scandals, and sidelined figures that have shaped the history of sport, particularly the most global game of all, soccer. They explore what happens when sport’s myths collide with reality, and why some history takes decades to surface. A conversation about the hidden histories of the games we think we know.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.