Ange & The Boss is screening at Cinema Nova at 12.30pm this Sunday 8th June. It’s also NOW STREAMING on Docplay, a documentary only streaming platform. It offers 14 day free trials that are cancellable within that window.
I say at in the introduction to this interview that Simon Hill was my ringtone for a time. ‘Tim Cahill has done it again! What a goal by Tim Cahill! Oh it’s a wonderful moment in Kaiserslautern!’. It was a perfect articulation of maybe the most exciting sports watching moment of my life, when the Socceroos went 2-1 up against Japan.
This entire interview is pretty great, so I’ve lifted it from the archives of the Speakola podcast to have a run over here at Good one, Wilson.
I’m also sharing it with our ‘Ange & The Boss’ list. The episode ends with 3AW audio of the Uruguay penalty shootout from 2005, and if you’ve never heard that, it’s guaranteed to make you smile. And over the outro music, there’s 2021 me panhandling for Ange & The Boss, back when it was called (working title) ‘Ferenc Puskas and the South Melbourne Hellas’. Well thanks to nearly 150 donors, we did get to the line and, unbelievably, it’s had a three month run at Cinema Nova, as well as in every other state of Australia. What a year it’s been.
Simon Hill has been a true friend of the documentary. He hosted the Q&A at the film’s very first Australian screening, at Palace Norton Street in Sydney as part of the Australian Greek Film Festival. He lent shout quotes to our poster, he tweeted and shared and promoted ‘Ange & The Boss’.
Quite apart from that he’s been a football friend and a famous face on a couple of Green & Gold Army world cup tours we’ve shared, and just a great person to chat to about music, politics and, of course, the world game.
It really is sad we’re losing him.
Thnaks, Simon, for all you’ve done for the game in this country.
And we’ll miss your death metal drumming too.
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