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.](https://ephemerasociety.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sport-footy-kids-bag-2013-Bede-e1409978856895.jpg)
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.](https://ephemerasociety.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sport-footy-Dees-kid-sticker-book-cover-2013-Bede-e1409979193274.jpg)
![Inside sticker book.](https://ephemerasociety.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sport-footy-Dees-kid-sticker-book-inside-pages-2013-Bede-e1409979465388.jpg)
![Sheet of transfer from the Melbourne Football Club, 2013. 21 x 10 cm. Part of the Yong Demons' bag contents.](https://ephemerasociety.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sport-footy-Dees-kid-transfers-2013-Bede-e1409979569196.jpg)
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