{"id":29711,"date":"2020-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/?p=29711"},"modified":"2020-01-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T14:00:00","slug":"david-picken-turns-passion-into-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/living\/david-picken-turns-passion-into-print\/","title":{"rendered":"David Picken turns passion into print"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surf Coast Football Club (SCFC) stalwart and local resident David Picken has recently launched a book, The Time of My Football Life.<\/p>\n

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Mr Picken has been involved with SCFC in various capacities for about a decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He co-coached the clubs first female side and also served of the clubs board for a few years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Growing up in England ,Mr Picken was 16 when he saw World Cup fever grip the nation, with England both hosting and winning the 1966 edition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yet Mr Picken said he was regrettably unable to attend any of the games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI didn\u2019t actually go to any of the games, even though I was mad about football at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Forty years later, though, he was able to amend this, as his long service leave at Deakin University in Geelong corresponded with the 2006 World Cup in Germany.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This time fortune was on Mr Picken\u2019s side. He had friends in Germany who he could stay with, and in addition to England being in the World Cup, Australia had also managed to qualify for the tournament for the first time in 32 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The experience was worth the wait for Mr Picken, and he resolved to write his adventures down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Picken said he \u201creally just wrote it for family and friends,\u201d but later an opportunity came up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This came through Fair Play Publishing, a recently founded organisation focused on publishing books on sport, soccer in particular.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Picken said he decided to see if they were interested in his story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI wrote to them and said \u2018I\u2019ve written this book, if you\u2019re interested it sounds like the sort of thing you are talking about when you describe your project.\u2019 They responded very quickly saying they would like to publish it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Picken explains the book is as much about the cultural experience of attending the event as the event itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe book does have a football theme, it\u2019s about going to the World Cup. In some ways it\u2019s as much a travel book as it is a football book. It\u2019s that kind of anecdotal approach to making a journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said that in writing his story he was able to recall memories he had lost and see his story from a new perspective.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt was almost like you were playing music and improvising, it sort of comes from nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Football commentator Simon Hill was part of the book launch late last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The book is available at fairplaypublishing.com.au\/product-page\/the-time-of-my-football-life-or-how-i-spent-my-my-long-service-leave<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surf Coast Football Club (SCFC) stalwart and local resident David Picken has recently launched a book, The Time of My Football Life. Mr Picken has been involved with SCFC in various capacities for about a decade. He co-coached the clubs first female side and also served of the clubs board for a few years. Growing […]<\/p>\n

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