The Club
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The Club is a play by Australian playwright David Williamson, that follows the fortunes of a football club over the course of a season. First produced in 1977, appropriately in Melbourne. It has been on the NSW HSC syllabus (Powerplay) for many years.
In 1980, it was made into a film directed by Bruce Beresford, IMDb listing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080546/) starring John Howard. [1] (http://www.screensound.gov.au/ScreenSound/Screenso.nsf/0/256F2B3257AE0F18CA256BC1001F3FE8?OpenDocument) Template:Theat-stub
The Club is trademark of a popular automotive steering wheel lock produced by Sharon, Pennsylvania based Winner International. Inventor James E. Winner Jr. derived the idea for the device from his service in the Korean War, where he and his fellow soldiers were instructed to secure the steering wheels of their Jeeps with metal chains.
The Club was the name of a Trotskyist group in the United Kingdom. It operated inside the Labour Party and was the official section of the Fourth International from 1950. Led by Gerry Healy, it published the newspaper Socialist Outlook until this was banned by Labour, whereupon it began selling Tribune, and eventually began a new paper, The Newsletter. In 1959 it was reconstituted as the Socialist Labour League.
The Club is also a reality show that aired on Spike TV from 2004-2005.