GLHF
The A-league’s best player makes a quick exit, but are our young players going to Europe in wrong ways? New Zealander Marco Rojas has had a stellar season, scoring 15 goals in 27 appearances, and was highly instrumental in Melbourne Victory’s top 4 finish. He has scooped up nearly every major award: the Johnny Warren...
The beautiful game is run by dirty men
Soccer is the most played sport in the world, played and watched by billions of people. Soccer’s administrations claim to be representative of this enormous following, yet the leaders of soccer’s major bodies are men of questionable integrity. Corruption and controversy remains rife within their ranks, and the bureaucracy spends more time squabbling than making...
Is Soccer really the world game?
Racism continues to be a major problem in soccer in Australia. When the rest of our society has moved on, why does it still lag behind? Last year there was a major brawl in a suburban soccer match at Tullamarine involving a Sudanese team, the Sunshine Heights Western Tigers, and around 100 home supporters. Several...
Football Manager 2012 Review
Standing on the touchline, I feel almost helpless. Twenty minutes to go, 1-0 down. The lads have played so well this year, in fact, it’s been a three year process, but this next twenty minutes will define them, and it will decide whether or not I’m in a job next year. We’ve played 41 games...
SAME SAME, BUT DIFFERENT?
The first time someone asked me which football team I follow, I answered Paris Saint Germain. The puzzled face of my interlocutor reminded me that football has a different meaning on this side of the world. The game I have been playing in my original France shares nothing with the football practiced here, or does...
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