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Schwarzer in superb touch ahead of Socceroos match
Mark Schwarzer joins his Socceroos team-mates in Oman on a streak of form and with an eye already on next year’s World Cup.
The veteran goalkeeper will assemble with the Australian squad in Muscat for Saturday’s 2011 Asian Cup qualifier against Oman after starring for Fulham in a 1-1 draw with Wigan during weekend English Premier [...]
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![It’s about time someone told the AFL’s field umpires to concentrate on their jobs and stop trying to be coaches. With clubs employing as many as 17 coaches, fitness and development people on their staffs, the last thing the players need is to be lectured by another three on game day.
There are far too many [...] Bruce Walkley: Tell the umpires to shut up!](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/umpires-shut-up-shane-crawford-th.jpg)
![During Friday night’s West Coast-Essendon preseason hit-out, some time in between feats of Nic Naitanui brilliance, a curious umpiring decision managed to raise a few eyebrows.
Right before half time, a goal umpire awarded a crucial six points to Eagle Andrew Embley. The decision put the Eagles in front seconds away from the siren. However watching [...] Michael DiFabrizio: Video replays shouldn’t do the work of umpires](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/grand-final-afl-umpire-accuracy-th.jpg)
![Luca Badoer has become the laughing stock of Formula 1, through no fault of his own. Languishing at the bottom of the timesheets having replaced the injured Felipe Massa, what more were we to expect from a driver who has been out of racing for a decade?
The fault is with Ferrari and their haphazard decision [...] Adrian Musolino: Ferrari pays the price for their arrogance](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/ferrari-pays-price-th.jpg)
![Aren’t the Roosters the team that just keeps on giving? How pleased David Gallop must be that on Grand Final week he has yet another stench to clean up around Bondi Junction.
Did someone at the Roosters call someone at the Sharks and scream “FULL HOUSE!” down the phone?
And whole swag of assaults, DUI and the [...] Steve Kaless: Is the match fixed at the Roosters?](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/wrong-roosters-braith-anasta-th.jpg)
![It’s a hotly contested Top 5 this week as we take a look at sportspeople who have lost the plot during their careers to such an extent that they’ve landed themselves in jail. There are many unworthy candidates, so I’ve stuck to one per sport. I welcome your additions and suggestions.
1. Greg Bird (c)
Demonstrated [...] Andrew Jones: The Top 5 Jailbirds In Sport](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/top-5-jailbirds-greg-bird-th.jpg)
![AFL stars and fans are declaring war on Channel 7. And for good reason. The network has confirmed it won’t be showing Friday night AFL matches live, as it’s committed instead to Better Homes and Gardens.
The continuation of delayed coverage has the AFL world fuming and has already sparked discussion over the AFL’s [...] Adrian Musolino: Battlelines drawn over live Friday night footy](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/grant-birchall-hawthorn-th.jpg)
![This is a tough time of year for a league journalist. The season has sort of started, with the All Stars game and the various Shields up for grabs. But it also hasn’t.
You are left with column inches about bad boys promising to behave and how much they are looking forward to being role-models, fringe [...] Steve Kaless: It’s time for rugby league to have a transfer window](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/big-willie-soft-mason-th.jpg)
![I can’t decide whether Oman coach Claude Le Roy looks like Tom Petty or an aged Joni Mitchell, but there’s no doubting he’s one mightily pissed off dude. And for good reason. Not the fact his valiant Omanis fell victim to another one of Tim Cahill’s get-out-of-jail goals, but because Socceroos team manager Gary Moretti [...] Jesse Fink: Moretti’s truculence jeopardises Australia’s standing in Asia](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Moretti-truculence-jeopardises-Australia-standing-Asia.jpg)
![A few days ago Rod Macqueen told me he was considering offers from the Melbourne Rebels to be either the new Super Rugby franchise’s director of rugby or the team’s coach. Now he has taken on both jobs.
And in a typical Macqueen example of far-sightedness has taken on the most promising young coach in Australia, [...] Spiro Zavos: Rod Macqueen is the king of rugby coaches](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/rod-macqueen-th.jpg)
![It’s been a week of extremes for the A-League, from the invisibility of a week off to the thrilling finals matches in Wellington and Sydney.
The week just past has been a fascinating microcosm of how the promising developments for the wider Australian football community are sometimes the same factors that impede the growth of the [...] Adrian Musolino: The Catch-22s that continue to impede the A-League](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/five-reasons-a-league-th.jpg)
![For all the talk of sporting codes needing to ‘change their culture’ in the wake of numerous sex scandals, there is one easy change they can make, something blatantly obvious, one of the final remnants of the sexist sporting age. The cheerleaders, grid girls, whatever you want to call them have to go. [...] Adrian Musolino: Remove the cheerleaders from sport](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/remove-cheerleaders-th.jpg)
![A bright vision for the future or a nightmare wanting to be avoided at all costs? That is the question over the “Double Try” innovation which awaits rugby league at the inaugural NRL and Indigenous All-Stars match on the Gold Coast in February.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that someone has either been watching way too [...] Steve Kaless: A double try or just double trouble?](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/its-storm-eels-jeff-lima-th.jpg)



