“In short, I have a team, and that’s what’s always been missing. Because I was born in Doncaster.”

poor bugger never had a chance!!!

but – like for so many who never got into certain sports as youth whilst playing – - if they rely on the tele……they’ll miss the point.

Daniel King, the Allsvenskan rocks all over HAL in all departments, and even then despite the improvement in standard, I have no passing interest in it.

Unlike Ice-Hockey…

I doubt Sideshow even read the article and instead is just regurgitating what Peter fitzsimons tells him to say.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article5949802.ece

ends with So there we are, then. I am now a football fan.

Long live World Football AKA God’s Game.

P.S. Just to let you know i do love AFL too and league and Union……. it us allowed to like or appreciate other sports

Jeremy Clarkson begins his column in London’s Sunday Times: ”Over the years, I have argued that [soccer] is a stupid game in which 22 overpaid nancy boys with idiotic hair run around a field attempting to kick an inflated sheep’s pancreas into some netting while an audience of several thousand van drivers beat one another over the head with bottles and chairs.”

Long live Australian Football!

Personally, we should get through this whole emissions issue first and wait see whether international air travel get’s emissions foot print priced out of affordability…

Foster, like him or loath him, makes a valid point – the next generation of sports fans are going to be more ‘worldly’ in their outlook and interested in Football. Since most of you have only ever known one sport you naturally assume that means your favourite sport is going to die and you become very defensive about it. How about having the best of both worlds?

Their is a sheila involved Kate or Kat not sure…but pretty sure she is just for looks anyway. Apparently the shed their putting this bid together in is pretty low key but from that humble shed they run 7 or so national teams pretty well so I guess they are doing all right.
I think the slouvaki shop owner down in Melbourne Andy D is pretty busy so unfortunately his expertise in organising international events can’t be used

how come it’s being run by the FFA which apart from anything else is a minnow organisation reliant upon direct Govt cash injections into their bottom line for operational expenses.

Surely, surely this is sooooo big, that it should be organised beyond just the code of soccer……except FIFA wouldn’t deal then.

The reason that TV viewing figures are always an estimate is because they cannot measure ‘out of home’ viewing. If 100k people are watching on a few big screens then how do you measure that accurately? If a whole village in Africa is watching on one TV how do you measure? The viewing figures are probably underestimated not the other way round.

I have read your posts over ther past few days and would just like to say from a football lovers point of view that AFL is a great sport i love it, why do you feel threatened? Personally i think people will look back on the world cup and say that was awesome…. you included. AFL/NRL won’t die because people like you love it, great. After the world cup you will go back to barracking for your team, the tourist money will have made the economy richer and the world will keep turning.

Put your seat belt on brother cos it’s going to be a bumpy ride and trust me….. you will effing love it!

Your burning hatred of the AFL is going to kill the bid just like it drove Frank Lowy to be over zealous with his stadium demands.

Err like building new AFL grounds in Sydenee and Gold Coast and err “community” AFL facilities at all the old AFL grounds?

” I find it more and more distasteful that the soccer zealots within the Australian community use the debate as a means of denigrating the followers of rival sports”
Not as distasteful perhaps as AFL zealots denigrating the game of football (and those who play it) for being foreign? You know mate UnAustralian! We can summarise by using the following well coined phrase – Sheilas Wogs and Poofters

However, as this debate has raged on, I find it more and more distasteful that the soccer zealots within the Australian community use the debate as a means of denigrating the followers of rival sports. I love footy, but I live in a city where ice hockey and gridiron are the #1 sports. I would be loathe to tell my coworkers and friends that the sports they love are provincial and unsophisticated because they aren’t followed internationally. Instead, I respect their passions and, in turn, they have been wholly supportive as we’ve watched Geelong win a couple of premierships in recent years. It’s a pity that a fringe group of Australians lack the same degree of tolerance.

i don’t think a sport deserves an audience. others might, hence the question mark.

there’s nothing like personal taste, or sitcom quotes, to prove facts wrong.

btw – who gives a stuff about global audiences……..that’s broadcast rights and stadium advertising…….that’s all FIFA revenue,….

y’know, how they get 90% of all their revenue from running the FIFA WC in whatever nation is willing to let them wander in and take over.

In Perth, it would finally force our anti sport wowser Premier to build the long awaited stadia.

http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2009/11/03/127721_cattle.html

“….sales of the two “premium” burgers have “settled into a more typical pattern”, down from the highs of last month when The Weekly Times reported a 20 per cent increase in hamburger sales since the new products were launched.

McDonald’s Australia spokeswoman Amy Lawrence said the chain would not release any figures regarding consumption of the new products.

“Our Angus launch has been a success,” Ms Lawrence said.

“We had high expectations for the new burgers as they’d researched extremely well, however like any launch we expected a peak before sales settled into a more typical trading pattern, which they’re beginning to do…..”