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Collingwood’s jumper stance defies belief

4 May 2009

How much longer will the AFL let Collingwood get away with pale blue murder? The farcical sight of North Melbourne turning out in a sleeveless variation on the Argentine national soccer strip, with the blue stripes barely distinguishable from the white – for a “home” game, mark you – was the latest example of the [...]

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The MIGHTY Tigers are now only four games out of the eight...

Lowly Tigers shock Lions

21 Jun 2010

As I wrote at the end of the running commentary on the game last night, those who were suggesting in the lead-up that Jedinak was playing for his place were way off beam. He's Australia's best midfielder - check out how he owned the centre of the park in the last 20 minutes. And please get off Verbeek's back and look at the scoreboard. On results he's the best coach we've had, and has done the first part of his job effectively. As they say in golf, it's not how, it's how many. From his past results he will know how to handle the second part of the task, too. As for McDonald, I have sympathy for him, but someone who has scored as many goals as he has in club football, but can't score in internationals, for whatever reason, simply can't be picked for a World Cup. Full stop.

Socceroos have a way to go still – on and off the field

25 May 2010

Jedinak should be the first man picked after Schwarzer, Moore, Cahill and (subject to fitness) Kewell. Sat on the game beautifully and controlled the midfield in the second half. Old head for a hard road. Can't believe some of the rubbish I've seen written in the past couple of days saying he was playing for his place.

Socceroos v All Whites: Live analysis

24 May 2010

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