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- Member Since:
- August 2008
- Based In:
- Adelaide
- Favourite Sporting Team:
- Socceroos
- Favourite Sports:
- Football,
Latest Articles
Will Frank Lowy give Guus Hiddink a phone call?
28 Mar 2013Ever since the AFC Asian Cup 2011, Australia has been playing poor football. Apart from a few good performances, such as victories over Germany and South Korea in a friendly, a battling one-all draw with Japan and our dominant victory against Saudi Arabia, Australia has played poorly and have been unable to develop any attacking [...]
A-League finals system something to be proud of
12 Mar 2013My article from last week, about replacing the World Cup with a World League, was mostly met with incredulous reaction and rightly so. This is tampering with something that was financially successful as well as removing a competition with a rich history and diminishing the drama that a cup competition would entail. I will admit [...]
Does international football need a World League?
6 Mar 2013All this debate about whether the A-League needs a finals series made me start thinking about the more important question of whether international football needs finals. Currently the “best” international team in the world is determined by a cup competition once every four years. Hence the countries are crowned champions are determined by the team [...]
Decide the ICC Test Championship by straight ladder
9 Jan 2013To become the ICC Test champs, a team has to top the ICC Test rankings. Sounds easy, right? If we have a look at the ICC rankings website, which ranks the best Test team in the world, we see the table that has the name of the teams, the matches they play and a rating [...]
Asian Champions League selection criteria is unfair
1 Dec 2012What is the purpose of a team participating in a football match? In my opinion the answer is simple: the goal is for the team to kick more goals than the opposition. That is what is football is about. When we determine who wins the league, it’s determined by whoever won the most matches (combined [...]
What’s the appeal of active support?
11 Feb 2011Whenever I go to Hindmarsh and watch Adelaide United play, I’m always appreciative at the effort that the active fans put in improving the atmosphere of the game by their chants and their singing. I can certainly understand why the A-league needs to cultivate the active supports as it certainly adds to the spectacle of [...]
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