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Dugald Massey

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Member Since:: February 2011
Based In:: Melbourne
Favourite Sporting Team:: Melbourne Victory

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Maybe football fans don't hate football after all

23 Mar 2012

Talking with a Victory supporter the other day about the goings-on in the VPL, I could see the confusion in his eyes. He was thinking visible panty line. Fair enough. I don’t know where baby pigeons live. Why should an A-League supporter know where home-grown A-League players come from? Then again, I’m not chewing my [...]

Spin doctors only dig the FFA's hole deeper

19 Mar 2012

No one has ever questioned the work ethic of our football federations and rightly so. Given a choice between working smarter or harder, they always go the latter. You’d think FFA would have seen the positives in Clive Palmer singling it out for a bit of treatment, like certain governments have after years of copping [...]

Clive Palmer might be mad, but he's not stupid

2 Mar 2012

One could say a lot about Clive Palmer’s recent behaviour. But instead I’ll regale you with a tale. This one’s about the bloke changing a flat tyre out the front of the mental asylum, when a gust of wind from a passing truck blows the hubcap containing the wheel nuts into the long grass next [...]

Regurgitating Michael Hurley’s Christmas hammy

16 Jan 2012

I was nearly asleep when the news came on the radio about Michael Hurley’s hamstring, and it brought on a cold sweat and night terrors. It was devastating news to a Bombers supporter who was just this side of the abyss at the dark end of the twilight zone. Luckily the reptilian bit of the [...]

Funding blues, red herrings and greenhorns

13 Dec 2011

Bored with all the whinging down the club about footy holding football back, I headed bush at the weekend and ended up in a pub in Tom Wills’ territory where I was warned beforehand that mentioning football was akin to turning one’s glass upside down on the bar. I mentioned it anyway. I’m still here [...]

Arbib, Lowy know their mushrooms

9 Dec 2011

A week into the post-Smith Review era and the immune system is struggling. First came the guffaws – I mean, I can build you a cathedral in seven months if you want – and now I’ve had to take sick leave because I can’t stop chanting ‘what a waste of money’, which is not on [...]

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Maybe football fans don’t hate football after all

Yes, puberty is hell isn't it. Chin up DJ, it'll pass.

26 Mar 2012

Maybe football fans don’t hate football after all

That's the thing about the future, Rusty - we always get there but when we do we're old, infirm and infinitely wiser but you can't go back. You do realise I was lobbying for the A-League back in 1975? They shouted me down for being negative and eventually went with their ill-conceived B-league instead. There's probably a lesson in there for someone but I'm not sure if it's for me or you. No, you're right. I should have been much more negative then than I was and now we'd be where you reckon we're gonna be circa 2050 with attendances in their billions. My mistake. For my crimes I sentence you to a repetition of history. In 2050 you will be lecturing know-all what-about-meeee kids that it ain't really all about them and their unshakeable conviction that it is damages and divides the game's culture and gets them the opposite response to the one they want, and that if they keep it up you'll sentence them to doing what you're doing then in 2090. As for turning a blind eye to what's actually going now and spinning it up, that's probably a good thing or politicians wouldn't do it and they wouldn't respected in the community as they are. Historically Australians have admired a man determined to tell only one side of the story. They enjoy the outcomes too. That said, I do think we have to gild the lily from time to time to keep the vibe positive. I'm not a religious man so I'm saving up to get my head frozen. P.S. On a uglier note, my PA just called and apparently designer labels look to The Roar for inspiration and FKUC wants my permission to run off a ten million "It's called soccer: I know karate" T-shirts for the Asia-Pacific market. I'm not sure what to make of it.

23 Mar 2012

Maybe football fans don’t hate football after all

And that's my point, Fuss. You say the issue is getting the juniors and families to embrace HAL in the summer months when they've now got the state federations saying, no, these days it's a full-time 12-month commitment and you need to embrace playing football in the summer months. But you probably think I'm making that up because you remember what it was like and that memory hasn't changed so obviously nothing's changed here since Baggio missed except we scrapped the NSL for the A-League and qualified for the WC. Baan and Burger are figments of our imaginations. There's no need for you to to be feeling so rejected, Fuss. The grassroots are universally grateful to every HAL-supporter who's spilled bodily fluids for them. They know they have a moral obligation to square off one day, as do we. The bloodsucking parasites owe us big time. That should work.

23 Mar 2012

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