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Israel Folau now ready for AFL

2 Feb 2012

You don’t need to be a sports expert to know that Israel Folau is a talented rugby league player. He was born in Minto in Sydney’s south-west to Tongan parents, but the family moved to Brisbane while he was still a schoolboy. He grew up playing rugby league, and with his power and pace was [...]

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This sort of thing happens in all sports and papers have to be sold to meet cash flow. But maybe in some sense, the AFL is the victim of its own popularity in Melbourne - bad publicity is good publicity. The AFL want people like Daw to succeed so it can attest to the poularity of AFL and that migrants and refugees don't just like football. Every player from another country or another code gets a special mention in the media to show just how much AFL is growing and how popular it is around the world.

Who’s to blame for the Majak Daw beat-up?

9 Feb 2012

John Terry the home wrecker! Durakovic and Farina are available.

Capello ‘walks’ from England’s top job

9 Feb 2012

Kasey, I'm not making allegations about Cadel, just wondering when "the allegations will start to surface". However, with the number of these cases popping up about the winners, the sport is tarnished by it. And I don't belive this is the only sport in the world that drug cheating goes on in either - I believe most sportsman these days take performance enhancing drugs and a lot of it is covered up, for the commercial good of sport.

Contador’s stripped title is no justice for Schleck

9 Feb 2012

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