Columnist About
- Member Since:
- October 2012
- Based In:
- Australia
- Favourite Sporting Team:
- Sydney FC
- Favourite Sports:
- Football,
Latest Articles
Leave your A-League colours at the door for Australia
2 days agoIt was a message that reverberated around the room last Thursday night, as fans from around New South Wales met at FFA headquarters in Sydney. Active support for the Socceroos is undergoing a renaissance, one that is free from ties to A-League support bases and club loyalties. Anybody who has paid to watch the Socceroos [...]
The football continues at an historic Sydney derby
13 May 2013Yesterday afternoon, one of Australia’s fiercest sporting rivalries was played in suburban Sydney. Fans weren’t there to see the Western Sydney Wanderers play Sydney FC, not even to see the Rabbitohs play the Roosters. This is a rivalry that stretches further back, traversing continents and generations. The A-League season is over, but the football continues. [...]
Retirement of Ferguson signals end of an era in English football
9 May 2013For once, the rumours were true. Sir Alex Ferguson is retiring at Manchester United. If the ‘Twittersphere’ was abuzz with the rumours, it was positively in meltdown following the confirmation. Ferguson will remain a director at the club, but football in Manchester may never be the same. Here in Australia, Socceroo stalwarts will remember when [...]
South Melbourne saga shows the divisions in our football family
7 May 2013It’s a story that just won’t go away. South Melbourne want to buy, Melbourne Heart and the Central Coast aren’t interested in selling, and fans around the country remain divided over the limits of inclusion for certain football clubs in the A-League. Whether there is merit to South Melbourne joining the A-League is not really [...]
Echoes of the past in a season to remember
30 Apr 2013It’s been largely ignored or forgotten about, but this month marks ten years since the publication of the Crawford Report, which set football in this country in a fundamentally new direction. The fact that it has been so overlooked says a lot. Instead of fretting about the still yet to be completed aspects of the [...]
Anzac day footy blurs the boundaries between sport and war
24 Apr 2013As Anzac Day approaches, this week’s round of AFL and rugby league matches assume greater significance as they trade upon the heightened sense of occasion. What once would have been considered disrespectful has quickly become tradition. It’s hardly surprising. Sport and war, unfortunately, have a lasting and sometimes dangerous relationship. As George Orwell once wrote, [...]
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