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Born in Melbourne but now based in England, Davidde Corran is a freelance journalist, photographer and videographer who has contributed to AP, PA Sport, Football+, Fox Sports, The Blizzard and The New York Times among many others.
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“They need a midfielder, not another international class striker.” That was the refrain that dogged the first couple months of Robin van Persie's time…
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is a big fan of assessing his team through process-based rather than result-based evaluation. It doesn't make for sexy headlines,…
It’s here again. The football fan’s dream and the manager’s nightmare - the hectic end of year schedule in English football. It's two weeks…
Right across the English media websites the polls are up and they are all asking the same thing - is it time for Arsene…
As Manchester City faced defeat following a home loss to Ajax last month Roberto Mancini was bemoaning his team’s lack of defensive concentration. Then…
Few players are more loved by fans of the clubs they’ve represented than Tim Cahill. A combination of hard work, innate goal scoring ability…
The facts and figures have been pouring out since Roberto Di Matteo was sacked as Chelsea manager on Wednesday night Australian time. Eight managers…
Put fans at the centre of everything. That's my suggestion for how to fix Australian football and, more specifically, the A-League's ills. In professional…
"He seldom stands and watches. In fact, he always wants the ball, but he is a bit indisciplined (sic) and often goes where he…
“We don't need Tebow.” That was the now infamous tweet from New York Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie, as the AFC East outfit prepared to…
All pre-season they'd been saying Peyton Manning couldn't throw to the right. The question had been posed – how would the 36-year-old quarterback handle…
They were all there. Journalists from Australia's TV networks, newspapers and radio stations crowded around waiting to speak to James Magnussen. When the 21-year-old…
With Brendan Hamill joining Eli Babalj and quite possibly Curtis Good on the way out of Melbourne Heart, it's starting to look like a…
The Socceroos take on Denmark in Copenhagen as the Australians prepare for their World Cup qualifier against Oman next week. It's also an important…
For Holger Osieck, the pool of players Australian football has for him contains few surprises these days. Well into his second year as coach…
Yesterday's announcement that John Aloisi would coach Melbourne Heart next season came as little surprise. Ever since the news began filtering out of the…
Ange Postecoglou must have felt a wave of relief when Besart Berisha converted the Grand Final winning penalty against Perth Glory on Sunday night.…
Just like last year, as the conclusion to the 2011/12 season approaches, we're faced with an enticing football match to put the full stop…
In light of Hunter Sports Group handing back their license for the Newcastle Jets, I’ve been wondering when did it all go wrong for…
Yesterday's announcement that Hunter Sports Group was handing back its A-League licence to run the Newcastle Jets may have come as a shock. But…
First half chance of the game finally comes after 10 minutes as Brett Holman cuts in on the edge of the box but his shot is deflected and fairly easily caught by Al Habsi.
Socceroos vs Oman: Live scores, blog
A shocking crowd of only a few thousand despite the organisers offering free entry for all.
Incidentally Lucas Neill is running a competition to win his shirt from tonight’s game. Check out his twitter feed @LucasNeill to enter.
Socceroos vs Oman: Live scores, blog
The game is yet to have found its rhythm but already Matt McKay is getting forward and adding width to the Socceroos play as he overlaps Kewell. Unfortunately for him the first cross he put in was a stinker and flew well over. Hopefully nobody from Rangers were watching!
Socceroos vs Oman: Live scores, blog
And we’re off! In 90 minutes Australia could be through to the next stage of World Cup Qualifying and Oman on their way out.
Socceroos vs Oman: Live scores, blog
As the national anthems are played here is the Oman starting XI: Habsi, Al-Farsi, Al-Owaisi, Darwish, Al-Sheiba, Al, Al-Farsi, Al Hadhri, Harddan, Al-Sadi, Doorbeen
Socceroos vs Oman: Live scores, blog
Holger Osieck to Fox Sports on his starting XI for today, “I saw it in training, it worked.”
Socceroos vs Oman: Live scores, blog
According to Fox Sports Kewell will actually play behind Kennedy with Holman starting out wide on the left. Will these be fixed positions or roles that will interchange throughout the game?
Socceroos vs Oman: Live scores, blog
Welcome to the Roar’s live blog coverage of Oman v Australia. The Socceroos starting XI has been named and it’s very, very interesting: Schwarzer, Williams, Neill, Spiranovic, McKay, Valeri, Jedinak, Wilkshere, Kewell, Kennedy, Holman
So McKay will most likely start at left back with Kewell at left midfield and Holman playing in behind Kennedy. Brett Emerton is on the bench. Will knives already be sharpening if this experiment fails?
Socceroos vs Oman: Live scores, blog
Fussball and TomC I’d appreciate it if you could point out to me where I “draw a parallel between the possible causes of his tragedy and e-messages received by sports journalists”. If you were to read through the article again you should note that the book got me thinking about the state of football and that is what I was commenting on. A culture of hyperbole and abuse.
Anonymous or not, abusive messages effect each journalist in different ways. For some it does have an impact while others can just brush it off. Either way it’s inexcusable. Same goes for yelling abuse at players, coaches and referees in stadiums.
European football reflects on a life too short
M1tch, I rate the Jets highly and enjoy the Ryan brothers as real characters. If you haven’t seen it check out HBO’s documentary following the team through pre-season last year. Excellent viewing.
Previewing the 2011 NFL season
Not sure about Kansas this time around. Obviously anytime you have turnover in some key positions things can go either way. At the very least this season you should be able to further cement a foundation for future success.
Previewing the 2011 NFL season
FYI an Arabic website is reporting this deal as being confirmed – http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=ar&u=http://www.sportksa.net/main/index.php/p/9179-al-jazeera-arab-emirates-contract-with-the-australian-lucas-neill&ei=Pr1NTskvhuCIAq2s_acB&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBwQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.sportksa.net/main/index.php/p/9179-al-jazeera-arab-emirates-contract-with-the-australian-lucas-neill%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D7uE%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Divns
Lucas Neill doesn't owe Australian football anything
A couple other results for you:
Italy 2 – 1 Spain
Germany 3 – 2 Brazil
Japan 3 – 0 South Korea
Malta 2 – 1 Central African Republic
Thanks for your company tonight and keep an eye on The Roar for more analysis of tonight’s game shortly.
Socceroos vs Wales live scores, blog
Full time and a 2-1 to Australia. Socceroos can be quite happy with that. A strong performance and a decent result to boot.
Socceroos vs Wales live scores, blog
Goal 2-1. Wales’ Darcy Blake gets on the end of a corner kick from Gareth Bale that’s allowed to bounce in the area.
Meanwhile Zullo comes off for his FC Utrecht team-mate Adam Sarota. McKay to LB then.
Socceroos vs Wales live scores, blog
70th minute – Goalscorer Cahill comes off for James Troisi.
Socceroos vs Wales live scores, blog
So who’s rooting for a Scott McDonald goal now to wrap things up?
Socceroos vs Wales live scores, blog
So like David Carney, Zullo is susceptible to the occasional misstep in defence. The difference between the two however is Zullo has the speed to make up for it and the youth to learn from it.
Socceroos vs Wales live scores, blog
After a 62 minute long “test” Robert Earnshaw comes off to be replaced from the bench.
Socceroos vs Wales live scores, blog
McDonald might not have scored tonight but it’s hard to criticise his performance.
Socceroos vs Wales live scores, blog
Goal to Kruse! 2-0 Australia. Great build up play from the Socceroos as Cahill threads a ball through to McDonald who’s cross is deflected to Kruse for a simple tap in from a couple meters out.
Socceroos vs Wales live scores, blog
47th minute – A cross from the left hand side somehow falls to Kruse who forces a save before Valeri sends the rebound into the post. Desperately close to a second for Australia.
Socceroos vs Wales live scores, blog
Mile Jedinak gets his head onto a Luke WIlkshire corner but it goes fairly harmlessly wide. Thia has been a rather timid affair so far.
Socceroos vs Oman: Live scores, blog