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Footy: The Doggies won the 2016 Premiership!! Soccer: From Ronaldo to Ronaldinho to Messi and seemingly back to another Ronaldo. Full circle!
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On 31 December 2022, appropriately the last day of the old year and a contrived end of an era for all of us, I…
The venue for this World Cup, Qatar, has had its bouquets and brickbats. It has also produced what no previous version has given us: a successful tournament for Asian and African nations.
As I was writing this I realised that epic sporting losses, which was my starting point, perhaps cannot compare to a club’s symbolism in…
In the intervening years through 2020 and 2021, the world turned topsy-turvy dealing with both the Covid-19 pandemic, and the social and logistical ramifications…
Which modern players will stick in football fans' collective memory?
Lionel Messi’s transfer to Paris Saint-Germain, forming a forward line with other double AA-listers Kylian Mbappe and Neymar, is a dream team scenario. I…
Some grand finals match-ups, like Essendon versus Carlton or West Coast versus Collingwood, have a certain gravitas about them. Others I could easily imagine…
We have finally reached the present moment, with Euro 2020 starting today. Previously, I have detailed the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Euros. We…
Bayern Munich’s crushing defeat to Chelsea didn’t bode well for Germany at Euro 2012. These players had now lost a final and two semi-finals…
I am continuing my look at this century's European Championship editions. Previously I reviewed Euro 2000Â and Euro 2004. The two ongoing stories to come…
Before this year's European Championships kick off, let's remember the 2004 tournament in Portugal. FC Porto to Portugal’s rescue The strange and exciting and…
As a lead-up to Euro 2021, I will recap the five Euros that I've seen since I started caring about football. "Seen" is a…
I’m going to be taken to the cleaners for this, but I don’t care. Have a read here if you think I only have…
The 2020 grand final was an excellent match, full of symbolism. Gary Ablett Jr’s final appearance gave the match a gravitas perhaps unrepeatable with…
I love Josh Dunkley. I should be too old for these favourite player types, but I haven’t been this into a player this much…
Bruce McAvaney cops a lot of flak these days, but he and Dennis Cometti are the last remnants of the older, superior commentators who…
It was mid-2017 - that strange jumbled year when no one really wanted to win the premiership - when Chris Scott decided to play…
I have a rule with sports books: if the print is big and double-spaced, it means there’s not much content and the author doesn’t…
I’m 38 and my vanity has convinced me I can recognise patterns over the years of watching footy. Like the ignored Cassandra of Troy,…
Sometimes being the best is more of a feeling. A ‘vibe’, as they say. Usually it relates to being top of the ladder for…
Before my time so I’m just writing what I read, but that Italy team sounds incredibly well-balanced. Italy’s best teams usually are.
Imo the greatest World Cup win of modern times. Last four matches were 10-3 against hardcore opponents.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
Indy, Pittsburgh and Baltimore were all very good teams, that’s true.
But Geelong would have cleaned up too if every season involved St Kilda, Gold Coast, North Melbourne and then a preliminary final at sleepy hollow every year.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
You know I don’t buy the whole “American sports have equality” argument that they always toss around. There are too many teams to do it otherwise, but for justice, conferences are BS. Half of New England’s titles were just due to having a virtual bye to a home conference final because their conference was always so weak.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
You know I don’t buy the whole “American sports have equality” argument that they always toss around. There are too many teams to do it otherwise, but for justice, conferences are bullshit. Half of New England’s titles were just due to having a virtual bye to a home conference final because their conference was always so weak.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
One other way of looking at it was that St Kilda were lucky the ball took that first break in the first place. If the first bounce was straight it would have gone out of bounds.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
There’s quite a few of those around the NFL 😁
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
L.A. Dodgers were tempting, their Brooklyn Dodgers backstory is very interesting too. IMO one of only two L.A. teams that the locals genuinely care about.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
Juve probably does have the back story, I just don’t know it well. All the scandals through the decades are definitely a story.
I thought about the Celtics. Possibly my ignorance is a factor again here.
Nottingham Forest is only one particular team in one particular era, I tended not to include those.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
Maybe, but it was really only that one team that lost all those Super Bowls. That’s not a decades-long interesting story.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
That’s funny about Zico and Daicos. 😁 Careca was good, I imagine with him they would have won.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
I’m a killjoy but to me it makes sense that Brazil failed in 82 (I’m too young to have actually seen it, never thought I’d write that line ever again). They were lacking in goalkeeper, defence and attack, so 3 out of 4 of the lines. Socrates is extremely interesting as a player and a man, a terrible shame he died.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
That does sound interesting, hence I needed outside help for the Rugby League stories, although I surely shouldn’t have forgotten New Zealand and South Africa, even I know my Rugby WC history.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
How desperate was the 2010 GF. Two clubs with such a history. Any bounce, tackle or decision may have decided it. Goosebumps.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
Would argue West Indies of the 80s were more interesting than we ever were, or Pakistan of the early 90s.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
Their sheer variety of lost Grand finals, for narrative no other AFL club comes close, and on pure results very few worldwide clubs do either. All Blacks would be a candidate.
Losing is more interesting than winning, if you do it well!
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
Personally can’t stand them so they weren’t a chance for #1 on any list written by me.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
Wearing black and white I suppose? 😁
I’m not so convinced by the Lakers personally.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
Technically you’re 100% correct, there are no Apple series about any of the ones on my list.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
Certainly can be argued.
To some extent I prefer teams that are a continuum. Man Utd have really only had 2 periods of success (one of them very long I’ll grant you) and to some extent were really just a one-man organisation who became irrelevant once he walked, like the Chicago Bulls back in the day.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
The opposite is also true unfortunately. Being drafted by a dud organisation can really mess up a guy’s career.
Here's how both grand finalists are defying AFL's equalisation measures
“as well many moments of the game’s difficult history of fan racism.”
The list is something of a work in progress. Possible ins are Springboks, Packers, All Blacks. Possible outs are Lakers, Liverpool, Man Utd, Real Madrid.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
In my humble opinion no way, they’re all business. The way they decimated Borussia Dortmund in the 2010s is more like an anti-story.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
Packers are a very good suggestion. Good history, interesting historical characters, the curious ownership structure, they’ve got it all.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?
Yeah, most top athletes have that drive and he simply didn’t. Other things are more important.
Not the same thing as wanting to spend your time drinking like Socrates, but I once upbraided Johan Cruyff for not going to the 1978 World Cup and the article writer said, Well his marriage is still intact, you can’t say the same about all these other athletes, which pretty much out me in my place.
Which worldwide club has the greatest story?