Has the marquee concept died a slow death in the A-League? Like Marcos Flores before him, ex-Melbourne Victory midfielder Carlos Hernandez is a Johnny Warren medal winner ...
Sport Name - Football 18/05/2012
Lyall Gorman has been appointed Executive Chairman of the New Sydney Club representing western Sydney. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/05/2012With Manchester City fans still celebrating their first championship win since 1968, West Ham and Blackpool fans are sitting nervously, waiting for Saturday night, when one of ...
Sport Name - Football 17/05/2012After securing its first Premier League title in 44 years, Manchester City is now ready to challenge the UEFA Champions League for the first time in their ...
Sport Name - Football 17/05/2012
While the word “pride” featured prominently in the discourse about the desired culture of the new Western Sydney franchise, for a while yesterday it seemed the FFA ...
Sport Name - Football 16/05/2012There is no such thing as a football code war. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/05/2012Sport; there’s nothing like it. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/05/2012
For Holger Osieck, the pool of players Australian football has for him contains few surprises these days. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/05/2012This is an open apology letter to all soccer fans in Australia and worldwide. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/05/2012Manchester City has won the Barclay’s English Premier League, but only just. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/05/2012One major talking point in football is cracking the code of playing home and away. ...
Sport Name - Football 13/05/2012The early hours of Monday morning will spell the end of the 2011/12 English Premier League, and with seven teams still having it all to play for, ...
Sport Name - Football 12/05/2012When you sit down on Sunday night (or Monday morning) to watch Manchester City attempt to win their first league title in 44 years, and before you ...
Sport Name - Football 11/05/2012The time has come for the A-League to embrace an existence as a pure football competition by doing away with its finals system, and adopting a ‘first ...
Sport Name - Football 11/05/2012A-League fans of west Sydney, as a Canberran I’m currently feeling a great deal of jealousy of you and all the excitement surrounding your shiny new unnamed ...
Sport Name - Football 11/05/2012With a long 2011/12 season drawing to an end, Brisbane Roar are already looking to stregthen their Championship squad ahead of next season. ...
Sport Name - Football 11/05/2012Football Federation Australia is often criticised, but one thing it has got right is the venue for next month’s World Cup qualifier against Japan. ...
Sport Name - Football 11/05/2012The 2011/2012 English Premier League season is building to one of its most exciting finales in recent memory. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/05/2012Yesterday’s announcement that John Aloisi would coach Melbourne Heart next season came as little surprise. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/05/2012With Graham Arnold confirming late yesterday afternoon his intentions to remain at the Central Coast Mariners and Melbourne Heart set to announce their replacement for John van’t ...
Sport Name - Football 08/05/2012With the FA Cup Final hours away, it’s a good time to reflect on Liverpool Football Club’s year. ...
Sport Name - Football 05/05/2012A rivalry will form when European giants Chelsea and Bayern Munich face off in the 2011/2012 UEFA Champions League Final. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/05/2012Frank Lowy has chutzpah, no worries there. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/05/2012Everton are in the midst of their customary strong end of season finish that has seen them unbeaten in six league games. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/05/2012The football world rightfully lauded Frank Lampard; the tireless trainer who continues to define the image of spirit and determination. ...
Sport Name - Football 02/05/2012
Everything has changed in the last few days, as the English Premier League’s top six teams look set for one of the best season finishes in living ...
Sport Name - Football 02/05/2012
An estimated 650 million television viewers worldwide watched the Man City-Man United blockbuster at Etihad Stadium yesterday, City’s home ground. ...
Sport Name - Football 02/05/2012
On the same day that Football Federation Australia announced that Nathan Tinkler’s Hunter Sports Group (HSG) would honour its contract to run the Newcastle Jets, saving the ...
Sport Name - Football 02/05/2012We all recognize that the A-League has a cash crisis. ...
Sport Name - Football 02/05/2012With the end of the season fast approaching here are a few of the things I’m thinking about. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/04/2012It was an outstanding afternoon of football on Saturday, that saw a resurgent Wigan’s style more European than than relegation, and a mercurial Luis hatrick. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/04/2012The beautiful game needs to embrace video technology. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/04/2012We all know who’s at the top of the Premier League. ...
Sport Name - Football 28/04/2012Rado Vidosic is well-prepared to take on the tough job of succeeding Ange Postecoglou as coach of the back-to-back grand final winning Brisbane Roar. ...
Sport Name - Football 27/04/2012Against all odds, we’re going to have a UEFA Champions League final not involving either Real Madrid or Barcelona. ...
Sport Name - Football 27/04/2012Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka and Sergio Ramos hit three of the worst penalties imaginable in Real Madrid’s shoot-out defeat to Bayern Munich yesterday. ...
Sport Name - Football 27/04/2012As FFA ramps up talks with Newcastle businessmen about taking over the Jets, a part ownership scheme based around a community supporters trust is gaining ground. ...
Sport Name - Football 27/04/2012
He put together the best team the A-League has seen, playing a style that delighted most across the country. ...
Sport Name - Football 26/04/2012Ange Postecoglou must have felt a wave of relief when Besart Berisha converted the Grand Final winning penalty against Perth Glory on Sunday night. ...
Sport Name - Football 26/04/2012It’s the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ship that could never be sunk. ...
Sport Name - Football 26/04/2012John Terry brought more misery and disgrace on his already battered reputation today as he was suspended during the Champions League semi-final. ...
Sport Name - Football 26/04/2012Frank Lowy is a clever man under pressure. ...
Sport Name - Football 26/04/2012Brisbane became the first ever back-to-back champions in the A-League with another late win in a grand final. ...
Sport Name - Football 25/04/2012It is an age-old debate.
Sport Name - Football 24/04/2012This time it was an on-field controversy, as a contentious penalty decision marred the nation’s football finale, only adding to the recent off-field dramas that have rocked ...
Sport Name - Football 24/04/2012Following Brisbane Roar’s 2-1 come-from-behind win over Perth Glory, the raging debate over diving reared its ugly head back in the spotlight. ...
Sport Name - Football 24/04/201211 years ago, in the 2000/2001 NSL grand final, a then-27 year old Mark Shield was on the sideline as the experienced Eddie Lennie took charge of ...
Sport Name - Football 24/04/2012Yesterday I settled in to watch the A-League grand final. ...
Sport Name - Football 24/04/2012In early March, Chelsea Football Club was looking like a shadow of its former self, with one win in their last seven matches. ...
Sport Name - Football 24/04/2012For 83 minutes, Brisbane’s composer, conductor and the man they call Mozart, Thomas Broich, glided around Suncorp Stadium trying to harmonise his band. ...
Sport Name - Football 23/04/2012While knockout finals are, as Graham Arnold puts it, “the Australian way,” are they really necessary for the A-League? Football is a winter sport in Australia, but the ...
Sport Name - Football 23/04/2012If rugby is the game they play in heaven and rugby league is the greatest game of all, they must have run out of superlatives to describe ...
Sport Name - Football 23/04/2012Brisbane Roar have again demonstrated their renowned fighting spirit to come back from a goal down and defeat Perth Glory 2-1 in the A-League grand final. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/04/2012How do you knock a 6-foot-3, 85kg African superman over with a strong gust of wind? Hand a whistle to someone standing in his vicinity. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/04/2012The key to Perth Glory stopping the Brisbane Roar in this afternoon’s grand final rests on their ability to set out their stall, keep things tight and ...
Sport Name - Football 22/04/2012
Unlike you, my fellow football fans and Roar readers, I happened to attend a sneak preview of tomorrow’s A-League Grand Final. ...
Sport Name - Football 21/04/2012As I openly pondered what it would take to put together a bid for ailing Glasgow Rangers with some friends the other day, I was stunned by ...
Sport Name - Football 21/04/2012During the week we had a peculiar scenario emerge, as far as the performance of Australian clubs in the Asian Champions League goes. ...
Sport Name - Football 20/04/2012After the best A-League season since the inaugural year, with great goals, high drama, actual marquee players, big crowds and all the on-field goodness a fan could ...
Sport Name - Football 20/04/2012What will Patrick Zwaanswijk and Adam Kwasnik do on A-League grand final day? Do they tune into the game? Or do they catch up on a spot ...
Sport Name - Football 20/04/2012The virtuoso displays of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in the last few seasons have catapulted them to a celebrated level in football, defined by phenomenal dexterity ...
Sport Name - Football 19/04/2012When Terry Connor was announced as the interim manager of Wolverhampton, I was, like many other pundits, left bemused. ...
Sport Name - Football 19/04/2012Just 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 at the end ...
Sport Name - Football 19/04/2012Chelsea host Barcelona in the second semi final of this season’s Champions League on Wednesday night (London time), and it is imperative the Blues get some sort ...
Sport Name - Football 18/04/2012The excitement ahead of this weekend’s Grand Final clash between Brisbane Roar and Perth Glory has been subdued but few previous clashes have offered as much intrigue ...
Sport Name - Football 18/04/2012
Glory in the AFC Asian Champion’s League is now no more than a pipe dream for Brisbane Roar, having lost 1-2 to Ulsan Hyundai in Queensland overnight. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/04/2012
While attention this week is on Sunday’s grand final in Brisbane, hovering in the background are a raft of technical decisions and announcements about managers that need ...
Sport Name - Football 17/04/2012Newcastle businessman Andrew Poole has emerged as a possible replacement for Nathan Tinkler as the owner of the beleaguered Jets A-League club. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/04/2012Perth Glory will be dreaming of bygone days as they fly to Brisbane to face the Roar in next week’s A-League grand final. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/04/2012
“It is more important to get into the round of 16 for the ACL than win a grand final,” said Central Coast coach Graham Arnold after watching ...
Sport Name - Football 16/04/2012As I lay awake just before 2 A. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/04/2012Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have cheapened the value of the stupefying ball-warping goal and improbable individual skills that I used to sporadically see in the world ...
Sport Name - Football 14/04/2012This afternoon Ian Ferguson and his purple army will be landing on a beach near Gosford, New South Wales. ...
Sport Name - Football 14/04/2012Australian football fans have the tough choice of helping to decide our greatest ever footballer. ...
Sport Name - Football 13/04/2012The A-League is not the only football in this country. ...
Sport Name - Football 13/04/2012It seems the A-League keeps getting its on-season and off-season confused. ...
Sport Name - Football 13/04/2012The A-League is enduring its most difficult period since its establishment seven seasons ago. ...
Sport Name - Football 13/04/2012In light of the recent news surrounding the Newcastle Jets’ demise, the football community is calling for the heads of both Clive Palmer and Nathan Tinkler. ...
Sport Name - Football 13/04/2012On the back of a disastrous Olympic qualification campaign where the Olyroos failed to score in six matches, the FFA must raise both elite and grassroots standards ...
Sport Name - Football 12/04/2012Followers of the 2012 AFC Champions League will be able to tell you that Brisbane Roar’s campaign hasn’t got off to the start they would have liked. ...
Sport Name - Football 12/04/2012It appears that Western Sydney is growing too fast for its own good, with yet another sporting team announced for the burgeoning, sports-mad region. ...
Sport Name - Football 12/04/2012Australian sport has long been touted as among the best in the world in terms of competition, variety and other factors. ...
Sport Name - Football 12/04/2012In light of Hunter Sports Group handing back their license for the Newcastle Jets, I’ve been wondering when did it all go wrong for the A-League and ...
Sport Name - Football 12/04/2012Another week, another A-League club facing extinction. ...
Sport Name - Football 11/04/2012One of the bonuses of having an A-League team in Western Sydney is the creation of a second city derby. ...
Sport Name - Football 11/04/2012Yesterday’s announcement that Hunter Sports Group was handing back its A-League licence to run the Newcastle Jets may have come as a shock. ...
Sport Name - Football 11/04/2012
As far as timing goes, this was impeccable. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/04/2012If the A-League is to grow in a sustainable way the FFA must get serious about club management issues. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/04/2012Football Federation Australia has killed off the North Queensland Fury and let Gold Coast United die. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/04/2012BREAKING: Nathan Tinkler’s Hunter Sports Group has announced a shock decision to hand back the Newcastle Jets A-League licence to Football Federation Australia, effective immediately. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/04/2012The news of Hunter Sports Group handing in their A-League licence as owners of the Newcastle Jets has launched some of the most fervent Twitter discussion since ...
Sport Name - Football 10/04/2012Football Federation Australia (FFA) has released a press announcement in response to the announcement made by Hunter Sports Group to hand back the licence to the Newcastle ...
Sport Name - Football 10/04/2012For the new Western Sydney football club to become the success that the FFA hope it will be, the governing body have to get one thing right, ...
Sport Name - Football 10/04/2012How many Spurs’ fans are having a great 2012? Hands up, anybody? Raise your voice loudly and proudly. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/04/2012“When it pains it roars” is a snappy line from influential 90s scenesters Jawbreaker, and I bet it is a sentiment Graham Arnold can get on board ...
Sport Name - Football 09/04/2012With Jim Magilton making the decision to return to Northern Ireland earlier this week, it’s time for Melbourne Victory to think long, hard and most importantly smart, ...
Sport Name - Football 07/04/2012Chelsea FC progressed to the Champions League final four by holding off a fighting and unrelenting Benfica outfit in an unconvincing the second quarter-final leg at Stamford ...
Sport Name - Football 07/04/2012Stiliyan Petrov will forever find the bitter irony of circumstance in the fact that Fabrice Muamba’s cardiac arrest on March 17th probably saved his life. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/04/2012This Thursday marked the conclusion to a series of events oddly reminiscent of the old NSL. ...
Sport Name - Football 06/04/2012I’m not sure why, but at 4:26am on Thursday, unable to sleep, I was hit with a strong opinion – the new Western Sydney A-League team will ...
Sport Name - Football 06/04/2012It has been interesting to see the media reaction to the new Western Sydney A-League club, as they look for the sensationalist angle about a code war ...
Sport Name - Football 05/04/2012Barcelona has established their place in the UEFA Champions League final four by delivering a technically impressive and strong 90 minutes of football. ...
Sport Name - Football 05/04/2012The big Australian sports story of the past 24 hours has been the decision by the FFA to rush a new team into the A-League for the ...
Sport Name - Football 05/04/2012“The day the west was won? Not today,” read Football Federation Australia CEO Ben Buckley’s statement announcing that Western Sydney will have a new club in the ...
Sport Name - Football 05/04/2012Now Western Sydney has an A-League club, they also need a team. ...
Sport Name - Football 05/04/2012Western Sydney is most definitely a place where A-League football needs to be. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/04/2012The FFA’s announcement today that there will be a new Western Sydney team in the A-League next season was big on pomp and ceremony but short on ...
Sport Name - Football 04/04/2012As far as major announcements go, FFA chief executive Ben Buckley did not give much away. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/04/2012As the season winds down, we love to celebrate the stars that make the A-League galaxy burn so bright. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/04/2012So this is how Football Federation Australia believes the west will be won. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/04/2012It was an era that started with a bang, faded in the middle and then saw a slight renaissance at the end. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/04/2012Of the four teams outside the A-League’s top-two heading into the finals, the most likely to go on a run to the grand final was undoubtedly Perth ...
Sport Name - Football 03/04/2012Shane Smeltz could be the only man standing between Brisbane Roar and the A-League title. ...
Sport Name - Football 02/04/2012Brisbane Roar’s 2-0 victory in the first leg of the major semi-final over the Central Coast Mariners was a good result for the Roar and their fans. ...
Sport Name - Football 02/04/2012Finals football is one of the best things about the A-League. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/03/2012As if the drama of A-League finals weren’t enough, Sydney FC must now play their do-or-die clash against the Wellington Phoenix without goalkeeper Liam Reddy, who was ...
Sport Name - Football 29/03/2012After 135 games, the A-League is approaching the finish line, with the finals kicking off this weekend. ...
Sport Name - Football 29/03/2012The A-League has benefitted significantly this season from the efforts of two locally raised and developed football managers, and I say that with a great sense of ...
Sport Name - Football 29/03/2012The topsy-turvy J1 season may be only three weeks old, but already it is clear that the pecking order has changed. ...
Sport Name - Football 29/03/2012While it is finals time in the Hyundai A-League, already questions are being asked about next season: Will Gold Coast be back next season? Or will there ...
Sport Name - Football 29/03/2012The A-League finals have arrived. ...
Sport Name - Football 28/03/2012Normally at this time of the season, I put together my A-League team of the season. ...
Sport Name - Football 27/03/2012At the time of writing, the A-League regular season had one more game – Gold Coast United versus Brisbane Roar – to go before the season ended ...
Sport Name - Football 26/03/2012Three ACL games, three excellent results for A-League teams. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/03/2012Harry Kewell’s debut season in the A-League will come to an early close this weekend. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/03/2012It’s been a roller coaster year for the A-League and after 24 weeks of quality football we are just a week away from the end of the ...
Sport Name - Football 22/03/2012
Rarely in the seven year history of our domestic competition has the battle for the championship been so open, with all seven teams harbouring at least a ...
Sport Name - Football 20/03/2012Brett Holman’s transfer to the UK to join Aston Villa was greeted as a great move by many, but by some it was a sign that our ...
Sport Name - Football 16/03/2012To say that it’s been a difficult season for Melbourne Victory is almost an understatement. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/03/2012Late Monday morning, Manchester United took over from crosstown rivals Manchester City at the top of the Barclay’s Premier League table for the first time in over ...
Sport Name - Football 14/03/2012Brett, we should have done this a long time ago. ...
Sport Name - Football 14/03/2012Over the last two years, the FFA have had an increasing number of critics. ...
Sport Name - Football 14/03/2012
As the A-League season moves towards the end of the regular competition rounds, those in power will no doubt be planning for next season. ...
Sport Name - Football 14/03/2012
The A-League home and away season is about to come to an exciting close, with the final two rounds to determine the winner of the minor premiership ...
Sport Name - Football 14/03/2012With two weeks to go of the A-League, it’s almost still anyone’s guess as to who will take out the 2012 title. ...
Sport Name - Football 12/03/2012Everton Football Club, a proud and historic mainstay of English Football’s top division is on the verge of chalking up a very impressive milestone. ...
Sport Name - Football 12/03/2012
How hot is too hot to play an A-League game? We have all heard the cliches about action on the pitch hotting up but it is lucky ...
Sport Name - Football 12/03/2012Last night, after the completion of the draw for the final round of 2014 FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers, the Socceroos captain Lucas Neill expressed his confidence ...
Sport Name - Football 10/03/2012You just knew it was going to happen – the Socceroos will face old sparring partners Japan, as well as a tricky away tie to Iraq, in ...
Sport Name - Football 09/03/2012It’s been a hectic period for Football Federation Australia, the A-League, and notably, besieged outfit Gold Coast United. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/03/2012Lionel Messi became the first player to score five goals in a single Champions League match against German side Leverkusen. ...
Sport Name - Football 08/03/2012Over the course of his World Cup qualifying campaign, Socceroos coach Holger Osieck has tinkered with different formations to find the best fit for the Australian style ...
Sport Name - Football 08/03/2012S.
Sport Name - Football 08/03/2012Carlos Tevez found himself on the scoresheet this afternoon during the Manchester Senior Cup, leading them to a 3-1 win in what was their last group match ...
Sport Name - Football 08/03/2012
So the three Australian sides managed a draw, a win and a loss between them as the 2012 Asian Champions League kicked off and in the end ...
Sport Name - Football 08/03/2012The likely demise of Gold Coast United at season’s end has cast a dark shadow over the A-League, but whilst the competition will eventually move on, many ...
Sport Name - Football 07/03/2012Dreams of Asian Champions League success received a wake-up call for the Brisbane Roar after they were downed 2-0 by FC Tokyo in their opener at a ...
Sport Name - Football 07/03/2012
Clive Palmer’s Football Australia has existed for a week and we still don’t know the true motivations behind this new body. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/03/2012
In possibly the biggest anti-climax in football since Fernando Torres’ disastrous transfer to Chelsea, Brisbane Roar kicked off their Asian Champions League campaign in the worst way ...
Sport Name - Football 07/03/2012While last week’s Socceroos clash was essentially a dead rubber, with little riding on the result, there was much to be gained from the performance and, for ...
Sport Name - Football 06/03/2012Believe it or not after all the drama on Wednesday February 29th 2012, but a game of football took place in Melbourne – the Socceroos. ...
Sport Name - Football 05/03/2012It is not unprecedented for the wealthy owner of a club to walk away from the game and refuse to play by the rules in place at ...
Sport Name - Football 05/03/2012Brisbane Roar will underestimate FC Tokyo ahead of their ACL clash on Tuesday night at their peril. ...
Sport Name - Football 05/03/2012As the sweetly struck ball left the foot of Brisbane Roar’s Bahraini defender Mohamed Adnan, most would have considered it a lost cause for Melbourne Heart. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/03/2012The A-League was supposed to bring stability to Australia’s domestic football scene. ...
Sport Name - Football 02/03/2012Another day, another further stride into the mire for Australian football, thanks to rogue Gold Coast United owner Clive Palmer. ...
Sport Name - Football 02/03/2012The 2012 AFC Champions League kicks off next week with three Australian teams in action: Brisbane Roar, Central Coast Mariners, and Adelaide United. ...
Sport Name - Football 02/03/2012Billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer has gone off the deep end, launching a scathing attack on the FFA this afternoon as he plans to launch his own ...
Sport Name - Football 01/03/2012It was always going to come to this. ...
Sport Name - Football 01/03/2012The English Premier League is seriously heating up now. ...
Sport Name - Football 01/03/2012A superb second half resurgence by some of the A-League’s leading names saw Australia storm home to a 4-2 victory, destroying Saudi Arabia’s hopes of progressing to ...
Sport Name - Football 01/03/2012With Gold Coast United sensationally stripped of their A-League licence by the FFA, speculation is mounting over their remaining fixtures and possibly even the results of the ...
Sport Name - Football 01/03/2012As a lifelong AFL fan, I am interested to know the long term expectations of Australia’s football community. ...
Sport Name - Football 01/03/2012Four minutes from the Socceroos was all it took. ...
Sport Name - Football 01/03/2012Just as Andy Harper predicted, it seems that Clive Palmer got what he wanted all along. ...
Sport Name - Football 29/02/2012Breaking: The FFA have announced that Clive Palmer’s Gold Coast United FC team will have their A-League licence revoked – sensationally axing the club for the remainder ...
Sport Name - Football 29/02/2012Football Federation Australia has today sensationally axed Gold Coast United from the A-League after a tenuous two weeks of conflict between the football body and United owner ...
Sport Name - Football 29/02/2012In light of Liverpool’s Carling Cup triumph over championship big guns Cardiff City, their first trophy since that legendary night in Istanbul, the question over whether the ...
Sport Name - Football 29/02/2012Yesterday, Frank Lowy, inspired by fellow octogenarians, the recent Oscar winner for best supporting actor Christopher Plummer and nominee Max von Sydow, gave it his best shot ...
Sport Name - Football 29/02/2012FFA chairman Frank Lowy has hit back at fellow billionaire Clive Palmer, telling the controversial Gold Coast United owner to respect football or get out of the ...
Sport Name - Football 28/02/2012While much of the attention has rightly been on the tension surrounding the FFA and A-League club owners, for a brief couple of hours tomorrow night in ...
Sport Name - Football 28/02/2012Yesterday I made the trek from the Blue Mountains to the Sydney Football Stadium for yet another Sydney FC home game. ...
Sport Name - Football 27/02/2012Clive Palmer believes in “freedom of speech” but has no qualms doing business in a repressive regime like China. ...
Sport Name - Football 27/02/2012The precarious future of embattled A-League outfit Gold Coast United has made waves around the Australian football sphere. ...
Sport Name - Football 24/02/2012Miron Bleiberg’s sacking from Gold Coast United has robbed the A-League of one of its true characters. ...
Sport Name - Football 24/02/2012Battlelines are being drawn as A-League club owners unite in taking up arms against the game’s governing body, Football Federation Australia (FFA). ...
Sport Name - Football 24/02/2012In a week in which a Socceroos squad was named and the Olyroos failed to qualify for the Olympic Games for the first time in 28 years, ...
Sport Name - Football 24/02/2012With metaphorical glove in hand and a brisk back-handed slap across the face of Football Federation Australia, Clive Palmer has continued his warring words against Ben Buckley ...
Sport Name - Football 24/02/2012There, I’ve said it.
Sport Name - Football 23/02/2012Han Berger had a plan.
Sport Name - Football 23/02/2012With the North Queensland Fury’s demise at the business end of last season, and the tattered glamour expansion entity that is Gold Coast apparently following the same ...
Sport Name - Football 22/02/2012There was a lot of anger, a lot of frustration and a lot of non-sense but in Clive Palmer’s 16 minutes on SBS TV’s The World Game ...
Sport Name - Football 22/02/2012Fabio Capello’s nightmare with the English national football team did at last come to an end, although many fans including myself wished it had taken place after ...
Sport Name - Football 22/02/2012With the implosion of Gold Coast United and prized youngster James Brown heading to the Newcastle Jets next season, a carve up of the United squad is ...
Sport Name - Football 22/02/2012When Liverpool splashed the majority of the Torres cash on the young and largely untried Andy Carroll on the last day of the 2011 January transfer window ...
Sport Name - Football 22/02/2012The best way to look at Holger Osieck’s selection of the Socceroos squad to face Saudi Arabia is to walk a mile in the expensive shoes of ...
Sport Name - Football 22/02/2012Gold Coast United owner Clive Palmer took to the box last night (SBS’s The World Game) in his escalating public war of words against Football Federation Australia. ...
Sport Name - Football 21/02/2012There has been a rush to condemn Clive Palmer after his anti-football comments on the weekend, but stop for a second and you might just hear a ...
Sport Name - Football 21/02/2012A 17-year-old was handed the captain’s armband by the club owner, the coach was temporarily stood down by the owner for making a mockery of the decision ...
Sport Name - Football 21/02/2012Owners need to own and let the coaches coach. ...
Sport Name - Football 20/02/2012Gold Coast United has reached the point of no return, with owner Clive Palmer engaging in a public war of words with the governing body, Football Federation ...
Sport Name - Football 20/02/2012“The A-League is a joke. ...
Sport Name - Football 20/02/2012Just what is going on at Gold Coast United in the past week? After appointing a 17-year old captain, Clive Palmer derided football as a “hopeless game” ...
Sport Name - Football 19/02/2012
The A-League history books will record that on February 17, 2012, Melbourne Heart defeated what was ostensibly the Gold Coast United Youth Team at AAMI Park by ...
Sport Name - Football 18/02/2012Fabio Capello has joined a long list of unsuccessful England managers after he resigned from the position just four months before the Euro championships begin. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/02/2012Their father Angelo and older brother Dimitri are among the list of former Sydney Olympic FC players, thus it comes as no surprise that the younger members ...
Sport Name - Football 18/02/2012With a comprehensive 4-0 victory over Arsenal on Wednesday, AC Milan turned the tables on English opposition, and demonstrated the extent of their revival project under Massimiliano ...
Sport Name - Football 17/02/2012With only six weeks remaining before the conclusion of the home and away A-League season, the race for a place in the coveted top-six is beginning to ...
Sport Name - Football 17/02/2012The appointment of 17 year-old debutant Mitch Cooper as captain of Gold Coast United at tonight’s A-League fixture put coach Miron Bleiberg in some hot water with ...
Sport Name - Football 17/02/2012Here I was thinking the A-League needs an injection of humour and along comes the comedy crew from Skilled Park. ...
Sport Name - Football 17/02/2012The sporting domain has a tendency to produce the absurd. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/02/2012Round 19 of the Hyundai A-League gave spectators a taste of the future, with several clubs giving youngsters a go. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/02/2012It is unequivocally good news for Australian football. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/02/2012With six rounds to go to the 2012 A-League final series, fans of eight clubs are wondering where their team will sit come the final whistle of ...
Sport Name - Football 15/02/2012It’s the white elephant in the room Football Federation Australia (FFA) needs to address: Gold Coast United and its unsustainable supporter base. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/02/2012To use studs or not to use studs? That is the question facing football players currently from the Premier League to the A-League. ...
Sport Name - Football 14/02/2012Football in England has become a game of contradictions. ...
Sport Name - Football 14/02/2012December had just begun and Sunderland were truly down in the dumps. ...
Sport Name - Football 14/02/2012It’s still a few weeks away, but hands up who else is licking their lips at the thought of watching youngsters Tomas Rogic and Mustafa Amini in ...
Sport Name - Football 14/02/2012“We are extremely disappointed Luis Súarez did not shake hands with Patrice Evra before yesterday’s game,” read a statement from Liverpool FC in the wake of an ...
Sport Name - Football 13/02/2012Don’t you just love it when your modest expectations are exceeded. ...
Sport Name - Football 11/02/2012Perth Glory are flying at the moment and one of the reasons is the form of their former Manchester United, Celtic and Leeds United player, Liam Miller. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/02/2012Arryverdici Fabio read one of the snappier headlines in the English press yesterday, as the London tabloids enthusastically endorsed one of their own in Harry Redknapp to ...
Sport Name - Football 10/02/2012It was intense, forceful and at times an affair devoid of its pretty nature. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/02/2012No midweek A-League this week? So accustomed have we become to Wednesday night football in the last two seasons, it just didn’t seem right having no live ...
Sport Name - Football 10/02/2012John O’Neill has been overlooked as Manchester City chief executive, marginally missing out on what would be one of world sports top jobs. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/02/2012English football circles are spinning tonight with the news that Fabio Capello has quit as manager of the English national team. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/02/2012As a Manchester United supporter, I’m often accused of being a bandwagon rider. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/02/2012It is approaching crunch time for many clubs around Europe, but in one of the lower echelons, a true fairytale could be in the making. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/02/2012Where some criticised the Melbourne A-League derby as lacking excitement, one good thing that emerged was Melbourne Heart youngster Craig Goodwin. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/02/2012Melbourne Victory’s position as the A-League’s biggest club was highlighted over the last week as interim coach Jim Magilton continued to make headlines. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/02/2012Whether it be through tactical ineptitude or players not following instructions, Melbourne Victory play their football with not enough emphasis on the most dangerous position on the ...
Sport Name - Football 07/02/2012With Viteslav Lavicka gone at the end of the season, it’s time for Sydney FC to ready itself for a player clean out. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/02/2012Jim Magilton, in his post-match press conference for Saturday’s scoreless Melbourne Derby, defiantly argued he’d found a couple of positives he can build on, including a first ...
Sport Name - Football 07/02/2012A 2-0 defeat to Uzbekistan in Tashket overnight means the Olyroos will have to qualify for the 2012 Olympics the hard way if Aurelio Vidmar’s men are ...
Sport Name - Football 06/02/2012Jim Magilton may be only three weeks into his short-term appointment as coach of Melbourne Victory, but it’s time for both the Victory and Jim to make ...
Sport Name - Football 04/02/2012Within the space of two seasons, there is already a magic feeling surrounding the Melbourne derby that permeates the city. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/02/2012When Anthony Di Pietro took over as chairman of Melbourne Victory, he was given a lamp. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/02/2012Of all the half-brained ideas Sepp Blatter has been behind, the plan by FIFA to delay the upcoming Socceroos World Cup Qualifier in Melbourne to a 9. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/02/2012The Wellington Phoenix travel to Hindmarsh Stadium tonight to take on Adelaide United as they look to extend their three game winning streak. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/02/2012Once again, the West Asian powers in the Gulf that be have flexed their muscle and cowardly FIFA have buckled to their demands. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/02/2012Sydney FC’s longest-standing coach Viteslav Lavicka will leave the club at the end of the current A-League season to return home, a positive move for the Sky ...
Sport Name - Football 03/02/2012The recent tragic events at a Egyptian soccer match, where more than 70 people died, highlights why it’s time for FIFA to take a stand against violence, ...
Sport Name - Football 03/02/2012The shocking scenes of violence at Port Said Stadium in Egypt this week were a dreadful reminder of the dark side of the beautiful game, but they ...
Sport Name - Football 03/02/2012After commencing the season in underwhelming fashion – uncharacteristically struggling on home soil, dwindling near the foot of the table – the Phoenix have hit a striking ...
Sport Name - Football 03/02/2012“Turnout to prove case,” read the headline from The Mercury newspaper this week, referring to Tasmania hosting the A-League regional round between Melbourne Victory and Gold Coast ...
Sport Name - Football 02/02/2012It came to light this afternoon that Melbourne Heart’s manager John van’t Schip will be leaving the expansion franchise at the end of the year. ...
Sport Name - Football 01/02/2012News that is unlikely to hearten Melbourne Heart fans, and at an unfortunate time too – head coach and Dutch legend John van’t Schip is leaving the ...
Sport Name - Football 01/02/2012Having moved across to the other side of the world to try my luck in British football things took an unexpected turn and I entered the hurly ...
Sport Name - Football 01/02/2012For the first time since Australia’s move into Asia, we have three teams representing us on the continental stage: Brisbane Roar, Central Coast Mariners and Adelaide United With ...
Sport Name - Football 30/01/2012When I was just a wee lad and footballs were made of leather and got as heavy as a sack of potatoes in the rain, way back ...
Sport Name - Football 30/01/2012Six weeks ago, Perth Glory owner Tony Sage emotionally declared he would quit the club at season’s end after he and his family were abused by members ...
Sport Name - Football 30/01/2012How do we solve a problem like Wellington Phoenix? The Kiwi side are in second place and inexorably finals-bound but seem beset by issues off the pitch. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/01/2012On the 9th of March, the draw for the fourth round of Asian qualifying for the FIFA World Cup in Brazil will take place. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/01/2012Roar expert Mike Tuckerman wrote in his article for the FFA: “the build up to the game (between Brisbane Roar and FC Tokyo) is intriguing and as ...
Sport Name - Football 27/01/2012Central Coast are en route to a historic campaign, with the Gosford-based outfit traditionally flying under the radar since the A-League’s inception six and a half years ...
Sport Name - Football 27/01/2012While much of the focus was on former Sydney FC defender Mark Milligan, there was some symmetry to the fact it was ex-Victory defender Sebastian Ryall who ...
Sport Name - Football 27/01/2012Back in October last year, The Australian’s chief sportswriter, the curmudgeonly Patrick Smith, tackled his onset of post-AFL season blues by opining on the then hoopla surrounding ...
Sport Name - Football 25/01/2012Melbourne Victory have signed former Socceroo defender Mark Milligan to the club on a loan until the end of the A-League season. ...
Sport Name - Football 24/01/2012Mark Milligan has joined a host of Socceroo teammates in the past 12 months to to return to Australia to play in the A-League and resurrect his ...
Sport Name - Football 24/01/2012One thing that becomes patently clear as we enter the final third of the regular A-League season is that the teams with the most settled and united ...
Sport Name - Football 24/01/2012The past couple of weeks in footballing circles have served as a reminder of the divisions and issues faced by our game. ...
Sport Name - Football 23/01/2012According to my belief system, there is no god but football gods. ...
Sport Name - Football 21/01/2012In relative terms, I am new to the game of football. ...
Sport Name - Football 20/01/2012So, after a few days in which divisive spot fires popped up all over the Australian football scene, it was nice of Sydney FC and Perth Glory ...
Sport Name - Football 19/01/2012On the eve of their season defining home games against the two heavyweight teams of the A-League, Melbourne Heart has become a team in search of some ...
Sport Name - Football 18/01/2012On a weekend in which high-profile stoushes, both on and off the field, hogged the headlines, it was the battle to control a football game between Graham ...
Sport Name - Football 17/01/2012
The microphone that was attached to Miron Bleiberg’s lapel on Sunday represented more than just a television experiment. ...
Sport Name - Football 17/01/2012For those who watched the A-League match between Melbourne Victory and Adelaide United on Friday night, something was different about the game. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/01/2012SBS Chief Football analyst Craig Foster was labelled a racist yesterday, in an astonishing Twitter tirade from Fox Sports pundit, former Socceroo, and ex-Blackburn Rovers player Robbie ...
Sport Name - Football 16/01/2012If Sir Alex Ferguson had been named as coach of Melbourne Victory, would it be considered a backwards step by those who take umbrage with A-League clubs ...
Sport Name - Football 16/01/2012There could have been no better initiation to the A-League for Melbourne Victory’s new manager Jim Magilton than last night’s rousing match against bitter rivals Adelaide United ...
Sport Name - Football 14/01/2012The announcement last Friday of former Northern Ireland international Jim Magilton as Melbourne Victory’s new coach may have the club’s board hoping for a revival of their ...
Sport Name - Football 12/01/2012The 2011-12 edition of the A-League has brought with it a very refreshing feel, as it has to football in Australia in general. ...
Sport Name - Football 11/01/2012As the Central Coast Mariners marched forward, eight points clear and 12 games undefeated, Sydney FC were left to lament another poor start on Sunday, leading to ...
Sport Name - Football 10/01/2012English football is usually dramatic, and in the FA Cup that drama takes on a sudden-death quality. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/01/2012Just when the A-League is starting to fulfill its raison d’etre of becoming a showcase for young Australian football talent, just when the A-League season is reaching ...
Sport Name - Football 10/01/2012Melbourne Victory have pulled a cat out of the bag and surprised the Australian football fraternity by appointing Jim Magilton. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/01/2012“No matter how much due diligence or expert advice you get, there is always risk in appointments,” said Melbourne Victory chairman Anthony di Pietro as he gave ...
Sport Name - Football 09/01/2012Mehmet Durakovic entered managerial limbo-land in late November 2011. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/01/2012Mehmet Durakovic’s six-month reign at Melbourne Victory is over, with the former Socceroo axed this morning. ...
Sport Name - Football 06/01/2012Big Wednesday was a great success for the A-League and the FFA. ...
Sport Name - Football 06/01/2012It’s slightly ironic that Matt Simon signed off on his Central Coast Mariners career with the kind of goal many critics thought him incapable of. ...
Sport Name - Football 06/01/2012The Melbourne derby is far and away the best thing to happen to the A-League over the last two seasons. ...
Sport Name - Football 05/01/2012I’m getting ready to watch about eight hours of A-League football today, and I doubt I’m the only sports fan gearing up to do so. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/01/2012Scott McDonald has found his scoring touch in the English Championship, helping Middlesborough into second place on the ladder, but does he deserve another shot at the ...
Sport Name - Football 04/01/2012The New Year celebrations must of been a frustrating time for fans of Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC as they ended 2011 half way through a season ...
Sport Name - Football 04/01/2012Last week, Ange Postecoglou sat down and put on his favourite hip-hop record, “3 Feet High and Rising” by De La Soul. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/01/2012Mariners forward Matt Simon is off to the K-League, a transfer that is a positive outcome for all concerned. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/01/2012With four points from his first two games in charge, John Kosmina has already been labelled the saviour of Adelaide United. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/01/2012Sporting codes tread a very fine line in satisfying the often-conflicting demands of television with making sure their schedule is attendance-friendly. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/01/2012While Melbourne Heart have gone on an incredible run of seven wins from eight games that has seen them move up into second spot, one of the ...
Sport Name - Football 02/01/2012As families around Britain sit down to a traditional Christmas meal, the footballers who sit at England’s top table are training. ...
Sport Name - Football 29/12/2011The outcry and sense of victimisation that has permeated the Liverpool Football Club in the wake of Luis Suarez’s racism conviction is disgraceful, and all associated with ...
Sport Name - Football 24/12/2011Perth Glory owner and chairman Tony Sage has delivered a message to Glory fans ahead of Christmas, reaffirming his commitment to the club and expressing his regret ...
Sport Name - Football 23/12/2011Bathroom firework displays, luxury car roof jumping competitions and curry house curfews … oh, and a few goals. ...
Sport Name - Football 23/12/2011Rini Coolen has the right to feel hard done by after being sacked by Adelaide United this week because, after signing with the Reds for the start ...
Sport Name - Football 23/12/2011Sydney FC fans are either eternally loyal or completely daft for their continuing support of arguably the most frustrating team in the A-League. ...
Sport Name - Football 23/12/2011Adelaide United’s implosion climaxed on the weekend with the return of experienced gaffer John Kosmina to the coaching ranks. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/12/2011Like getting back with an old-girlfriend, John Kosmina’s return to the helm of Adelaide United this week has thrown up a whole raft of past-issues. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/12/2011How do you pinpoint western Sydney? From the west of the central business district to beyond the Blue Mountains and everything in between, it seems. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/12/2011Over the past few weeks, much has been made of the Brisbane Roar’s so called “fall from grace” along with a lot of description of how everyone ...
Sport Name - Football 22/12/2011Old Melbourne town is buzzing. ...
Sport Name - Football 21/12/2011The season might be less than halfway through and the Newcastle Jets sit only two points outside the top six, but Gary van Egmond should begin preparing ...
Sport Name - Football 21/12/2011When I heard that Adelaide United coach Rini Coolen had been replaced by former manager John Kosmina, I was stunned. ...
Sport Name - Football 21/12/2011It was a year in which Australia’s youth teams, the Joeys and Young Socceroos, disappointed at their respective world cups, so it’s with deep regret that not ...
Sport Name - Football 20/12/2011‘Tis with a sweet feeling of vindication that these words are so eloquently put to page. ...
Sport Name - Football 20/12/2011At his recent re-election as Football Federation Australia chairman, Frank Lowy was keen to stress that A-League clubs must stand on their own two feet and not ...
Sport Name - Football 20/12/2011So John Kosmina, a man fond of dust ups and discussing the mentally unstable, is back in the coaching game. ...
Sport Name - Football 19/12/2011Most would have heard by now that the Adelaide Reds have stood down the under-siege Rini Coolen. ...
Sport Name - Football 19/12/2011If Erik Paartalu had headed his A-League Grand Final effort just half-a-metre further to the right, we might now be lauding Graham Arnold as one of the ...
Sport Name - Football 19/12/2011While many of the A-League top-drawing marquee players have suffered an indifferent start to the season, some of Australia’s ‘generation next’ have been flying. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/12/2011This week, Harry Redknapp was asked a question which would have sent shivers down the spine of all Tottenham Hotspur fans: He was asked if he would ...
Sport Name - Football 18/12/2011Perth Glory coach Ian Ferguson may be forced to start Travis Dodd in Saturday night’s A-league home game against Melbourne Heart after midfielder Andrezinho tore his hamstring ...
Sport Name - Football 17/12/2011Manchester City received an email from AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani last week, offering to take Carlos Tévez on loan for six months and then sign him ...
Sport Name - Football 17/12/2011Fifteen-year old Teeboy Kamara is on track to shatter the record of being the youngest ever A-League player making his first-team debut, ahead of the bottom-of-the-table clash ...
Sport Name - Football 16/12/2011Football can certainly be an unpredictable game, with unforeseen results paving the way for the underdog to prevail. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/12/2011The Newcastle Jets squad is too bare and devoid of quality to challenge for the A-League title this season. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/12/2011Will Melbourne Victory fans boo their team off the pitch if they fail to beat Wellington Phoenix this weekend? No doubt there’d be plenty of takers should ...
Sport Name - Football 16/12/2011When the A-League draw for 2011-12 became available, one of the new developments was the introduction of a ‘regional round’ for the league. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/12/2011On the World Game on Monday night, Les, Fossie and Ned said they could hardly wait for Saturday night to see the Roar versus Mariners match. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/12/2011So after 36 games unbeaten Brisbane Roar’s players have promptly reacquainted themselves with losing. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/12/2011In all the press coverage last week about the Melbourne Victory versus Adelaide United match, one significant factor seemed to be overlooked: the Victory had one of ...
Sport Name - Football 14/12/2011Ahead of the season, in dissecting the Central Coast Mariners’ chances for this season, I wrote about how the development of Bernie Ibini-Isei was critical to the ...
Sport Name - Football 13/12/2011Bored 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 ...
Sport Name - Football 13/12/2011The news that Football+ magazine has “ceased publication” hammers another nail into the coffin of print media coverage. ...
Sport Name - Football 12/12/2011I can hear the hounds baying all throughout the A-League at the prospect of bringing Brisbane back into the pack after a tear-away fourteen months. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/12/2011According to the Brazilian footballer Zico, July 5, 1982 was “the day football died. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/12/2011It was a classic case of ‘two steps forward, one step back’ at FFA headquarters yesterday, with two separate announcements from College St summing up the misdirection ...
Sport Name - Football 09/12/2011It’s a shame Bill Murray didn’t conduct the AFC Champions League draw since it ended up feeling like “Groundhog Day. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/12/2011Coach-bashing is in vogue at the moment. ...
Sport Name - Football 08/12/2011He’s unorthodox, outspoken and a colourful wordsmith with the media. ...
Sport Name - Football 08/12/2011One of the most common throwaway lines in Australian football is that Football Federation Australia needs to implement promotion-relegation between the A-League and a second tier competition ...
Sport Name - Football 08/12/2011So the final edition of the Beckham down under experience has come and gone and with it the now annual comparisons between the A-League and MLS. ...
Sport Name - Football 08/12/2011With any luck last night’s friendly between Melbourne Victory and LA Galaxy will be the last Australian football fans see of the MLS side for a while. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/12/2011Etihad Stadium witnessed one of the more surreal football matches staged in Australia last night. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/12/2011I usually attack football’s penchant for dismissing coaches before they even get a chance to show their worth. ...
Sport Name - Football 05/12/2011They have a star-studded forward line and one of the most functional defences in the A-League, but Mehmet Durakovic’s Melbourne Victory is sorely missing the connection in ...
Sport Name - Football 05/12/2011For the ninth round of the A-League season Melbourne Victory travelled north to face the Newcastle Jets, and like so often this season produced a mix of ...
Sport Name - Football 05/12/2011The A-League’s last two seasons have been dominated by the Brisbane Roar. ...
Sport Name - Football 05/12/2011When Nikolai Torpor-Stanley slid in on Archie Thompson on Saturday night, he guaranteed Victory coach Mehmet Durakovic had a ready-made excuse after another costly defeat for the ...
Sport Name - Football 05/12/2011A largely unknown member of Brisbane Roar’s unbeaten side has had an amazing football journey to get to the A-League. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/12/2011Socceroos’ World Cup qualifiers being removed from the federal government’s anti-siphoning list and the FFA Cup being delayed are two of the findings from the Smith Report. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/12/2011Just when you thought it was safe. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/12/2011Another scintillating week has passed in the A-League, with Australian football etching its way into the Australian sporting record books. ...
Sport Name - Football 02/12/2011Only three matches are left in the Olyroos’ qualification campaign for the 2012 London Olympics, and only three points separate the Group B leaders Uzbekistan and fourth-placed ...
Sport Name - Football 02/12/2011The J.
Sport Name - Football 02/12/2011It was a tragic week for Welsh football and football in general with the sad passing of Gary Speed. ...
Sport Name - Football 01/12/2011Enough is enough.
Sport Name - Football 01/12/2011It’s been a busy few days at College St as Football Federation Australia re-elected its Chairman Frank Lowy (unopposed, naturally) for a third consecutive term and also ...
Sport Name - Football 01/12/2011Melbourne Victory secured three points for the second time this season after a dramatic 3-2 win over Gold Coast United. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/11/2011When A-League referee Gerard Parsons blew his whistle, pointed to the penalty spot and gifted the Central Coast Mariners the decisive goal in their match against Melbourne ...
Sport Name - Football 30/11/2011The million dollar question for Sydney’s football market is how more Sydneysiders can take to the A-League competition. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/11/2011All sports need fans though the gates, and the A-League is no different. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/11/2011Terry Antonis is staying with Sydney FC until the end of the 2012-2013 season, a decision that’s good news for both the A-League and the promising footballer. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/11/2011Central Coast Mariners have today confirmed that talks are underway with potential new investors in the A-League club, as the club struggles with “short-term cash flow difficulties”. ...
Sport Name - Football 29/11/2011Finding the right balance in his central midfield and a workable front three are the big challenges for Aurelio Vidmar, as he seeks to find a formula ...
Sport Name - Football 29/11/2011One of the real legends of the English Premier League and of British football has passed away. ...
Sport Name - Football 29/11/2011The Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi debate continues to be one of the hottest topics in world sport. ...
Sport Name - Football 28/11/2011This week belonged to Brisbane, but if you’re over the Roar don’t worry – there’s plenty more A-League to talk about. ...
Sport Name - Football 28/11/2011Over the course of two hours on Sunday evening, one man will have a better idea on his destiny. ...
Sport Name - Football 26/11/2011In a season of strong numbers for the A-League, the most important is arguably the television ratings increase; given the current television deal expires in mid-2013. ...
Sport Name - Football 25/11/2011“This club is not in crisis,” claimed Melbourne Victory chief executive Richard Wilson on Tuesday after the announcement that technical director Francis Awaritefe had parted ways with ...
Sport Name - Football 24/11/2011Perth Glory stunned the Melbourne Victory on Sunday night, staging a remarkable comeback to draw 2-2 after going 2-0 down with 10 men on the park. ...
Sport Name - Football 23/11/2011Traditionally, the last weekend of November brings the curtain down on TV ratings season. ...
Sport Name - Football 23/11/2011Has Rini Coolen kicked a black cat or smashed a few mirrors in the past six months, because Adelaide United seems to be lurching from crisis to ...
Sport Name - Football 23/11/2011Melbourne Victory has ‘concluded’ their tenure with their Director of Football, Francis Awaritefe, after just four months into the gig. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/11/2011Season seven of the A-League is churning along nicely but there is one issue that is gnawing away deeply in its back, like the mozzie bite you ...
Sport Name - Football 22/11/2011The Champions League returns next week with more group stage action, as Matchday Five slowly approaches after the latest round of international fixtures. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/11/2011In some kind of weird parallel universe, where he is not the head of FIFA, Sepp Blater could almost be likeable. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/11/2011In amongst the flow of the Brisbane Roar and stuttering of the Melbourne Victory, perhaps the A-League’s most consistent side goes about its business in a quiet, ...
Sport Name - Football 22/11/2011It’s funny how often a draw seems like a win or a loss. ...
Sport Name - Football 21/11/2011Brisbane Roar may just be the greatest team to grace the A-League. ...
Sport Name - Football 19/11/2011Seven seasons of the A-League and I have heard it called many things by its critics – It’s plastic. ...
Sport Name - Football 19/11/2011Melbourne Victory entertains Perth Glory at Etihad Stadium, a fixture deemed vitally important for both clubs. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/11/2011The chorus of disquiet after Australia’s narrow win in Bangkok was as predictable as a scything Mile Jedinak tackle. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/11/2011Sepp Blatter is the biggest clown in world sport. ...
Sport Name - Football 17/11/2011There have been times this season when you could be forgiven for thinking that the Melbourne Heart was indeed the biggest club in the A-League, rather than ...
Sport Name - Football 17/11/2011Newcastle’s outstanding early season success could not be more disparate from their never-ending off-field melodrama. ...
Sport Name - Football 17/11/2011After a dismal display against Oman on Saturday, the Socceroos backed it up with another lacklustre performance in Thailand on Tuesday night. ...
Sport Name - Football 17/11/2011Today is the sixth anniversary of that most memorable night when Australia defeated Uruguay on penalties in the final FIFA World Cup qualifier of 2005 and secured ...
Sport Name - Football 17/11/2011A little over 12 months ago, the Perth Glory had just begun a downward spiral through the 2010/2011 A-League season that would ultimately lead to the sacking ...
Sport Name - Football 17/11/2011As the sun sets on another international week, attention around the globe has begun to turn back to domestic matters. ...
Sport Name - Football 17/11/2011Far from cohesive, the Socceroos were fortunate to come away from Bangkok last night with the three points and passage to the next phase of World Cup ...
Sport Name - Football 16/11/2011Holger Osieck, the Socceroos manager, looked up into the steamy Bangkok night sky deep in thought. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/11/2011When Adelaide United began the season, it was full of excitement and there was hope for a soccer-mad town that over the last few years have experienced ...
Sport Name - Football 16/11/2011Central Coast hosted the Melbourne Victory at Gosford on Saturday night in front of a solid crowd of over 10,000. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/11/2011Adelaide got just their second win of the season after defeating Gold Coast United 2-1 in their ‘away’ game at Hindmarsh on Friday night. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/11/2011One by one the Socceroos lined up to call their 1-0 defeat at the hands of Oman on Friday the loss they needed. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/11/2011The supporters of Wigan, Blackburn or West Bromwich Albion understand the searing pangs of incompetency that they face at least 10 times a year, when their sides ...
Sport Name - Football 15/11/2011It’s on again at Newcastle United. ...
Sport Name - Football 14/11/2011Born in Melbourne in 1954, Clive Palmer remembers his dad George talking about how he had made silent movies in the 1920s and he was quite a ...
Sport Name - Football 14/11/2011The Melbourne Heart celebrated their first win of the season on Saturday night, after comfortably beating the Newcastle Jets. ...
Sport Name - Football 14/11/2011When Amad Al-Hosni burst through a gaping hole against the Socceroos in Muscat, he reminded us Holger Osieck’s team is far from the finished product. ...
Sport Name - Football 14/11/2011In my footballing mind Ange Postecoglou had already achieved legend status after I watched him play and then manage South Melbourne Hellas in the NSL. ...
Sport Name - Football 12/11/2011Dave Brown was known as “the Don Bradman of Rugby League”, and the A-League needs their own stories to etch the competition into history books. ...
Sport Name - Football 11/11/2011Wayne Rooney is a superb all round footballer. ...
Sport Name - Football 11/11/2011Football, like most things in the world, works in cycles. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/11/2011Tired and bleary-eyed, Socceroos striker Josh Kennedy and wife Jacinta Hamilton wander through Tokyo’s Narita airport looking confused and more than a little out of place. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/11/2011November 6, 2011 marked the one-year anniversary for many Brisbane Roar fans of the moment that truly cemented the belief that their club had undergone a fundamental ...
Sport Name - Football 09/11/2011A record breaking 87,508 fans walked through the turnstiles to support their team during round 3 of the 2011/12 A-League season but where precisely does the league ...
Sport Name - Football 09/11/2011We are only five rounds into the current A-League season and fans are already exasperated with the inconsistent and incompetent displays from the whistleblowers. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/11/2011Since Holger Osiek took charge of the national side some 14 months ago, he has began to regenerate the national side with younger players – and at ...
Sport Name - Football 09/11/2011Brisbane and Sydney play at massive football stadiums, and they have only filled each once – both being a grand final. ...
Sport Name - Football 08/11/2011Wow, what a game! In front of a 25,000-plus highly partisan, raucous Melbourne crowd at Etihad Stadium, the Melbourne Victory and Brisbane Roar played out a 2-2 ...
Sport Name - Football 08/11/2011With this week’s two World Cup qualifiers away to Oman and Thailand likely to garner safe passage to the next phase, it’s perhaps a good time to ...
Sport Name - Football 08/11/2011What a privilege it was calling the Victory vs Roar game last Saturday night. ...
Sport Name - Football 08/11/2011About this time of year I become a sporting outsider in my beloved home town of Adelaide. ...
Sport Name - Football 08/11/2011The Newcastle Jets have this afternoon announced the signing of former captain Michael Bridges, who will return to the club for the remainder of the A-League season. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/11/2011A new breed of young Australian players are starting to break into the established mix of the Socceroos squad. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/11/2011Five games in and the new A-League table is taking shape. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/11/2011It isn’t the money or the players, or even the marquee players or the system; it’s the coach, stupid. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/11/2011As I write this, the fifth round of the A-League is yet to be completed, but what we know for certain is the two teams managed by ...
Sport Name - Football 05/11/2011It is the 22nd of October.
Sport Name - Football 04/11/2011I hope the theatregoers cross the Bourke Street bridge to Docklands on Saturday night. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/11/2011After a cavernous yet poor commencement to the season, Melbourne Victory finally scored its first goal of the new campaign, taking just over five hours of play ...
Sport Name - Football 04/11/2011Spring in Melbourne means one thing to most sports fans: horse racing. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/11/2011This week’s announcement that Jan Versleijen would not be continuing in his duel role as head of the AIS football program and Australian youth teams coach when ...
Sport Name - Football 04/11/2011Wednesday’s announcement of the Australian squad that will take on Oman and Thailand in next week’s World Cup Qualifiers saw the continuation of Holger Osieck’s gradual evolution ...
Sport Name - Football 03/11/2011The European Champions League has become a cash cow for UEFA and has taken all the fun out of discovering Europe’s best team. ...
Sport Name - Football 02/11/2011As far as the performances go, neither the Central Coast Mariners nor the Melbourne Victory will have been totally satisfied by their respective wins on the weekend. ...
Sport Name - Football 01/11/2011Here are a few things I learned from the A-League game between Melbourne Victory and Wellington Phoenix over the weekend. ...
Sport Name - Football 01/11/2011As a former defender himself, Adelaide United coach Rini Coolen has no doubt seen some bad defending in his time. ...
Sport Name - Football 31/10/2011Put quite simply, Ange Postecoglou’s Brisbane Roar is hands down the greatest domestic footballing side Australia has ever seen. ...
Sport Name - Football 31/10/2011There are hundreds of Australian-born footballers now plying their trade in leagues all over the world. ...
Sport Name - Football 29/10/2011Mehmet Durakovic was a worried man. ...
Sport Name - Football 29/10/2011“It’s the worst result in my history, ever. ...
Sport Name - Football 28/10/2011With a cavernous closed season for Australia’s elite domestic competition – a seven-month break, amid a later start to this year’s A-League campaign – the local scene ...
Sport Name - Football 28/10/2011
Football Federation Australia has every right to be very pleased with the start to the 2011/12 A-League season. ...
Sport Name - Football 28/10/2011
Fox sports commentator Andy Harper is right to label Thomas Broich the best foreign import the A-League has ever seen. ...
Sport Name - Football 28/10/2011Who are the Mariners biggest threats towards their race for the 2011/12 title? After their first three games, I think the best answer would be themselves. ...
Sport Name - Football 27/10/2011
Hyperbole and Australian football seem to go hand-in-hand together these days. ...
Sport Name - Football 27/10/2011When it was anticipated that former Leeds, Liverpool and Galatasaray star Harry Kewell might be returning to Australia, the media went into mania. ...
Sport Name - Football 26/10/2011The fourth Melbourne derby took place on Saturday in front of a 39,303 crowd. ...
Sport Name - Football 26/10/2011
With three wins from his opening three World Cup qualifiers, the ball is well and truly in Holger Osieck’s court as the Socceroos eye safe passage to ...
Sport Name - Football 25/10/2011You know a team is in poor form when they’re outplayed by Melbourne Heart. ...
Sport Name - Football 24/10/2011The Newcastle Jets have snared a crucial 1-0 win over bitter rivals Central Coast Mariners in a hard-fought derby at Ausgrid Stadium this afternoon, with All Whites ...
Sport Name - Football 23/10/2011With Silva the magician, Nani the acrobat, fire breathing Fergie, mindless strongman Rooney and Mario the Clown all set to feature prominently, you’d be forgiven for thinking ...
Sport Name - Football 23/10/2011On the train back from Etihad Stadium last night, my mind wandered to a day a mere two months ago. ...
Sport Name - Football 23/10/2011Upon seeing the events that transpired mid-week between Suwon Bluewings and Al Sadd in the Asian Champions League, I had to ask myself, is sportsmanship dead? For ...
Sport Name - Football 22/10/2011The Old Roman Empire had the Appian Way. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/10/2011They don’t call it the world game for nothing. ...
Sport Name - Football 21/10/2011The return home of Gary van Egmond to coach the Newcastle Jets is a solid move that will win favour with the Jets faithful. ...
Sport Name - Football 20/10/2011The excitement is beginning to amass for the glamour friendly between Melbourne Victory and David Beckham’s LA Galaxy on December 6, in what is set to be ...
Sport Name - Football 20/10/2011The possibility of Europe’s biggest clubs leaving local leagues and playing in a new European league on a weekly basis – which I’m sure they’d label ‘super’ ...
Sport Name - Football 20/10/2011While most of the pre-season attention has been on a pair of big name returning Socceroos, in Harry Kewell and Brett Emerton, less heralded in the mainstream ...
Sport Name - Football 19/10/2011Saturday’s match between the Sky Blues and the Roar was initially a close fought contest. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/10/2011This was a taut, tense and heated affair between the two clubs with arguably the most vitriolic rivalry in the A-League; the Reds and the Navy Blues. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/10/2011Adelaide United hosted Melbourne Victory on Friday night in a match that always stirs the passions of the fans. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/10/2011The week ahead will be full of statements that teams “need time to jell” and “it’s too early to make judgements. ...
Sport Name - Football 17/10/2011Something’s not right when 10 arrests at the Adelaide United versus Melbourne Victory match, described by South Australian police as a “pleasing result” given the crowd number ...
Sport Name - Football 17/10/2011
“It was good, wasn’t it?” Last weekend, A-League fans looked at it each other, lit a cigarette and basked contentedly in a hazy post-coital like glow as ...
Sport Name - Football 15/10/2011Mark Schwarzer has been the proverbial Rock Of Gibraltar for the Australian national team for much of the last decade, but a recent back injury has proved ...
Sport Name - Football 14/10/2011Sydney FC should be congratulated for “drawing a line in the sand” over diving. ...
Sport Name - Football 14/10/2011Yesterday, Wednesday the 12th of October, passed without much notice for most of those within Australian football circles except at one little club. ...
Sport Name - Football 13/10/2011The Socceroos, baring a meltdown, should qualify in the next match for the next round of the qualifying process. ...
Sport Name - Football 13/10/2011After another accomplished display on the left flank by Michael Zullo and Matt McKay for the Socceroos last night against Oman, will David Carney be able to ...
Sport Name - Football 12/10/2011Last night, Australia beat Oman in the World Cup Qualifier, with the encounter significant as it was the first competitive match for Australia in a World Cup ...
Sport Name - Football 12/10/2011While Holger Osieck’s Socceroos all but booked a spot in the next phase of World Cup qualifiers after last night’s comfortable 3-0 win over Oman at Homebush, ...
Sport Name - Football 12/10/2011We all know of the many hardships football has had to face in this country and we will not dwell on the past in this post as ...
Sport Name - Football 12/10/2011Perth Glory midfielder Travis Dodd has slammed his former club Adelaide United for having an ‘AFL mentality’ when it comes to age. ...
Sport Name - Football 11/10/2011Saturday night’s pulsating 0-0 draw at Etihad Stadium between Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC has left A-League fans with plenty to ponder in the leadup to the ...
Sport Name - Football 11/10/2011Never before has there been such divide in the world of football. ...
Sport Name - Football 11/10/2011The much anticipated season seven of the A-League is finally underway and like many of you, I’m elated that we’re back, and in style. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/10/2011“There’s no such thing as an exciting 0-0 draw” someone once told me, but they clearly possessed little understanding of the nuances of football. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/10/2011Last night’s City Derby between Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC was a fitting spectacle for the A-League debuts of Harry Kewell and Brett Emerton. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/10/2011Today marks the start of the hugely anticipated A-League season. ...
Sport Name - Football 08/10/2011The perennial bridesmaids to the capital clubs brides, the Mariners have been Grand Final losers to Newcastle, Sydney and now Brisbane. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/10/2011Storm clouds obscure the normally searing sunshine of Skilled Park. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/10/2011It has been a long wait, but it is finally here. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/10/2011On Wednesday, in part one of this two part look at the A-League players to watch at each club this season, I picked out a mix of ...
Sport Name - Football 07/10/2011Given all the excitement surrounding Melbourne Victory’s clash with Sydney FC on Saturday night, it’s easy to forget four other A-League games take place this weekend. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/10/2011Last season, Ange Postecoglou redefined Australian football. ...
Sport Name - Football 06/10/20112010 witnessed the birth of what could grow to become one of the fiercest rivalries in Australian sport, with the inception of Melbourne Heart to the A-League. ...
Sport Name - Football 06/10/2011While this upcoming A-League season promises to be the best yet, and crowds look likely to be given a huge boost, one club looks set to struggle ...
Sport Name - Football 06/10/2011The mining magnate with the big appetite and bigger bank balance has spat the dummy again. ...
Sport Name - Football 06/10/2011“We’re trying to turn the team into a club and it’s on the right track”. ...
Sport Name - Football 06/10/2011For last few weeks I’ve agonised over my 2011-2012 A-League predictions, trying to put the 10 clubs in order of how they’ll finish the home and away ...
Sport Name - Football 05/10/2011Branko Culina has been sacked from the Newcastle Jets head coach role, with youth team coach Craig Deans taking over the role in the interim. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/10/2011The much-anticipated buildup to the seventh season of the A-League culminated this morning at the season launch, and the message was literally spelt out by fans, players ...
Sport Name - Football 04/10/2011Some of Australian football’s biggest stars will absent when the Soceroos take on Malaysia and Oman over the next week. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/10/2011Young Socceroo Mustafa Amini has been ruled out of the opening month of the A-League season with a groin injury. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/09/2011In most cases, you would be a fool for agreeing with the heading above, but listen to my reasoning and I hope you’ll agree with it. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/09/2011The suggestion Sydney FC are “killing the football market” has no basis in reality. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/09/2011They might be without their marquee player Jason Culina for the whole season, but the Newcastle Jets remain bullish about their chances in year seven of the ...
Sport Name - Football 29/09/2011With Manchester United extremely lucky to salvage a point at Old Trafford against the Champions League minnows Basel FC (featuring Australian Scott Chipperfield playing the last 13 ...
Sport Name - Football 28/09/2011It was a tough night for Manchester clubs in the European Champions League, with Manchester City going down to Bayern 2-0 and Manchester United lucky to grab ...
Sport Name - Football 28/09/2011Ben Buckley was the Chief Operating Officer of the AFL and one of Australia’s most highly regarded sporting administrators and on the 8th of November 2006, FFA ...
Sport Name - Football 28/09/2011With the news yesterday that star recruits Harry Kewell and Brett Emerton will both be available for the opening night of the season in 10 days time, ...
Sport Name - Football 28/09/2011If what we saw at Hindmarsh Stadium in Adelaide Friday night translates into the 2011/12 A-League season, then Harry Kewell’s impact on domestic football in this country ...
Sport Name - Football 26/09/2011What a weekend it was for New Zealand sport. ...
Sport Name - Football 26/09/2011Between some playful Cockney speak, a tendency to refer to 26-year old players as ‘the boy’ and an affinity for gross exaggeration, Tottenham manager ‘Arry Redknapp occasionally ...
Sport Name - Football 24/09/2011The capture of Harry Kewell by Melbourne Victory has thrown down a gauntlet to the rest of the A-League, not only in terms of high-profile signings but ...
Sport Name - Football 23/09/2011Australian forward Tommy Oar has scored a stunning goal for his Dutch side FC Utrecht, firing the goal of the match in a KNVB Beker Cup second-round ...
Sport Name - Football 23/09/2011When Matt McKay signed for Scottish champions Glasgow Rangers, Brisbane Roar not only lost their inspirational leader and most dynamic midfielder, but the A-League also lost their ...
Sport Name - Football 23/09/2011They’ve hitherto polarised fans, but Gold Coast United have slipped under the radar for the upcoming A-League season. ...
Sport Name - Football 23/09/2011To many citizens, it may still feel surreal that Harry Kewell is actually treading the streets of Melbourne. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/09/2011What an off-season it has been for the Melbourne Victory. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/09/2011If Aurelio Vidmar and his Olyroos needed a reminder of just how difficult a job it will be to get to the London Olympics next year, then ...
Sport Name - Football 22/09/2011Manchester United have continued their tremendous form with a comprehensive 3-0 Carling Cup defeat of historical rivals Leeds United at Elland Road. ...
Sport Name - Football 21/09/2011The last headline an A-League fan wants to read two weeks before the start of the season is “Marquee star out for season”. ...
Sport Name - Football 21/09/2011The Newcastle Jets have suffered a major blow before a ball has been kicked for the new A-League season, with marquee signing Jason Culina requiring season ending ...
Sport Name - Football 20/09/2011It is make or break for Branko Culina. ...
Sport Name - Football 20/09/2011Manchester United’s phenomenal start to the English Premier League continued overnight in an entertaining spectacle that finished 3-1 to the Red Devils, and included a miss from ...
Sport Name - Football 19/09/2011Given the very tame reaction and almost lack of interest to the Four Corners program on Monday about the Australia’s failed 2022 FIFA World Cup bid, it ...
Sport Name - Football 19/09/2011Little did we know when Roman Abramovich took over in 2003 at Stamford Bridge that he would not only steer Chelsea away from mediocrity and establish it ...
Sport Name - Football 18/09/2011There were two things that caught the eye this week in the world of football; one obvious, the other less so, but equally worrying for football fans. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/09/2011What is your favourite moment in Australia’s football history? Is it the Socceroos holding their own at the 1974 World Cup? Or maybe that spine-tingling night against ...
Sport Name - Football 16/09/2011A brilliant goal from veteran midfielder Ryan Giggs has rescued Manchester United as the English club snatched a 1-1 draw with Benefica in the Champions League. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/09/2011Brisbane Roar will undoubtedly be given very short odds to continue their rampant unbeaten streak and repeat their double triumph. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/09/2011After starting the season with a postponement then getting paddled in successive games by the Manchester teams, Spurs travelled to Molineux to face a team that had ...
Sport Name - Football 15/09/2011Imagine a starting team, full of supreme athletes, mind-blowing speed and endurance and awe-inspiring array of skill and imagination. ...
Sport Name - Football 14/09/2011When the Socceroos take the field against Malaysia in Canberra on October 7, in a warm-up game ahead of the World Cup qualifier against Oman a few ...
Sport Name - Football 14/09/2011What a difference a week makes in football. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/09/2011In the early hours of Wednesday morning, just four days after a 2-1 win over Thailand that was of such poor quality veteran goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer said ...
Sport Name - Football 08/09/2011And so we wait, even longer than we initially expected. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/09/2011The Matildas have suffered a 1-0 loss to World Cup champions Japan, putting their qualification for the London Olympic Games in doubt. ...
Sport Name - Football 06/09/2011Why were Australia poor in their fortunate win over Thailand? There are a range of reasons to be explored. ...
Sport Name - Football 05/09/2011Job done, if not done quite to plan. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/09/2011
Captains are the key to any sporting success – Michael Clarke and Lucas Neill, in particular. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/09/2011Having spent the best part of 12 months on a footballing sabbatical in Europe, I was all but chuffed to see my hometown club Sydney FC, claim ...
Sport Name - Football 03/09/2011Following 123 fixtures, over seven rounds, the Mirabella Cup has ultimately arrived at the semi-finals stage, where only four teams are left standing. ...
Sport Name - Football 01/09/2011With all the hype floating around the A-League since the signing of key Socceroos Harry Kewell and Brett Emerton to Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC respectively, you ...
Sport Name - Football 01/09/2011As the Socceroos embark on the qualifying campaign for what is hoped will be Australia’s third consecutive World Cup in 2014, the hope is they will do ...
Sport Name - Football 31/08/2011The events of the past few weeks have been a bit like living in a dream for Australian football followers. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/08/2011The Serie A season is upon us once again. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/08/2011For football to grow in Australia, it needs a strong local domestic competition. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/08/2011In part one, Notts Forest, Sheffield Wednesday and Sunderland were examined to see whether there’s life in the slumbering form which might one day restore those clubs ...
Sport Name - Football 29/08/2011There is no question that football fans in Australia are passionate. ...
Sport Name - Football 29/08/2011“It is shameful there are no more than a handful of Socceroos who actually played most of their elite soccer in Australia,” says Rebecca Wilson. ...
Sport Name - Football 29/08/2011So Sydney FC have their marquee man in Brett Emerton. ...
Sport Name - Football 27/08/2011Melbourne Victory’s season opener against Sydney FC has turned into Harry Kewell against Brett Emerton almost overnight. ...
Sport Name - Football 26/08/2011Irrespective of where Vitezslav Lavicka eventually uses Brett Emerton, the expected signing for Sydney FC is another significant step ahead of season seven of the A-League, now ...
Sport Name - Football 25/08/2011So Harry Kewell forgoes huge money in the Middle East with almost no tax liability to return to the A-League and he’s a “greedy bastard”. ...
Sport Name - Football 25/08/2011Gold Coast United owner Clive Palmer’s recent reassurances have done little to change public opinion. ...
Sport Name - Football 24/08/2011As the momentum builds towards the start of the seventh A-League season, which kicks-off with a mouth-watering triple header on Saturday, October 8, it’s perhaps pertinent to ...
Sport Name - Football 24/08/2011Since English football’s first championship season in 1888/89, there have been 23 different winners of the title known until 1992 as the 1st Division championship, and from ...
Sport Name - Football 23/08/2011So, it has finally happened. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/08/2011The A-League season seven approaches and much is promised. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/08/2011Is Harry Kewell’s signing the most notable transfer in the history of Australian sport? The question was asked yesterday after the former Liverpool star agreed to join ...
Sport Name - Football 22/08/2011Hear that noise? It’s the collective sigh of relief coming from the Australian football community upon hearing the news that, finally, Harry Kewell is coming to the ...
Sport Name - Football 20/08/2011Robbie Keane will arrive in Los Angeles later today to put the finishing touches on his move to the LA Galaxy. ...
Sport Name - Football 20/08/2011According to OleOle, French striker Gregoire Akcelrod has reportedly caught the attention of Serie B outfit Brescia this summer. ...
Sport Name - Football 20/08/2011Has anyone here ever watched a game in Abu Dhabi? Anyone ever flown over to Dubai to catch Al-Ahli versus Al-Shabab in the derby? If not, why ...
Sport Name - Football 19/08/2011On Monday evening, a small selection of Australian football fans received a rather interesting e-mail in their inbox that was signed by Football Federation Australia CEO Ben ...
Sport Name - Football 18/08/2011After a disappointing display by the Young Socceroos in their World Cup, the knives are out for coach Jan Versleijen. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/08/2011As a Perth Glory fan, I couldn’t be further away. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/08/2011Week one of the English Premier League is in the books, and despite two scoreless draws, there was plenty of action. ...
Sport Name - Football 17/08/2011The FFA finds itself between a rock and a hard place once again as the ongoing Kewell A-League saga seems to be drawing to a close. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/08/2011An agreement has been reached and now all Matt McKay needs to complete his move to Scottish giants Rangers is a work permit. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/08/2011Compact, organised and dominant – the three words that best sum up the Socceroos’ 2-1 win over Wales in Cardiff this morning, with a host of Australians ...
Sport Name - Football 11/08/2011
England’s football friendly against Holland at Wembley on Wednesday has been cancelled following three nights of rioting in London, with three Carling Cup matches also postponed. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/08/2011Brisbane Roar has this morning confirmed it has received a transfer offer for club captain and Socceroo Matt McKay, without saying who the interested party is. ...
Sport Name - Football 08/08/2011Earlier this year, the current batch of Young Socceroos were heralded by the technical heads at FFA as a “talent team”, with the potential to go on ...
Sport Name - Football 08/08/2011I don’t fancy it will, but Harry Kewell’s omission from Holger Osieck’s 18-man squad to face Wales should act as a reality check for the Socceroos star. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/08/2011Confession time.
Sport Name - Football 03/08/2011If this Young Socceroo team is the most talented in years, then I’d hate to see one perceived as run of the mill, with their opening game ...
Sport Name - Football 02/08/2011With life bans, World Cup draws, Copa America finals and transfer dealings across Europe and beyond attracting most of the football media’s attention, it can be all ...
Sport Name - Football 01/08/2011We’ll know we’ve made it the day a newspaper superimposes a photo of Holger Osieck’s head onto a turnip and runs it on the back page. ...
Sport Name - Football 01/08/2011In the dizzying wake of Cadel Evans’ extraordinary success in France, Australian sporting fans can be forgiven for frantically searching for where their next hit will come ...
Sport Name - Football 30/07/2011Are you a member of an A-League club? If not, why not? The question isn’t posed as a precursor to an interrogation, but rather as a genuine ...
Sport Name - Football 29/07/2011This week’s announcement that Mohammad Bin Hamman had been found guilty of corruption by FIFA probably raised few eyebrows. ...
Sport Name - Football 28/07/2011Italian starlet Mario Balotelli’s poorly attempted backheel has drawn criticism from all quarters, with the enfant terrible not even safe from the scathing condemnation of his teammates. ...
Sport Name - Football 27/07/2011During the week, the Central Coast Mariners signed a landmark agreement with their association. ...
Sport Name - Football 23/07/2011Last week, The Roar contributor Midfielder wrote an article about how the A-League can learn from MLS. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/07/2011In the early hours of Monday morning as I passed the time before kick off in the 2011 Women’s World Cup final, I stumbled across an article ...
Sport Name - Football 21/07/2011When Nadeshiko took the FIFA Women’s World Cup, it was a great boost for women’s football in Asia. ...
Sport Name - Football 20/07/2011Awana Diab earned the unwanted epithet of football’s number one idiot after scoring the final goal for the United Arab Emirates from the penalty spot in their ...
Sport Name - Football 19/07/2011Good luck to Kosta Barbarouses. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/07/2011There has been a lot of debate, as happens with every generation of players, on whether Lionel Messi can be ranked with the greats such as Maradona ...
Sport Name - Football 15/07/2011This is something that I have been considering for some time in relation to what I feel the A-League needs to do to make sure of its ...
Sport Name - Football 14/07/2011What is the point of an international club friendly? Is it because a game against a European side gives your club an element of prestige they would ...
Sport Name - Football 14/07/2011
Young Socceroos Head Coach Jan Versleijen has announced the 21-player squad that will represent Australia at the FIFA Under 20 World Cup 2011 in Colombia. ...
Sport Name - Football 13/07/2011Irrespective of whether Surat Sukha’s departure from Melbourne Victory yesterday was due to the stated compassionate reasons or the need to free up funds for other signings, ...
Sport Name - Football 13/07/2011Watching Brazil at the under-17 World Cup and Copa America has really left me quite sad. ...
Sport Name - Football 12/07/2011What does Harry Kewell have to do with the current protracted pay dispute between the AFL and the AFLPA? The answer is nothing. ...
Sport Name - Football 12/07/2011Just like the seemingly mismatched shorts and jersey combination worn by the Matilda’s in their quarterfinal against Sweden, there was something not quite right about their final ...
Sport Name - Football 12/07/2011The Women’s World Cup in Germany has attracted worldwide television ratings well beyond even the most optimistic forecast. ...
Sport Name - Football 11/07/2011It has come to that inevitable stage where a curtain must be lowered and a new one raised at Old Trafford. ...
Sport Name - Football 11/07/2011Eddie McGuire knows a thing or two about conflicts of interest. ...
Sport Name - Football 11/07/2011Australian football has always been perceived as a realm full of potential and promise; however its overseas counter-parts have never considered the nation as part of the ...
Sport Name - Football 10/07/2011For a competition that began just seven years ago, the A-league’s rapid improvement as not only a domestic, but international league has been notable. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/07/2011A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article calling for the sacking of Lucas Neill. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/07/2011How desperately do we need some football on home soil right now? Harry Kewell’s potential return to the A-League kicked off a vibrant debate that has, uninterrupted ...
Sport Name - Football 07/07/2011Dario Vidosic will return to the A-League for Adelaide United, with the club to announce the Socceroo on a multi-year signing today. ...
Sport Name - Football 06/07/2011It’s officially a saga now.
Sport Name - Football 05/07/2011Another World Cup and Craig Foster calls for the Dutch coach of an Australian team to be sacked. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/07/2011As I prepare to return home following my time covering the Joeys at the 2011 Under-17 World Cup in Mexico, two moments stick out at me. ...
Sport Name - Football 01/07/2011So the wily Bernie Mandic has once again proved his worth by single-handedly bringing a brand new club into play for his star player, Harry Kewell. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/06/2011On a chilly Wednesday night last September, 17-year-old Josh McEachran showed the 40,000 fans packed into Stamford what the hype was about. ...
Sport Name - Football 29/06/2011The rioting was the final act of disappointment. ...
Sport Name - Football 28/06/2011AFL boss Eddie McGuire has revealed across Austereo radio that Harry Kewell will sign with the A-League’s Melbourne Victory. ...
Sport Name - Football 28/06/2011It hasn’t taken long for people to connect Channel 10’s decision not to broadcast AFL matches from next year with an opportunity for the A-League to be ...
Sport Name - Football 27/06/2011I wonder what those who participated in SBS documentary “Go Back To Where You Came From” would make of Teeboy Kamara? The youngest player in Australia’s under-17 ...
Sport Name - Football 27/06/2011Okay, so the title is tongue-in-cheek. ...
Sport Name - Football 26/06/2011A young, novocastrian striker, currently contracted to Melbourne Heart, who goes by the name of Jason Hoffman, may very well be Australia’s next goal-scoring star. ...
Sport Name - Football 24/06/2011Can Tasmania United fill the void left by the recently defunct North Queensland Fury? Yes, and they should be playing top flight in 2012. ...
Sport Name - Football 24/06/2011The A-League is in need of a spark for the upcoming season, and what better way to begin than with a transfer move to light up a ...
Sport Name - Football 23/06/2011The Australian is reporting esteemed SBS analyst and broadcaster Les Murray has revealed an explosive split in the Socceroos camp in the minutes before Australia’s opening 2010 ...
Sport Name - Football 22/06/2011Yesterday’s winter solstice might have made it the shortest day of the year, but it was one of the craziest in Australian football, encapsulating the ups and ...
Sport Name - Football 22/06/2011“In Mehmet and Francis, we have two young and respected former Socceroos who we believe will take this club to the next level – both domestically and ...
Sport Name - Football 22/06/2011Brisbane Roar has announced the appointment of former Socceroo and football analyst Paul Trimboli to the position of General Manager of Football. ...
Sport Name - Football 21/06/2011As an exercise in navigating the first hurdle on the road to next year’s London Olympics, it could hardly have been more comfortable for Aurelio Vidmar’s Olyroos, ...
Sport Name - Football 20/06/2011“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ...
Sport Name - Football 20/06/2011Sydney FC have continued to bolster their defensive stocks for the upcoming A-League season after unveiling Dutch defender Pascal Bosschaart this afternoon. ...
Sport Name - Football 17/06/2011The FIFA World Rankings have long drawn scorn from football fans far and wide. ...
Sport Name - Football 17/06/2011The fifth round of the Mirabella Cup continued over the Queen’s Birthday long-weekend. ...
Sport Name - Football 17/06/2011When Alex Brosque stepped up to the penalty spot in stoppage time on Wednesday night, he had the weight of a football-mad town on his shoulders. ...
Sport Name - Football 17/06/2011If the A-League is to settle on the current 10 teams for the next few years as seems to be the current thinking, then where should Sydney ...
Sport Name - Football 17/06/2011In 2007 the Matildas slipped out of Australia bound for the World Cup with little fanfare. ...
Sport Name - Football 16/06/2011With Newcastle United’s current squad of players looking likely to be split up, Alan Pardew has set his sights firmly on Ligue 1 for reinforcements. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/06/2011Twice a year, blokes around this great brown land complete a socks and jocks stock take. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/06/2011When the Matilda’s beat Ghana 4-1 in Hangzhou, China, almost four years ago, winning for the first time in a World Cup game, it barely rated a ...
Sport Name - Football 15/06/2011Ljubo Milicevic ‘s move to Hajduk Split might not do much for his tarnished off-field reputation, but does give him the opportunity to let his football do ...
Sport Name - Football 11/06/2011After watching a youthful Socceroos side record a comfortable victory against New Zealand at the Adelaide Oval on Sunday, it was again evident that there are several ...
Sport Name - Football 10/06/2011Lionel Messi is the most recent conqueror of Europe, with his mighty Barcelona FC army following. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/06/2011The unveiling of the Hyundai A-League 2011/12 season draw has been revealed by Football Federation Australia. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/06/2011If Sunday evening’s jaunt in Adelaide was a walk in the park for the youthful Socceroos, then last night’s thoroughly enjoyable 0-0 draw against Serbia was the ...
Sport Name - Football 08/06/2011Reports of Melbourne Victory’s audacious bid to lure Socceroos superstar Harry Kewell to the Hyundai A-League may prove to be unfounded, but if the move eventuates, it ...
Sport Name - Football 08/06/2011Australia have had an entertaining scoreless draw with Serbia after a high-tempo clash in Melbourne, with the focus of the game on Australia’s youngsters coming through to ...
Sport Name - Football 07/06/2011After the last couple of weeks, the last thing on many people’s minds would be trying to strengthen the link between the Australian game and FIFA. ...
Sport Name - Football 06/06/2011“We certainly didn’t see much merit in making an empty gesture alongside a small minority at the congress,” said FFA chief Ben Buckley on why Australia chose ...
Sport Name - Football 06/06/2011With two games in three days, and 23 players to assess, yesterday’s impressive 3-0 win over a lacklustre New Zealand will have given Holger Osieck plenty to ...
Sport Name - Football 06/06/2011The absence of another Frank Lowy waiting in the wings to push this Frank Lowy aside might account for the soccer commentariat’s relatively ho-hum reception of Warwick ...
Sport Name - Football 05/06/2011It’s both bewildering how such a level of confusion still reigns over the issue of player eligibility in spite of the fact that there are clear rules ...
Sport Name - Football 04/06/2011The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) has ranked just three Australian A-League clubs in the top 400 clubs worldwide. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/06/2011Widespread corruption allegations, gross wealth and a deeply unpopular leader whose behaviour has provoked a fierce reaction from his own people – so called rebels on a ...
Sport Name - Football 03/06/2011Perhaps the most curious thing about Republic of Ireland’s 5-0 drubbing of Northern Ireland in the Carling Nation’s Cup last week was the lack of analysis in ...
Sport Name - Football 03/06/2011Apathy.
Sport Name - Football 03/06/2011I watched the 2009-10 A-League Grand Final from a beer garden in Brisbane. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/06/2011Leadership is the one thing that defines great sporting administrators. ...
Sport Name - Football 02/06/2011Apathy.
Sport Name - Football 02/06/2011It has been a frustrating couple of weeks for football fans and journalists who have had to suffer the embarrassing machinations of the world game’s governing body ...
Sport Name - Football 02/06/2011For 45 minutes Australian football could dream. ...
Sport Name - Football 02/06/2011Setting: Etihad Stadium, Melbourne. ...
Sport Name - Football 01/06/2011Over the past 72 hours, London has played host to two sides not only united by a formation, but by a desire to get to the ball ...
Sport Name - Football 01/06/2011There are still flaws and it’ll continue to have its critics, but today’s launch saw the announcement of an A-League 2011-12 draw that is much more in ...
Sport Name - Football 31/05/2011“(Mohamed Bin Hammam) thought you can buy FIFA as they bought the World Cup. ...
Sport Name - Football 31/05/2011We saw early last A-League season that Adelaide United had just 13 fit players at one stage, which lead them to sign Cam Watson and Joe Keenan ...
Sport Name - Football 31/05/2011In 1973, Sepp Blatter was elected president of the World Society of Friends of Suspenders. ...
Sport Name - Football 31/05/2011The first week is always the hardest. ...
Sport Name - Football 31/05/2011The manner of Barcelona’s victory over Manchester United in the UEFA Champions League final has reopened the debate on whether or not they are the greatest club ...
Sport Name - Football 31/05/2011Following a pulsating UEFA Champions League Final, Wembley again plays host to a match of very high importance, as Reading and Swansea square off at the home ...
Sport Name - Football 30/05/2011As we await the showcase event of the European season in the UEFA Champions League between two titans, Manchester United and Barcelona, I will be looking at ...
Sport Name - Football 28/05/2011Karl Marx rose from the dead in George A. ...
Sport Name - Football 27/05/2011Over the past few weeks, the governance of Australian football, specifically the struggles of the A-League and how to address them, have been hot topics amongst fans, ...
Sport Name - Football 27/05/2011Just in case you have been hiding under a rock, the biggest issue to come out of the football world in the past couple of days has ...
Sport Name - Football 26/05/2011In an extraordinary match, Cobram Victory (Regional), an outfit plying their trade on the Murray River border, has pulled off the upset of the competition by outclassing ...
Sport Name - Football 25/05/2011Holger Osieck’s rejuvenation of the Socceroos continues at pace. ...
Sport Name - Football 25/05/2011Socceroos coach Holger Osieck has selected a squad of 23-players for the upcoming international friendly matches against New Zealand and Serbia. ...
Sport Name - Football 24/05/2011For the first time in history, we may see two English sides competing in Europe from the second division. ...
Sport Name - Football 23/05/2011Someone buy Ian Evatt a drink. ...
Sport Name - Football 23/05/2011Something is happening in the Philippines. ...
Sport Name - Football 21/05/2011FIFA president Sepp Blatter has admitted an internal inquiry into claims of corruption may force a re-vote for the 2022 World Cup hosting rights. ...
Sport Name - Football 20/05/2011The fifth round of the pioneering Mirabella Cup competition was drawn last night with 12 exhilarating fixtures on display. ...
Sport Name - Football 20/05/2011Talk about throwing stones at a hornets’ nest. ...
Sport Name - Football 20/05/2011There’s the European Union, and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) – but neither quite represents the true unity of an entire continent in sporting terms. ...
Sport Name - Football 19/05/2011When it comes to World Cup draws, Australia’s youth teams don’t seem to be able to catch a break at the moment. ...
Sport Name - Football 19/05/2011Football Federation Australia isn’t alone wrestling with the media-rights dilemma – the Football Association is confronting the same devilish call with regard to the British equivalent of ...
Sport Name - Football 18/05/2011Every once in a while, you see something special in football that not only goes against the grain and makes you sit up and take notice, but, ...
Sport Name - Football 18/05/2011Recently on the Roar, Mike Tuckerman wrote that free-to-air-TV can’t save the cash-strapped A-League. ...
Sport Name - Football 17/05/2011As Yaya Toure wheeled away in celebration at Wembley, did anyone else watching on TV wonder how an Australian FFA Cup final might play out? Will the ...
Sport Name - Football 16/05/2011When we woke yesterday to the news that Lisa De Vanna had been evicted from the Matildas camp in Gosford for disciplinary reasons on the morning of ...
Sport Name - Football 16/05/2011I picked myself up off the floor and read it again: “If we get the A-League right I’d give us a nine out of 10 … The ...
Sport Name - Football 13/05/2011After a pulsating season, with so many ebbs and flows, we have hit that time of year again – the dramatic lottery of the English Championship football ...
Sport Name - Football 12/05/2011And so it begins.
Sport Name - Football 12/05/2011When it was clear that Roy Hodgson was on borrowed time at Liverpool and all the speculation was linking club legend Kenny Dalglish with a return to ...
Sport Name - Football 11/05/2011This week I had the chance to exclusively interview former Sydney FC, and now J-League Shimizu S-Pulse midfielder, Alex Brosque. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/05/2011Frank Lowy knows how to survive. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/05/2011After watching the matches between Real Madrid and Barcelona, which promised so much but didn’t quite deliver, blighted with theatrics that would make most soapie actors turn ...
Sport Name - Football 09/05/2011France Football Federation (FFF) personnel had a meeting last November, which has been thought to contain talk about restricting the number of dual-nationality French players in the ...
Sport Name - Football 09/05/2011
Whether rugby, football, or AFL, there’s one thing Australian fans never get the chance to appreciate. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/05/2011Life, and its taking, is often filled with its curious assortment of ironies and oddities. ...
Sport Name - Football 08/05/2011In September last year the FFA’s Match Review Panel took controversial action against two A-League players, Patricio Perez and Michael Baird, who were accused of simulation. ...
Sport Name - Football 06/05/2011The FFA has announced that the Socceroos will host Serbia in an international friendly at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne on Tueday, 7 June. ...
Sport Name - Football 05/05/2011It is time for FIFA to wake up to the impact of technology and realize the fundamental role it plays in the modern world of sport. ...
Sport Name - Football 05/05/2011Soon the Australian under-20s will be playing in a youth World Cup. ...
Sport Name - Football 05/05/2011It wasn’t exactly a fairytale farewell, but then some would argue he didn’t deserve one. ...
Sport Name - Football 05/05/2011French football is in turmoil. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/05/2011The recent royal wedding, and then the announced killing of Osama Bin Laden, possibly made the last few days the weekend of all weekends. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/05/2011In the aftermath of the Real Madrid vs Barcelona Champions League Semi-Final, much debate about the antics of Barcelona players has been aired from the media and ...
Sport Name - Football 02/05/2011On the morning of Australia’s victory against Germany, I was scanning the various morning news shows for highlights of the goals as the game had just finished. ...
Sport Name - Football 02/05/2011Arsenal versus Manchester United was broadcast live on Pay-TV in the United Kingdom. ...
Sport Name - Football 02/05/2011Recently I was asked to give a lecture in a sports studies course on the history of the “round ball” game in Australia. ...
Sport Name - Football 30/04/2011Newcastle Jets captain and marquee Michael Bridges has been forced to end his football career due to a chronic knee injury. ...
Sport Name - Football 29/04/2011The recent controversial match between Real Madrid and Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final was certainly a heated one. ...
Sport Name - Football 29/04/2011Real Madrid have taken the first – potentially damaging steps – in changing the way sporting clubs react to what they believe to be poor officiating. ...
Sport Name - Football 29/04/2011Well, wasn’t that one heck of a stoush? On one side was a team representing the dark forces of football, a bunch of preening, self-absorbed whiners hell-bent ...
Sport Name - Football 29/04/2011Arsenal’s bid to win the Barclays English Premier League title – and its first trophy since 2005 – is effectively in tatters. ...
Sport Name - Football 28/04/2011Like I said a couple of month’s back, Frank Lowy’s legacy is worse than it looks and it’s probably not a bad time to be getting out ...
Sport Name - Football 28/04/2011The biggest surprise for me, since Federal Sports Minister Senator Mark Arbib announced the Smith review on Sunday, has been how split opinion is on the matter. ...
Sport Name - Football 28/04/2011The Easter period has seen an abundance of Mirabella Cup fixtures take place with the fourth round well under way. ...
Sport Name - Football 27/04/2011Announced over the weekend, the Smith Review will be tasked with conducting a full examination into the running of football in Australia. ...
Sport Name - Football 27/04/2011After 732 goalless minutes, Fernando Torres’ first Chelsea strike has left many questions to be answered. ...
Sport Name - Football 27/04/2011With the A-League’s seventh season set to kick-off in October, there’s the real prospect that Anzac Day in 2012 will feature a football match, or more, to ...
Sport Name - Football 27/04/2011By now, we are familiar with the Anzac Day football rituals. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/04/2011I was once watching an Asian Cup qualifier between Japan and Saudi Arabia when a tsunami warning flashed upon my TV screen. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/04/2011The third round of the Mirabella Cup has ventured into the second week of proceeding with a further five games taking place as mid-week fixtures last week. ...
Sport Name - Football 21/04/2011As the European footballing season draws to a close in what has been another unforgettable year of drama, we head into the home straight in eager anticipation ...
Sport Name - Football 21/04/2011So both Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory have managed to turn their Asian Champions League campaigns around and in rather sensational style to boot. ...
Sport Name - Football 21/04/2011As regular readers of my columns on this site will know, a few days ago I arrived back in Australia following a three week stint in Europe ...
Sport Name - Football 20/04/2011When all else is said and done, the A-League’s North Queensland Fury are gone. ...
Sport Name - Football 20/04/2011Stung by the criticism after last week’s limp display at home to Kashima Antlers and needing nothing but a win to keep their Asian Champions League campaign ...
Sport Name - Football 20/04/2011I was one of the people who jumped on the Northern Spirit bandwagon during their first season – my first interest in an Australian soccer club. ...
Sport Name - Football 19/04/2011While most eyes on Sunday night were focused on Arsenal and Liverpool at the Emirates an outstanding performance went under the radar at Wembley on a weekend ...
Sport Name - Football 19/04/2011The Australian National Soccer League (NSL) kicked off in 1977 and by 1998 the league had gone through a 21-year roller coaster of football highs and lows. ...
Sport Name - Football 19/04/2011Recently I wrote about five things we learnt from the 2010-11 A-League season. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/04/2011Paul Scholes is one of the highest-paid footballers in the world, with the 36-year-old wrecking ball reportedly earning more than £4 million per season. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/04/2011El Clasico.
Sport Name - Football 16/04/2011The FA Cup – the oldest cup competition in the world – will this weekend see two powerhouses from the northern city of Manchester fight it out ...
Sport Name - Football 16/04/2011I lived in a perfect world once, in my dreams, and its media respected quiet news days for what they were. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/04/2011Following the demise of the now defunct National Soccer League in 2004, football in Australia has experienced some unprecedented highs. ...
Sport Name - Football 14/04/2011Earlier this week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Socceroos superstar Tim Cahill for an interview that will air on The World Game this ...
Sport Name - Football 14/04/2011Would A-League fans prefer their club to sign a marquee coach or a marquee player? It’s a question which should be asked amid the ongoing Roy Keane ...
Sport Name - Football 11/04/2011Dugald Massey recently wrote an article entitled, ‘The game is all but over for the A-League’, which attracted a lot of consternation. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/04/2011It’s the hottest rumour in town, according to The Age: Roy Keane, former Manchester United star, is reportedly considering signing on to coach the Melbourne Victory, after ...
Sport Name - Football 08/04/2011Roy Keane will meet Melbourne Victory to discuss the coaching role made vacant after Ernie Merrick was sacked by the club. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/04/2011
With the LA lifestyle, the permanent tabloid attention, the numerous (but brief) club moves, regular talk show appearances and the general celebrity fanfare about his appearance, could ...
Sport Name - Football 07/04/2011Okay, some things we encounter in life are just plain weird – Mike Gibson’s hair style; that Puerto Rican guy who swears he is Jesus – but ...
Sport Name - Football 05/04/2011One thing that I feel is a must for every generation of Socceroos is a season ending tour of South America. ...
Sport Name - Football 05/04/2011Looking at the 2010/2011 A-League season, there was a number of stand-out reasons for the ongoing success of the competition, both positive and negative. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/04/2011After the first-half of the Germany-Australia friendly in Moenchengladbach this morning, my fear was that the Socceroos were on their way to a similar defeat as the ...
Sport Name - Football 31/03/2011When Darren Bent wheeled away after scoring England’s second goal against Wales in Cardiff on Saturday, he condemned the English to more mediocrity on the world stage. ...
Sport Name - Football 28/03/2011The German national team was rubbish a decade ago. ...
Sport Name - Football 25/03/2011If it wasn’t for the fact that Duisburg is home to the world’s largest inland port, the western German city would be an entirely unremarkable place. ...
Sport Name - Football 25/03/2011Reflecting on what can only be described as the best A-League season yet over the weekend, I thought it might be a good idea to dissect some ...
Sport Name - Football 23/03/2011So Shane Smeltz is off to Perth Glory following his two-month stint back on the Gold Coast. ...
Sport Name - Football 21/03/2011Despite its recent dumping by the FFA, the bid for an A-League Football side based in Western Sydney is still in the race for a franchise license. ...
Sport Name - Football 19/03/2011One of the young stars of the dramatic A-League grand final could go the way of Craig Johnston and Ersan Gulum and be lost to Australian football. ...
Sport Name - Football 19/03/2011As Ben of Phnom Penh says, so-called ethnic clubs around Australian football have been ‘apologising’ for their origins long before Frank Lowy came along. ...
Sport Name - Football 19/03/2011The inaugural Mirabella Cup draw was brought to life last week with a live streaming of the event via the FFV website. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/03/2011Leverage: to improve or enhance; power to act effectively; to supplement (money, for example) with leverage. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/03/2011The A-League season is too short to compete with other leagues around the world. ...
Sport Name - Football 18/03/2011A couple of years ago, at the end of the A-League season, I was asked to bring a song in to play on the last episode of ...
Sport Name - Football 17/03/2011Watching the Hyundai A-League grand final yesterday was incredible, and as a Roar supporter, simply unbeatable. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/03/2011Having watched the A-League over the past few seasons, and speaking with friends and work colleagues, I couldn’t help but think that Australian football has been losing ...
Sport Name - Football 15/03/2011Melbourne Victory will host Jeju United at the Docklands Tuesday night looking to make a fresh start in the Asian Champions League after they were thrashed 5-1 ...
Sport Name - Football 15/03/2011With the A-League season finally over, we can now reflect on what has happened during a hectic past seven months or so. ...
Sport Name - Football 15/03/2011I can still remember when it all began. ...
Sport Name - Football 14/03/2011Brisbane Roar staged one of the greatest comebacks in Australian sport last night. ...
Sport Name - Football 14/03/2011A friend texted me at the end of extra time during the gripping A-League Grand Final. ...
Sport Name - Football 14/03/2011Sepp Blatter, the President of FIFA, has confirmed that goal-line review technology would be embraced for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil should a reliable, technologically-sound system ...
Sport Name - Football 14/03/2011Join me tonight at 8pm (AEDT) for all the post game analysis of the A-League Grand Final between the Brisbane Roar and the Central Coast Mariners, kicking ...
Sport Name - Football 13/03/2011Today is rightfully a day of great celebration for the A-League, with the two best teams in the competition this season, Brisbane Roar and Central Coast Mariners, ...
Sport Name - Football 13/03/2011Melbourne Victory today sensationally parted ways with foundation coach Ernie Merrick, one game into their current Asian Champions League campaign, with speculation increasing that the club will ...
Sport Name - Football 12/03/2011Arsenal’s blustering manager is on the warpath. ...
Sport Name - Football 12/03/2011“Is the #aleague (A-League) GF going to be broadcast, or is it one of those pay-only things?” tweeted a Brisbane resident. ...
Sport Name - Football 11/03/2011Testament to the potential of the A-League is the fact more fans will pile through the gates to watch Brisbane Roar than popular NRL side Brisbane Broncos ...
Sport Name - Football 11/03/2011I lost a good friend recently. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/03/2011In recent days, both Craig Foster and The Age’s Michael Lynch have called for independent reviews of Football Federation Australia’s performance in recent years. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/03/2011We’ve heard it all before, really. ...
Sport Name - Football 10/03/2011If somebody told you that Barcelona would score a team goal involving 16 passes, 44 touches, across 45 seconds, and that it would involve all but one ...
Sport Name - Football 10/03/2011The scene was Bluetongue Stadium, a wet Sunday afternoon, on the last weekend of November last year with the Central Coast Mariners taking on the Brisbane Roar. ...
Sport Name - Football 09/03/2011As Libya descends into civil war, the trail of the Gaddafi family through the highest echelons of international government and sport becomes thicker by the day. ...
Sport Name - Football 08/03/2011The awarding of the 2011 Johnny Warren medal to Marcos Flores on Sunday night was a moment that summed up the last 12 months for Australian football. ...
Sport Name - Football 08/03/2011I write this article just a day after FIFA met to decide the allocation of World Cup qualifying spots for 2014. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/03/2011After a fortnight which has required the Australian football community to address some quite heavy and serious issues, including the Fury being dropped, disappointing ACL efforts by ...
Sport Name - Football 07/03/2011This Sunday is the game that we’ve been waiting for all season – the A-League Grand Final. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/03/2011The instalment of the sixth Hyundai A-League season encompassed many changes on and off the pitch. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/03/2011Ange Postecoglou is named Coach of the Year. ...
Sport Name - Football 07/03/2011I confess; where the code wars are concerned, I’m a full-on hypocrite. ...
Sport Name - Football 06/03/2011The inner machinations of football politics have risen to the fore once again. ...
Sport Name - Football 06/03/2011Brisbane Roar midfielder Matt McKay began the 2010/11 A-League season with the reputation of being a pretty handy footballer, but wasn’t considered a superstar of the league. ...
Sport Name - Football 05/03/2011As the last rites were being performed over North Queensland Fury last week and angry football supporters raged over the state of the A-League and Football Federation ...
Sport Name - Football 05/03/2011Some decent footballing news this morning, with FIFA announcing in Zurich that New Zealand will host the 2015 Youth World Cup – the under-20 event. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/03/2011I know that with the current demise of the Fury, everyone is coming up with solutions for how the A-League should expand. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/03/2011I consider myself to be a reasonable, tolerant person, but last Sunday was the final straw. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/03/2011I think it is time that all fans of the old NSL (and I was one of them) come back to Australian football, or more specifically the ...
Sport Name - Football 04/03/2011Well, North Queensland Fury certainly lived up to their name when their advisory board fronted the media on Wednesday. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/03/2011“I feel sorry for Frank Lowy. ...
Sport Name - Football 04/03/2011Put simply, the license for the Fury should never have been granted. ...
Sport Name - Football 03/03/2011Let’s start off by stating that the A-League is not in peril, despite what the non-football media will be espousing after the dumping of the North Queensland ...
Sport Name - Football 03/03/2011
North Queensland Fury CEO Rabieh Krayem said yesterday: “What needs to happen out of any major decision or disaster is you reflect and take some positive out ...
Sport Name - Football 03/03/2011If something doesn’t exist, people don’t generally notice what they’re missing. ...
Sport Name - Football 02/03/2011Any hope of last-minute salvation was dashed yesterday when Football Federation Australia (FFA) axed North Queensland Fury from the A-League; saving $2 million for the governing body ...
Sport Name - Football 02/03/2011It’s kick-off time for another edition of the AFC Champions League, and that can only mean one thing – the ready-made excuses will start coming thick and ...
Sport Name - Football 02/03/2011With the axe having been sharpened and held poised for months, Football Federation Australia has finally killed off North Queensland Fury. ...
Sport Name - Football 01/03/2011Tonight Melbourne Victory will become only the second Australian side to compete in the Asian Champions League for a third time when they take on 2008 Champions ...
Sport Name - Football 01/03/2011I was reading an article on here just the other day, where one of the comments left referred to the strength of grassroots football, and that this ...
Sport Name - Football 01/03/2011Australia’s most successful club comes into the regions most prestigious club competition looking to erase the bitter memories of their 2010 campaign, where they finished bottom of ...
Sport Name - Football 28/02/2011Now that I’ve got your attention, all I ask is for a few hundred words to make my point before you launch a barrage of rotten tomatoes ...
Sport Name - Football 28/02/2011Have you ever seen a more dramatic and gripping weekend of A-League finals action than the one just dished up? With momentum swings this way and that ...
Sport Name - Football 28/02/2011Sydney FC are in crisis.
Sport Name - Football 28/02/2011The curtain will be closing on Kevin Muscat and one of the most successful, yet contentious careers, from an Australian footballer. ...
Sport Name - Football 25/02/2011This is getting ridiculous.
Sport Name - Football 25/02/2011I was sitting in a pub last Saturday evening with my mate, Richard. ...
Sport Name - Football 25/02/2011Now here’s a Football Federation Australia decision we can all agree on and enjoy: the establishment of an FFA Cup – just like the English one, only ...
Sport Name - Football 25/02/2011When Bob Dylan took to the stage at the Newport Folk Festival with an electric band on July 25th 1965, sections of the crowd booed the songwriter ...
Sport Name - Football 25/02/2011Jason Culina’s decision to sign with the Newcastle Jets bucked the trend of Australian players heading to Asia. ...
Sport Name - Football 25/02/2011Finally football fans can rejoice. ...
Sport Name - Football 24/02/2011In a development that is likely to interest all followers of the beautiful game, the Guardian has reported that FIFA’s first forays into examining goal-line technology has ...
Sport Name - Football 24/02/2011The retirement of Australian football’s foremost religious figure hasn’t exactly rocked the church to its foundations, but it has left anxious and confused a small contingent of ...
Sport Name - Football 24/02/2011Player agent Lou Sticca made some fair points when he slammed the concept of A-League clubs ‘borrowing’ players from rivals clubs on short-term deals for the AFC ...
Sport Name - Football 24/02/2011Melbourne Victory were eliminated by Gold Coast United on the weekend, which ended the possibility of Tom Pondeljak playing in another Grand Final. ...
Sport Name - Football 23/02/2011There’s the story about Matt Giteau’s infamous green headgear, or the time Nathan Sharpe waved to my mum. ...
Sport Name - Football 23/02/2011Jason Culina has quit Gold Coast United FC to join the Newcastle Jets for the 2011/12 season. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/02/2011Sydney FC CEO Edwin Lugt has handed in his resignation to the board on the eve of Sydney FC’s Asian Champions League (ACL) games. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/02/2011Football has never been more popular in Australia with levels of participation continuing to rise and the sustained success of the Socceroos on the international stage. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/02/2011After leaving AAMI Park recently I had a sinking feeling that I would not be able to attend another match live for a number of months. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/02/2011The first week of the finals is in the books, and we’re two teams closer to seeing who lifts the toilet seat for the 2010-11 season. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/02/2011If the English Premier League clubs, particularly at the high-flying end of the competition, are genuinely more interested in pursuing league or European glory, why even let ...
Sport Name - Football 22/02/2011So the A-League finals kicked off on the weekend with a modest mixture of improved crowds and exciting football. ...
Sport Name - Football 22/02/2011The Herald Sun‘s front page claim that football fans are the most violent was nothing more than a media beat-up designed to take attention away from the ...
Sport Name - Football 22/02/2011The role of the football spectator has been a hot topic in recent weeks. ...
Sport Name - Football 21/02/2011