Reconstructing the Asian Champions League
In the midst of the build-up to the European Champions League final, major changes to the Asian equivalent have been announced. The significance for the Australian participants is quite considerable.
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Bruce Djite - Archie the second
If the tetchy negotiations and media blurtings surrounding Bruce Djite’s imminent overseas move appear somewhat familiar, there’s a good reason.
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The Australian FFA Cup: The Bitter Cup
I suppose it was only a matter of time before an article such as this emerged.
The idea, of course, is enormously tempting. Many fans of the old NSL like nothing better than to belittle the standard of the A-League, contemptuously dismissing even the better sides as by no means comparable with the great NSL sides of the mid-nineties.
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Socceroos v Ghana football match review
The friendly against
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Australian football creates online blog frenzy
SINCE the formation of Football Federation Australia back in January 2005, football has undergone massive changes at all levels. This has put football (soccer as it was previously called) on the map with the creation of the A League and the successful world cup campaign for the Socceroos in Germany 2006.
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Fixing the Spike - Mark Milligan Saga
The Mark Milligan saga of the last few days has certainly cast a pall of bad temper over the Olyroos’ preparations for Beijing. Although Milligan is no stranger to no-show controversies (as any Sydney FC fan could confirm), securing his club future should indeed be his first priority at the moment, and if the FFA were in fact told about his intended whereabouts this week, they don’t come out of things particularly well.
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A League: Version Four
Well, the 2008/09 season of the A-League has landed, with the first round featuring a grand final replay and a Sydney Melbourne grudge match (or perhaps, on the basis of last season’s encounters between the two teams, drudge match is a more appropriate description).
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Five-Ring Foolishness
Everyone seems to be having their say on the Danny Vukovic reprieve. I’ll join the crowd.
Suffice to say that the appeals committee in question has made itself look very foolish, and the precedent is a poor one. The punishment handed down was excessive, but the convenient splitting of the ban into pre- and post-Olympic periods is laughable.
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Burning Down the House
Messrs. Hill and Slater were not slow to bestow all manner of praise on Nathan Burns for his “assist hat-trick” last night, which included a spectacular darting run to the by-line followed by a crisp cut-back for Travis Dodd. Not the first time that we’ve seen such a move from Burns, in fact.
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Marquee Lite - update
Les Murray, in his latest opinion piece on the World Game site, has come out strongly in favour of the FFA’s “Youth Marquee” initiative. He states his case fairly enough, but in mentioning the current glut of young talent at the Queensland Roar, he has in fact touched on one of the weaknesses of the plan.
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