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Football Writers' Festival: Soccer Socrates meets the Pigskin Poindexters
Is there really such a thing as Australian football culture?
19 Mar 2019
Life After Mulvey - enter the uber alpha coach
The Mariners are about as low as any team can get right now, which is good. The only way is up.
10 Mar 2019
'Something rotten is seeping into the Mariners...'
If you look at the stats to see how often the team who scores first wins a match, I reckon it would be at least 50%, but the Mariners have led eight times so far this season for just one result. What’s going wrong?
2 Feb 2019
Thoughts on Oz v UAE
Not only can I hardly bear to write this, I can hardly bear to think about it. Australia are out.
26 Jan 2019
Thoughts on Oz vs Uzbekistan
Yet another ordeal for Socceroos fans, but somehow we scraped through.
22 Jan 2019
Thoughts on Oz v Syria
So Australia are through to the knockout rounds, and after a full day of recovering my shattered nerves, I’m finally able to write about it.
17 Jan 2019
Cornering Chris Nikou
If you could get Chris Nikou in a corner and hassle him about his plans for the next few years, what would you ask him?
16 Jan 2019
Thoughts on Oz v Palestine
Well that was more like it. A bit more urgency and some strong individual performances have put the Socceroos back in the Asian Cup race.
12 Jan 2019
We have to talk about Oceania...
Australia may be struggling at the Asian Cup right now, but that’s why we joined Asia – to get strong, regular competition that would force us to grow as a footballing nation.
11 Jan 2019
Thoughts on Oz v Jordan
So we lost the first game – a game we should certainly have won. It’s a setback but the overreaction in some quarters is just plain ridiculous.
7 Jan 2019
The Once and Future Mariners
Who’d be a Mariners fan these days? More than a year since we had a win and looking less likely every week.
5 Jan 2019
Arnie's Army for the UAE
Looking towards the Asian Cup, there is little further opportunity to impress, except at club level. Who will make the final cut?
21 Nov 2018
Only Football Can Do This...
Wow! What a game! Only football with its tiny margins governing failure or success can generate that kind of white knuckle ride.
31 Oct 2018
Arzani set for dream Hoops debut?
The word is that Daniel Arzani was hooked from the Reserves match this week and sent to train with the Celtic first team. He won’t be part of their Europa League game tomorrow, but he might feature against Hearts in the League Cup on Monday.
26 Oct 2018
Graham Arnold: The Master of Systems
Okay, Kuwait seemed about as interested in the game as their crowd, but you can only play what’s in front of you. Playing in stifling heat on an over-grassed pitch, the Arnie Era got off to a very solid start.
17 Oct 2018
How to fix penalty decisions?
I have a crazy suggestion for a new rule that might improve the game.
4 Oct 2018
The Extra Mile - McKinna on Jedinak
Lawrie McKinna was the coach who gave Mile Jedinak his first big chance in professional football. The following is an extract from Lawrie's biography (published in 2016) in which he discusses Mile's development and impact on the Mariners before going overseas...
1 Oct 2018
Version 14 A-League...Bring it on!
FFA’s war with FIFA. FFA’s war with its own stakeholders. The prospect of a normalisation committee and being turfed out of the Asian Cup. The Socceroos starting life under a coach who divides the fans. Expansion about to delight two and disaffect the rest. And pop music at goal kicks and corners? Some would suggest that Australian football’s traditional death wish is simply ratcheting up a notch, but I reckon this could be the best season ever.
18 Sep 2018
Let's Sing Another Song Boys
I absolutely love the FFA Cup and everything it stands for. Except for one thing. The team songs.
31 Aug 2018
Who'll love a lad Usain?
The eyes of the world are on the Central Coast right now. Wondering… Could it really be so? Could he actually play professional football? Could we really love a lad Usain?
21 Aug 2018
FFA Cupsets show expansion is ready to go
One of the obstacles occasionally thrown up by anti-expansion apologists (and how many of those are left?) is the danger of spreading talent too thinly across the league. Well given the recent performance of NPL clubs in the FFA Cup, that fear is pretty much blown out of the water.
9 Aug 2018
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