Begorrah. Talk about the luck of the Irish. Ireland’s football team was cruelly denied a place at next year’s World Cup in South Africa due to a blatant piece of cheating from the French this morning.
In an act of grand larceny, ex-Arsenal striker Thierry Henry – currently at Spanish giants Barcelona – handballed twice (the [...]
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Andre Agassi: No more heroes any more?
November 1, 2009 – 8:29 pm
Is Andre Agassi’s name even Andre Agassi?
It’s worth asking considering other revelations contained in Agassi’s autobiography titled Open published next week. Thanks to sensational serialised extracts from the book, media outlets all over the world have been happy to give Agassi’s book fantastic free publicity. The five-times Grand Slam champ’s confessions that he used crystal meth, [...]
Family ties: the curse of sports fans
October 19, 2009 – 8:23 am
A few weeks ago, I did something far worse to my four-year-old son than hitting him with a wooden spoon. I took him to his first football match.
Striking him with a kitchen implement probably wouldn’t cause as much long term mental trauma as introducing him to a world where people agonise about ‘their’ sports team’s [...]
Roger Federer: No more nice guy Feddy?
September 17, 2009 – 9:26 am
Is Roger Federer the greatest ever tennis player? It’s debatable. And experts have been doing just that both before and after Federer’s record breaking 15th Grand Slam tournament win at Wimbledon this year. While pondering whether the Swiss ace is indeed better than the likes of Bjorn Borg, Pete Sampras and (our) Rod Laver, there [...]
Reason for football fans to be cheerful
September 15, 2009 – 11:33 am
SBS has reportedly already booked $20m worth of advertising for next year’s football World Cup coverage. They deserve it for their long term support of the beautiful game when commercial TV stations weren’t interested.
Gripes about SBS being allowed to have ad breaks aside, Australian football fans should be thankful the station has the TV rights [...]
Whatever happened to the likely lads?
August 31, 2009 – 10:08 am
The A-League’s fourth season kicked off earlier this month. The nascent competition has been a boon for local football, bringing much needed respectability to the world game in Australia. A professional, well run league has attracted corporate sponsorship, TV rights money and good coverage from a previously unsupportive Australian media.
It’s also attracted international attention with [...]
Football’s beaten generation
April 23, 2009 – 7:41 pm
Picture this: 14-year-old Australian boys are sent abroad where they’re subjected to physical assaults by adult men for petty reasons. There’s blood and bruises. Noses are broken. There would be a national outcry, right? So why is this accepted and tolerated in the name of sport?
This Sunday Age article on under-20s [...]
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