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Category Archives: Football

Victory vs. Celtic: kilts, the cold and quality football

Your intrepid Crikey intern along with just over twenty thousand other football fans braved typically abominable Melbourne weather on Wednesday night to watch a pre-season friendly between the Melbourne Victory and the touring Glasgow Celtic.

…and no-one gets angrier at the TV than you Dad

Feel the passion as an elderly Argentinean River Plate fan screams at his TV as he watches the game — lovingly filmed by his family.

Crikey Sports Jock Wrap — episode two

In this week’s episode of Jock Wrap, the lads discuss the week’s AFL games, Queesland’s efforts to save Johnathan Thurston and whether it’s “un-Australian” to badmouth Lleyton Hewitt.

Screw you FIFA. And screw you Qatar. And sucked in England.

Qatar. WTF FIFA. I mean seriously.

The Liverpool FC sale: a unique perspective

I haven’t commented on the Liverpool FC sale dramas because I was waiting for this..

Love is blind when it comes to sport

The fans of every code can point to their game and say it was thrilling and the best. And they are all right. For them.

The FIFA World Cup Open Thread: España, Campeón del Mundo!

Holland win! Clogs, windmills and dikes for all!

Socceroos bow out with a win, our pride restored

Bravo Australia. Bravo.

England’s 2018 World Cup bid in turmoil: will Australia do a Bradbury?

Have the odds for a 2018 FIFA World Cup in Australia just get a whole lot shorter?

How to run a football club 101

Vince Chadwick writes: Sam Newman take note: when the female fans at German soccer club St. Pauli took offence at a crude advert for a men’s magazine at the club’s low-budget stadium in Hamburg, the signs were promptly removed. The club was the first to ban sexist and racial comments by fans at games, and [...]