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

July 15, 2011 – 9:02 am

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.

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

July 14, 2011 – 9:32 am

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

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Crikey Sports Jock Wrap — episode two

June 24, 2011 – 4:55 pm

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.

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

December 3, 2010 – 8:50 am

Qatar. WTF FIFA. I mean seriously.

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The Liverpool FC sale: a unique perspective

October 21, 2010 – 11:10 am

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

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Love is blind when it comes to sport

September 14, 2010 – 10:48 am

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.

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

July 12, 2010 – 10:30 am

Holland win! Clogs, windmills and dikes for all!

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Socceroos bow out with a win, our pride restored

June 24, 2010 – 8:17 am

Bravo Australia. Bravo.

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

May 17, 2010 – 11:58 am

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

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How to run a football club 101

May 5, 2010 – 10:52 am

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 [...]

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