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Football’s beaten generation

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 [...]

Socceroos “almost” through to World Cup as largest ever Foxtel audience tunes in

Thanks to Crikey’s TV guru Glenn Dyer, Crikey Soprts can reveal that the Australia/Uzbekistan World Cup Qualifying game in Sydney last night was the most watched ever program on Pay TV in Australia. The game averaged 431,000 people watching from 8pm to 10pm.
Amazing effort by the Soccerroos to all but qualify for the [...]