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Melbourne or Sydney?

June 18, 2009 – 2:03 pm

If Australia won its bid to host the 2018 or 2022 FIFA World Cup who should host the final?
Should it be at the MCG in Melbourne?
Or at Stadium Australia in Sydney?

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Crikey Sports Q&A: Football Federation Australia CEO Ben Buckley

May 22, 2009 – 4:58 pm

Crikey Sports had the pleasure to talk to the man we all hope will deliver a World Cup to Australia — whether we win it or we host it or both.
Football Federation Australia CEO Ben Buckley has grand plans for the game but doesn’t think he’d be much chop with the round ball. And he [...]

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

April 2, 2009 – 12:26 pm

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 [...]

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