- 21. Quality is up but falling crowds leave A-League relying on national team
- (Stories)
- Embed from Getty Images With football improving at all levels the FFA need a strong Australia showing at the World Cup to boost interest – just like the Matildas have done for the W-League 5 April ...
- Created on 05 April 2018
- 22. The world-class sports stars who struggled to carve out a football career
- (Stories)
- ... one up and improves one’s reflexes in a different way to soccer.” Former Woolwich Arsenal defender Jimmy Jackson had once been an excellent Australian Rules footballer before making the leap to Associatio ...
- Created on 22 March 2018
- 23. The rise in multiple nationalities leaves players with a tough decision
- (Stories)
- ... my wife is Italian-Australian. If this sounds a tad extreme, at a recent parenting class I attended one new baby would be eligible for Australia, Portugal and the Czech Republic, while another would have ...
- Created on 14 December 2017
- 24. From the archive ~ Modern football doesn’t know the meaning of summer break
- (Stories)
- ... in August. Yes, there’d be mention of the Australian season in order to keep the pools going for a couple of months but it wasn’t like anyone over here was really interested in how Tarrawanna or Swan United ...
- Created on 05 June 2017
- 25. Football’s Secret Trade: How the player transfer market was infiltrated
- (General)
- ... and a fascinating chapter on the ultimately unsuccessful efforts of Mark Goddard, an Australian FIFA official, to clean up the transfer system a decade ago (he resigned in disgust last summer). But while ...
- Created on 10 May 2017
- 26. MacDou-GOAL! The Ted MacDougall story by Neil Vacher and Ted MacDougall
- (Players)
- ... in Bournemouth for post-career income and every summer his employers are happy for him to travel to play in South Africa, Australia and the US for extra money. By his own account MacDougall was a box ...
- Created on 21 March 2017
- 27. Retirement is a footballer’s toughest decision at any level of the game
- (Stories)
- ... that our lithe Chilean midfielder was 67, and that was after we had the annual chance to say we had come up against a genuine World Cup veteran – Ernie Campbell, also now 67, who played for Australia against ...
- Created on 18 January 2017
- 28. Classic match ~ West Bromwich Albion 2-3 Leicester, Division One, 1995
- (Videos)
- ... with three minutes remaining, but Leicester held on for the win. Making his debut in goal for Leicester was the Australian Zeljko Kalac, whose career at Filbert Street was short-lived but eventful. Signed ...
- Created on 04 November 2016
- 29. From the archive: The cynicism and incompetence of the 1986 World Cup
- (Stories)
- ... FIFA. One way to resolve this could be to go back to 16 teams, but have more places (maybe five or six) conditional on play-offs between countries from different zones, as with Australia v Scotland. Tha ...
- Created on 24 October 2016
- 30. Weekly Howl 07-10-16
- (2016)
- ... ous "Raising The Flag" routine which won the first-ever contest for pole-dancing legend Lilian "Stoneface" Iskandar. Cameron Carter --- from Mike Ticher "A koala pitch invasion in Australia – fair ...
- Created on 07 October 2016
- 31. Friendlies don’t need hype to make them worthwhile
- (Stories)
- ... Cup – a series of friendlies hawking Champions League contenders across China, Australia and the US. It’s an inevitable development of the four-team, two-day, polyglot pre-season tournaments once hoste ...
- Created on 08 August 2016
- 32. Under-pressure Wilmots needs more flexible tactics
- (Stories)
- ... recalled from Montreal Impact following a spate of injuries, hadn’t played for Belgium since 2011 (save for 12 minutes in a friendly against Australia in 2014). He acquitted himself reasonably well at ...
- Created on 18 June 2016
- 33. Legacy
- (Players)
- ... a number of A-League clubs approached the midfielder offering him the chance to finish his playing career in Australia. But, as he reveals in Legacy, he’d already snubbed an earlier return to his homeland ...
- Created on 13 April 2016
- 34. East Midlands derby test for novice managers
- (March 2016)
- ... the Forest game and sit in the stands (rather than the dugout, as some thought) then jet off to the Middle East for the World Cup qualifiers against Bangladesh and Australia later this month. The latter ...
- Created on 18 March 2016
- 35. Weekly Howl 26-06-15
- (2015)
- ... p stage this week, it seems they have already acheived their target. --- Badge of the week ~ Logan Lightning FC, Australia There’s something missing here isn’t there? We know the team hail from Log ...
- Created on 26 June 2015
- 36. Weekly Howl 19-06-15
- (2015)
- ... . --- Badge of the week ~ Dandenong Thunder SC, Australia An old aboriginal myth (are there any new myths actually? Apart from the wash’n’go myth – you cannot just wash and go, I did it once and with ...
- Created on 19 June 2015
- 37. Weekly Howl 22-05-15
- (2015)
- ... --- One thing we don’t see enough of football is people falling off podiums during trophy celebrations. So well done, Frank Lowy, president of the Australian FA. --- Also in the news this week ...
- Created on 27 May 2015
- 38. Weekly Howl 20-02-15
- (2015)
- ... by a football? Here’s just the product for you.” --- Tips from Stan Collymore after he was suspended by BT Sport for criticising Rangers fans. --- from Mike Ticher “Australia are not taking ...
- Created on 25 February 2015
- 39. Weekly Howl 26-09-14
- (2014)
- ... --- from Mike Ticher "Australia's A-League has launched an ambitious promotion for its new season in which it sits former players in a big leather chair under the glare of a single lamp and asks them: 'Wh ...
- Created on 02 October 2014
- 40. WSC contributors' World Cup predictions update
- (World Cup 2014)
- ... justifying being tipped by Pelé to do well, which Joel Sked pointed out wasn't appreciated, and Alexis Sánchez is living up to his status as poster boy in his home country. According to Mike Ticher, Au ...
- Created on 27 June 2014
