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Last year during the Asian Cup, I blogged about my incredulity at the sheer crappiness of India and China as footballing nations.  I argued that although both countries had a large portion of their population living in poverty who wouldn’t have the opportunities to develop in football, they both still have around 50-100 million people living in middle to upper ...

Like most secular and modern Western countries, Australia has a healthy distrust of right wing political parties.  In Australia, the major conservative party is the Liberal National Party (LNP).  The party’s members tend to have outdated social views on immigrants, gay people and women that are more aligned with your grandpa or that super Christian kid in your high school.  ...

NEWCASTLE JETS 1 BRISBANE ROAR 2 And so it has come to this.  The Roar beat Newcastle in a topsy turvey 2-1 encounter in which the men in Orange missed one penalty, hit the post three times and threw away a lead before finally squeaking home with a win to ensure that the Premiere’s Plate for the A-League season of ...

For the second Friday in a row, I’m going to repost something from Matt’s Facebook page.  This week it’s Brunei winning the Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy, an ASEAN youth league tournament.  They beat Indonesia in the final 2-0.  Brunei had such a vibrant support for its football side in 1999 during the height of the M-League.  They used to draw 40,000 ...

I first had someone recommend Brent’s Restaurant to me about four years ago.  I’ve heard about the place on and off since then.  The feedback is always positive but the place is so low key that I only really got around to making reservations for the place a fortnight ago. In hindsight, I wish I had made that call sooner.  ...

The Brisbane Roar drew at home 1-1 to 9th placed Adelaide United on the weekend.  Meanwhile the Central Coast Mariners lost 1-0 to Perth so with 2 games remaining, they hold a slender 2 point lead at the top of the table. But thats not important right now. Much more interesting is Roar striker Besart Berisha honouring his promise to ...

You would presume that after twenty six seasons and over four hundred episodes of Survivor, everything that could happen, has happened.  We’ve seen people voluntarily give up individual immunity (Erik the Ice Cream Scooper), get voted out when holding two immunity idols (James), fake the death of a relative so they could go on a reward trip (Johnny Fairplay).  You ...

On March 5th the Brisbane Roar played their first ever game of Asian Champions League football.  Australia clubs have generally struggled in the league except for one memorable run from Adelaide United who made the finals in 2008.  It was an exciting prospect to see how the Roar would go against Asia’s best, particularly if they could replicate the sort ...

Jen and I picked up some Lego to build for our relaxed Saturday afternoon.  We got the White House from the Lego Architecture range which is a series they’re doing on famous architectural works from past and present.  Other buildings in the series include the Empire State Building, the Burj Khalifa and the Sydney Opera House. I was pretty happy ...