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The weird and turbulent history of football in Australia

ADELAIDE UNITED 1 BRISBANE ROAR 2 PERTH GLORY 4 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 2 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 1 MELBOURNE HEART 1 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 1 SYDNEY FC 0 MELBOURNE VICTORY 1 NEWCASTLE JETS 2 The World Cup Draw The draw for the Group Stage of the World Cup was held on the weekend.  Prior to Saturday, it was hoped that the Socceroos ...

SYDNEY FC 2 NEWCASTLE JETS 0 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 1 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 1 MELBOURNE VICTORY 1 MELBOURNE HEART 1 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 1 BRISBANE ROAR 2 ADELAIDE UNITED 3 PERTH GLORY 1 Vacancy It’s been an eventful week of football in Australia.  The opening round of the season saw a record 100,000+ fans in attendance and tv ratings continuing to ...

For a football tournament that I went into with some pretty low expectations, I derived a surprising amount of entertainment from the 2011 Asian Cup. Firstly, both Japan and Australia totally cleaned up the rest of Asia, piling on big scores and playing entertaining games throughout the tournament.  Japan played no less than four games where a last minute goal ...

The premiere world footballing competition, the AFC Asian Cup begins this weekend.  The competition features sixteen of Asia’s best footballing nations and is held every four years.  The defending champions of the competition are Iraq who beat Saudi Arabia in the final of the 2007 competition. Australia are perennial favourites to win the tournament but they did such a shit ...

Holy sh- What the hell just happened?  🙁 What a goddamn hiding that was.  Hopefully we can put the pieces back together for Ghana in a weeks time. On a side note, it was pretty cool to use social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to see everybody’s reaction on The FAT Website live as the game unfolded.

Its been a weird sort of week in Brisbane.  It started raining about ten days ago and it hasn’t really stopped.  In fact, I’m looking out the window now and its still going. Typical then that it should happen on a week where we actually had some plans to go out a bunch of times.  Firstly, the Asian Cup Qualifier ...