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Japan Wins: celebrates with 5-0 demolition of Saudi Arabia Japan celebrated their qualification into the quarter finals of the Asian Cup with an emphatic 5-0 win over 2007 finalists Saudi Arabia.  The win caps off a miserable campaign for the Saudis who lost every single game and comes as some relief to the Japanese who had to rely on last ...

It’s about time I gave everyone an update on how the Asian Cup is going.  It takes a certain dedicatation to watch as much terrible football as I do and at weird hours of the night too.  And because I’ve had all this time off work due to the floods, it’s meant that I’ve been able to stay up at ...

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 ...

The Brisbane Roar had their third game on the road in a row this weekend.  This time it was a return to the SFS to play the league’s defending champions Sydney FC.  Last week Sydney copped an absoluting hiding from the Mariners 4-0 and so the Roar were mindful that they could be dangerous like a wounded lion.  Also, the ...