Articles tagged with "a-league"
J-League vs K-League, The Future of the All-Star Game
By Daryl | February 22nd, 2008All-Star games are going international. The traditional J-League exhibition game between fan-selected East and West teams is being replaced by a J-League All-Stars XI ...
A-League Finals > MLS Playoffs
By Daryl | February 13th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh6CcqV4wi4[/youtube] The A-League finals (or playoffs, if you prefer) continue to produce some great football. There was Reinaldo's excellent winning goal for Queensland Roar in the ...
The A-League: Great Goals, Wacky Playoff System
By Daryl | February 9th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWB_1NeSKps[/youtube] Australians are lovely people, and their A-League is getting better all the time. But their playoff system is batshit crazy. First enjoy the action from Queensland ...
Daily Dose: 1.25.08
By Martha | January 25th, 2008Things to read as your grandma gets arrested for not pulling up in the McDonald's drivethru: "All soccer, all the time" for Jozy Altidore. (NYX Goal ...
A Wild Final Day in Australia
By Martha | January 20th, 2008[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=WVRERdAuK7I[/youtube] When the final day of the A-League season started, four teams were level on points at the top of the table, and the title was ...
Central Coast Mariners 4-5 Sydney FC, an Instant A-League Classic
By Daryl | December 23rd, 2007"It was the greatest advertisement for football in the A-League's three-year history," said said The Sunday Morning Herald in Australia. And they're not wrong. Fledgling ...
Seventeen-year-old Will Get $100 if he Nutmegs Beckham
By Laurie | November 26th, 2007Here's the best story I've seen out of Australia so far: "Nikolas Tsattalios earns almost $600 a week, just collected his P-plates and last ...
'He's clocked him one in the jewels'
By Bob | October 8th, 2007[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=swOokQZKbM8[/youtube] I was going to do a little write up of the incident above in which Joel Griffiths of the Australian club Newcastle Jets takes his ...
Weekend Watch: Beware of Flying Frenchmen
By Daryl | September 7th, 2007The world of domestic football takes a back seat to its international cousin this weekend. But not everywhere. You can still get your domestic ya-yas ...
Robbie Fowler Going Down Under
By Daryl | July 15th, 2007[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgpIqyvVy4w[/youtube] Seems that God is no longer waiting idly by the phone, as the good people at Sydney FC are prepared to make him an offer. ...
That's not a striker, that's a striker.
By Brian | July 9th, 2007Okay, so it's a lame play on Crocodile Dundee. I'm sure Aussies really appreciate it, but look at the bright side, I could ...
The A-League is starting to resemble a Retirement Home
By Bob | October 30th, 2006Attention all footballers 40 years and older not named Teddy Sheringham. Just because your talents have waned and Father Time is not on your ...
This is worth a six-game ban?
By Bob | October 18th, 2006Yesterday, I wrote about the choking incident that occurred on the sidelines of a match between Adelaide United and Melbourne Victory in Australia's A-League. ...
A Name to Remember: Fred
By Bob | September 6th, 2006It was only a couple of months ago that we encountered a man named Fred who played and scored for Brazil in the World Cup. ...
Fan for a Match: Things are Starting to Get Ugly
By Bob | September 5th, 2006When we started adopting teams to support for our regular feature Fan for a Match we thought it was going to be a fun. ...
Fan for a Match: Adelaide United
By Bob | August 31st, 2006This week's Fan for a Match selection takes us to the mysterious land of Australian soccer where the big news today is that Dwight Yorke ...
Spain's La Liga Preview
By Bob | August 25th, 2006The kids in Spain will kick off their domestic league games this weekend and we've been scouring the cyberworld to compile a definitive guide to ...
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