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And
without doubt the small p’s of penguin coverage of
the Australian football final was one that was continually interrupted
mid-action and the plug pulled before the trophy was awarded all which just
proves the point: effective monopoly media blackout. Channel 7 used its monopoly power to cast
football i.e. soccer in a negative light by having a coverage that was
constantly interrupted with
advertisements and that also failed to show the lifting of the trophy! No wonder WA wanted and approved secession!
Government
hasn’t changed. It continues to impose a
media monopoly on Australia through the mechanism of selectively issuing
licenses only to its favourites. This is a favoured method of the bureaucratic
elite and dates back many years: where King Edward III granted monopoly power
to the Merchants of Staples creating the mercantilism of the bureaucratic
elite, And in time honoured tradition
soon used their privileged position to raise prices and ban innovation. The parlous state of Australia’s media can be
seen in that light.
“PERTH, Australia, June 1 (AFP) - Western Australian glamour side Perth
Glory ended a finals hoodoo here Sunday when they beat Sydney´s
Olympic Sharks 2-0 before a near sell-out crowd of almost 40,000 in the
Australian National Soccer League grand final.
It was third time lucky for Glory, who lost to Wollongong Wolves in 2000 and
the Sharks last season in the showdowns.
Defender Jamie Harnwell gave Glory a 29th minute lead
with an explosive header from a corner.
Striker Damian Mori put the issue beyond doubt with a second goal in the 86th
minute.”
Talk about welshers! FIFA has
denied Oceania a place in the World Cup because South American and Asian teams
would lose half a place each. This was
after they granted Oceania admission to the World Cup. But talk about the morons in the government
media. The Dohbohs. The fat what’sname
on The Fat claims that “Barcelona crowds (at the tennis) are like rugby league
crowds!” What a JJJ Wacko! Is that not footballing
ignorance!
And all funded through a coercive taxation
system at 11 cents a day!
This is a :
A Subsidy for the ruling
elite?
B. Provider
of independent information?
Answer: A
gaggle of ding bats. Little
John-the-Machiavelli -look-a-like is just a perfect example of how the
Australian government has created instability and promotes centralized coercive
control over all facets of a subject’s life.
Result? In Australia: sub-optimal games; tiddleywimps/packielackey.
This is due
to:
1.
The superiority of packielackey to wogball
2.
The blackout by a government granted
media monopoly.
Answer:
Been thinking about the next World Cup.
Can the Socceroos qualify with a team worth more than the combined value
of all the tiddleywimp and packielackey
players throughout the world? Can Kool Kewell work wonders at
Liverpool?
Now for a friendly
against the Republic of Ireland to keep the team together and sure-up the defence.
John
Aloisi (Osasuna, Spain), Marco Bresciano (Parma,
Italy), Scott Chipperfield (FC Basel, Switzerland),
Brett Emerton (Blackburn
Rovers), Hayden Foxe (Portsmouth),
Vince Grella (Empoli,
Italy), Zeljko Kalac (Perugia, Italy), Harry Kewell (Liverpool), Stan Lazaridis
(Birmingham City), Craig Moore (Rangers, Scotland), Kevin Muscat (Rangers,
Scotland), Lucas Neill (Blackburn Rovers), Paul Okon
(Leeds United), Tony Popovic (Crystal Palace), Mark Schwarzer (Middlesbrough), Josip Skoko (Genclerbirligi,
Turkey), Danny Tiatto (Manchester City), Tony Vidmar (Cardiff City), Mark Viduka
(Leeds United).
The Socceroos have an
exciting midfield, excellent strikers, experienced defenders and top keepers
but they have too few games. This is the
second game on the long road to the qualifiers for Germany 2006.
It’s official
(again)! Football i.e. soccer is the
most played sport in Australia, even ahead of cricket, yet football continues to be blacked out by the
monopoly media owners. The Ausmoron
is at again. It claims that Beckham is a
‘gay’ icon.
One wonders
if Emerton is still able to run without falling over
under the weight of his big head, particularly given his mediocre performance
in the last World Cup Qualification series.
“Brett Emerton has told Socceroos coach Frank Farina he no
longer wants to travel all the way to
Speaking to The Australian just days before making his English Premier
League debut for Blackburn Rovers, the 24-year-old says he is only interested
in making the long flight home for games that he thinks matter.”
Now we have players
telling the coach what is important. It
is time for Farina to point out to Fat Head
that to qualify for the World Cup 2006 requires commitment to the national
cause and this involves travel. Football
at the highest level is played at national level in the World Cup not some
mid-table English Premier league side.
Fat Head can’t cut the meat and is set for mediocrity in a side coached
by a Scot who pressured the Australian traitor of all time Craig always-last-on-the-team-sheet
Johnson not to play for the Socceroos.
May he sleep
restlessly! Does he believe that
others should do the hard work to get to qualification status and that he can
waddle into the team for games he considers lucrative and beneficial to his
career. The
flick! Better a team of loyal players than one full of wannabe fat-heads!
The call
of the surf beats again as Emerton denies he made
such as claim and starts the season with a massive long-range effort into the
net to open the scoring for Blackburn.
“"I was misquoted, I
never said that, I would never call them Mickey Mouse games, that's ridiculous,"
he said. "I love representing my country, I always have and nothing's
going to change. I'll always be there for a World Cup qualifier."
"I hope people didn't take much notice of what was written. When you don't
say something and it appears in the paper, it's disappointing. People who know
me, know I would never say that."”
So who made the story
up and for what purpose? Are the English
media commentators running scared of Australia after they demolished Beckham,
Rooney and company? Wishful
thinking from
Australia’s Line up: Mark Schwarzer (gk); Lucas Neill, Hayden Foxe,
Tony Popovic, Stan Lazaridis,
Paul Okon (Vince Grella
67'), Marco Bresciano, Brett Emerton,
Danny Tiatto (Tony Vidmar
69'), Scott Chipperfield, Mark Viduka
(John Aloisi 78').
Goals - Viduka 49'
Cautions - Okon 47'
The full 18-man squad to
face Jamaica is:
Goalkeepers: Zeljko KALAC - Perugia, ITALY
Mark SCHWARZER - Middlesbrough, ENGLAND
Defenders: Steve LAYBUTT - Mouscron, BELGIUM
Jon MCKAIN - National Buchurest, ROMANIA
Ljubo MILICEVIC - FC Thun,
SWITZERLAND
Kevin MUSCAT - Millwall, ENGLAND
Lucas NEILL - Blackburn Rovers, ENGLAND
Tony VIDMAR - Cardiff City, WALES
Midfielders: Marco BRESCIANO -
Steve CORICA -
Scott CHIPPERFIELD - FC Basel,
Vince GRELLA -
Paul OKON -
Josip SKOKO -
Mile STERJOVSKI -
Strikers:
Brett HOLMAN -
Harry KEWELL -
Mark VIDUKA -
You know the World Cup has
started when the first qualifier is played:
The football season begins
this weekend and a search of the press finds not a mention of the
competition. The packielackie/tiddleywimp
blackout continues unabated. The Kingz lose a sponsor, and the competition gets no
television coverage. But for the record
the Wolves take on Sydney United on
Friday night.
Go the Wolves oooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
An amazing $15
million subsidy
goes into Australian football by the government with a spider web of strings. Why look a gift horse in the mouth? It will like all government subsidies lead to
inefficient outcomes and in an easy-come-easy-goes mentality. The subsidy may give a boost to football here
in
For Australian
football to succeed it needs to attract commercial support where businesses are
prepared to risk their money for mutual benefits. To really give football an
equal footing requires not only the tearing up of the existing government
granted monopoly rights to media outlets that have been used to blackout the
game, but also requires a complete freeing up of the media. A media where commercial broadcast licenses
are competitive rather than the current practice of monopoly grants controlled
by a dingbat bureaucracy requiring a kickback.
Tiddleywimps who by-the-way uses the Premier League symbol which
it acquired from true football are now attempting to stop competitive practice
by
“South Melbourne and
Australian Football League club Richmond Tigers have become embroiled in a war
of words surrounding the pair's similar marketing campaigns.
South kicked off its Blue & White, It's In Your Blood campaign a few
months ago while Richmond's Yellow and Black, It's In The Blood
membership campaign was launched on Monday outside the Melbourne Town Hall.
South chief executive Mark Patterson told the Herald Sun that his club was
considering legal action against the Tigers.
"We're fuming," Patterson said. "It's disappointing that one of
the major (AFL) clubs should be using the same campaign slogan."
"I'd suggest it's a bit sloppy they haven't done the research to find out
what was out there in the market before they launch it."
Illustrating
once again the anti-competitive practise of a group of scaredy-cats
with their mercantilist belief in monopoly control over the media in this unethical
attempt to blackout South. This is in
the city where they believe the Earth is flat- Melbourne.
Had the
misfortune to tune into TripleM, which no doubt stands for Malicious Monopoly
Media or perhaps Midget Minnow Morons where they denigrate the Matildas, with uncalled for attacks against the women of
the team who played to their best ability against world opposition. Competition
and world- competition are notions foreign to these government granted MMM
monopoly. MMMmorons
are granted their licenses by government to stifle competition in true
mercantilist con style! One thing is for
sure the Matilidas are better lookin’
than the droopy droobs at MMMmoron!
They claim, ” A team with the name Matildas, which is a(sic) sheep jammed in a bag does not bode well for
the future.”
So the
Triple morons attack an Australian icon to engage in what can be only described
as a cowardly wimpy attack on Australian footballing
women.
Anti-football
crony capitalism reaches new heights in
Limbo nimbo the comp goes
on!
Olyroos begin their campaign to qualify for
Olyroos face
Olyroos cruise past NZ with only a minor scare for a
few minutes in the qualifiers (3-1 aggregate).
Player of the tournament should go to Amad Elrich who has proved to be a
high quality player.
After the press denigration of the team as the ‘worst
ever’ they have booked their seats to
Also amazingly the game was shown on television though
rarely advertised and without due build-up in the monopoly media.
Meanwhile, the new administration in soccer still
doesn’t want to make the game truly competitive. Instead of how well a team performs on the
field as the criteria for admission to the top league with relegation and
promotion battles, they want a cheque book to
determine who plays. Let’s hope they
don’t follow down the road of the non-competitive other yukkie
codes of so-called ‘football’ in Australia, where teams are guaranteed a place
in the league and are limited on how much they can pay players.
OZEEEEEEEEE
The new administration has appointed a sports
administrator from rugby union. Whilst
this is fine in terms of sports administration the question must be asked “Does
he understand competitive sport?” The
likelihood is now a structured league without relegation or promotion
battles. This is how RU is
organized. It is a sport that has fewer
supporters than any league in
Kewell has become the Ghoul again refusing to play for
The Socceroos played well away from home with limited preparation and
travel time to record a creditable draw.
Kevin Muscat, Craig Moore (c), Tony Popovic,
Lucas Neill; Mile Sterjovski
(Steve Laybutt 92'),
Simon Colosimo, Marco Bresciano, Stan Lazaridis (Ahmad Elrich 28');
David Zdrilic (Nick Carle
83'), Paul Agostino (Tony Vidmar
62')
Cautions: Colosimo 19',
Referee: J Ruiz (
“The Australian Soccer Association (ASA) today confirmed it would invoke
Article 40 of FIFA Regulations
against two of the six players who were selected but did not travel to
Ironically the two players sanctioned were among the most loyal
Socceroos. The Ghoul’s feigned on-going
injury is responsible for his non-show and he is suspended so is expected to
play next the weekend after a long rest.
When I played, if a player even turned up late he was off the team and
had to wait at least four games before being considered for selection. This recipe was used to test the heart and
commitment of the player.
But with a board that has complete control of Australian football little
can be done if they make impractical decisions.
The boogeyman gives Emerton his just dessert-
a fluffed turnover and peach topping deny the lame Socceroo
a
Requiem for the Wolves
no soccer what a shocker
eeeooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
no soccer what a shocker
we want zz z zz
not zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
The media moron blackout continues with a total
blackout on football news for the finals series in the
The squad for the
Goalkeepers: Zeljko KALAC -
Mark SCHWARZER -
Defenders: Steve LAYBUTT - Royal Excelsior
Craig MOORE - Rangers,
Kevin
Lucas NEILL -
Tony POPOVIC -
Tony VIDMAR -
Midfielders: Marco BRESCIANO -
Tim CAHILL -
Scott CHIPPERFIELD - FC Basel,
Brett EMERTON -
Harry KEWELL -
Stan LAZARIDIS -
Paul OKON - KV Oostende,
Josip SKOKO -
Mile STERJOVSKI -
Strikers: Paul AGOSTINO - TSV 1860
John ALOISI -
Max VIERI -
Mark VIDUKA -
David ZDRILIC -
The team includes Max Vieri
who was born in
The new soccer chief and former RU executive turns up
to discuss the Ghoul’s form to find that he is a very small fish in a big
pond. The ghoul laughs at the former RU
executive for his naivety about the real world of football. Kewell says
“O'Neill said before leaving Australia that he hoped to have a meeting
with Kewell to discuss the chronic ankle injury Kewell says prevents him travelling longer than three hours
on a plane to play, but such a meeting is unlikely to take place.
"As far as I'm concerned I never wanted to meet anybody in the first
place. It's their way of trying to get through the back door to set something
up. I've told my agent (Bernie Mandic) to tell them I
only have one boss and his name is (Socceroo coach)
Frank Farina."
"I have a great relationship with him and he's always given me his full
support. As for what anybody else thinks, I couldn't care less. They can play
their silly little games. I'll just get on with playing football to the best of
my ability."
"If that's not good enough I'm more than happy to be thrown out of the
team. I'm not in a rage over anything the ASA does. To say otherwise is totally
wrong. I couldn't care less what they do."
Kewell didn't end his attack there, adding that he
hopes O'Neill sticks to his word that all players will be treated equally in
the future.
"I'm pleased to hear that. It's about time too," he said.
"Hopefully, when they say I'll be treated the same as everybody else, that
will include not sticking my image up on poxy looking
promotional posters and telling TV sponsors I'll be back for Micky Mouse matches that will help fill ASA's
pockets with money."
The grand final was played on what is
a typical ground in
Half time and
The game is one where players are trying to avoid
injury due to sharp turns on a greasy skidding pitch. The second half starts at top pace in the
shocking conditions but remains a game balanced on a knife-edge. Theo changes the lineup bringing on Fernando Rech (59min) for Ante Milicic,
taking off technical expertise and adding pace and grit. Para dominates midfield and control the
football in these atrocious conditions. Despotovski makes his final contribution and sits on the
rain sodden bench for the last ten minutes.
Fulltime 0-0
with 3 minutes stoppage time.
Extra
time: Perth win with a golden goal 1=0,
Mrdja
The Ausmoron takes control
of the board of a murdochpackielackey team confirming
the anticompetitive practices towards football in the past.
Sadly
“Four-time National
Soccer League champion