The Struggle Intensifies

 

Update

 

The Asian Championship looms as the Socceroos take on Kuwait with a full house sold out well before the game and a team of locals set to run through the Kuwaiti defence with all to the usual media blackout.  The local based players win easily.

 

Fear of the Middle East runs deep in the yellow underbelly of the government and Packielackeys who control the media.  The media has been given even more monopoly control by the government as they now can own TV, Pay TV, radio and sports. 

 

O’Neil resigns and now is the time a real football person takes over.

 

Australia with overseas based players loses to Kuwait in the heat of Kuwait and underlines the need for another national coach.  Arnold still cannot coach- he makes a good assistant but is useless as a coach.  He made all the mistakes of his previous stint with the now defunct Spirit.

 

The usual blackout by the ignorant government owned media continues.  Not a mention of the Central Coast v Newcastle game while saturation coverage is given of the packielackey game albeit a final with fewer than half the spectators that turned out to watch the football in Melboring!

 

The Ants of NZ can’t even attract 2000 at their games.  What are they doing in the A-League?  Their football is typical of the minnows in the World Game and only reduces the standard of the games of their opponents.  Plus they have the usual drooby rhetoric of ‘all those wogs playing and not a NZ side!’  It’s a world game do-dos! You know-with real competition-where the world’s top athletes play.  Bring on an Asian side in their place where football is appreciated and they are not fearful of competition.  Perth too stinks. It is sinking into salt mashes and cannot attract a crowd to the football. Let’s face facts, the country’s full of morons who are fearful of people from other nationalities- wogs, kinks, dagoes , rag-heads you name it.  This is the population controlled by a monopoly media who do not have appreciation of the art of football and who are fearful of world competition.  Can’t watch against those greasy dagoes now can we!

 

Melbourne Victory appears to finally have a side capable of competing in the A-League.  But watch this space as the bigots from the Melboring media and the ABC of Ignorance make their move to blackout the game and denigrate the football.

 

The morons at the ABC of Ignorance are at it again.  This time the claim is that there is only one football code that will interest those in Melbourne this weekend – rugby league.  No mention that Melbourne Victory with double the crowds will be playing Queensland in real football- the world variety!  Also the Telemoron is back to its usual with a blackout of football news.  Easy when they have the monopoly rights to all the media and own crappielackey!

 

What is really amazing is how the A-League continues to tolerate a team like the Ants with less than 2000 supporters who show contempt for the referees and bring the game into disrepute.  What is the point of having NZ in the competition when they aren’t even in our Confederation?  How can an Oceania side play in the Asian Club Championship in the very unlikely situation they manage a top two finish?  The Ants are a rubbish side and couldn’t win game in an Australian state league third division.  Get rid of them now and have a bye and save the expense of travel to a nation that cannot ever possibly succeed in a competitive sport such as football.

 

Dopey Arnold goofs again by subbing Popovich who scored what should have been the winning goal to allow Paraguay to draw 1-1 at the death in a friendly in Brisbane in front of 47 500.  We need a coach.  Can we beat Bahrain with this useless coach at the helm.  A loss will mean that Australia is not a seeded nation at the Asian Championship and could jeopardize our chances and force us to play unnecessary qualifiers in the Asian zones.

 

Australia defeat Bahrain 2-0 quite easily by scoring two great goals- one by an Aloisi slot into the bottom corner of the net and the other a spectacular overhead by Bresciano before a 36K crowd. Beauchamp started nervously but played very well as the game progressed.  His lack of regular match practice showed but he made some important tackles and dominated in the air.  The worry is that when the players went into the dressing room at half time they emerged to under-perform in the second half.  They were no longer able to score and the terrible refereeing and the rolling antics of the Bahrainis clearly put the team off. A good coach can turn a side around during the half time break with tactical switches and by motivating the players.  The Socceroos emerged jaded but still controlled the game easily that signaled their professionalism despite suspect tactical changes by Arnold.  The important thing is that we won!

 

Australia's interim coach Graham Arnold believes Wednesday night's qualifier against Bahrain has reinforced the team's confidence going into the Asian Cup finals - despite the Socceroos being unable to deliver the thumping victory many had anticipated

 

Meanwhile the pinko stinkoes from the ABC of Ignorance are at it again with a blanket ban on A-League results and previews in its National Radio all week.  Add this to the monopoly media who now is attempting top drive the last relatively independent paper the SMH into its government protected monopoly stable of the packielackeys and Murdock morons.  The government continues to offer a media monopoly to win favours for the next election. 

 

Soon there will be no coverage of the game in the media at all- not even the current practice of burying the reports in the fine print.  The Telemoron and Ausmoron continued all week to avoid reporting the games- no matter how many or few watch or attend the games.  They prefer their puny games that no one plays.  Easier to win that way,  After all  – can’t play ragheads!  They might terrorize us!

 

Meanwhile Melbourne lead the league and crush the Ants in NZ 4-0 and Newcastle stages a revival to win three on the trot against Adelaide in a thriller with Carle finally getting on the score sheet.  Butcher’s poor run of results with Sydney FC causes concern for its fans who want to be in the Asian Club Championships next year.  If Butcher loses this week against a struggling Perth then his number is up.  In football it’s either win or get the boot.  Butcher is on notice as is the squad. 

 

Sydney FC play poorly again and only manage a draw against Perth.  However, FC maintains that import fourth spot and still can make the Asian Club Championship. There was a  poor crowd of about 13 000 at this important game. 

 

Meanwhile the monopoly’s owned He-men of tiddleywimps  threaten employees of a hotel!  How courageous ! 

 

The AFL's international embarrassment over the Brendan Fevola scandal has deepened, with allegations two other players as well as the disgraced Carlton star threatened staff at an Irish nightclub.

And Fevola questioned the AFL's decision to boot him out of Australia's International Rules series in Ireland after he allegedly assaulted a barman while drunk in Galway on Sunday night.

 

It doesn’t matter what the TV commentators say about Merrick and British football- Melbourne Victory prove that it’s noyt where you comes from that counts but how good you are.  Australia draw with Ghana1-1 . Australia played excellent attacking football throughout but were unable to score that decisive second goal and Ghana soon equalised in the second half.  But to the credit of the Socceroos they defended well with Kisnorbo having an outstanding game at the back.  Farina takes up the A-League position as coach of Queensland Roar…or is that Meow?. And the ABC of Ignorance doesn’t make a mention of the great play of the Socceroos.  But then what would the Hadbeens know about competition?

Australia and Ghana have drawn 1-1 in an international friendly at Loftus Road, London, with John Aloisi's first half penalty cancelled out by a second half Junior Agogo goal.

Australian line-up: Mark Schwarzer (gk), Brett Emerton, Patrick Kisnorbo, Craig Moore, Scott Chipperfield, Vince Grella, Jason Culina, Luke Wilkshire. Mile Sterjovski, Mark Bresciano, John Aloisi.

Substitutes: Michael Petkovic, Shane Stefanutto, Michael Beauchamp, Michael Thwaite, Kasey Wehrman, Ryan Griffiths, Brett Holman.

Melbourne win easily over the Ants and qualify for Asia.  Meanwhile the monopoly media who owns the tiddleywimp rights attack the 50 000 with outright lies about the behaviour of the crowd.  This abuse of government granted monopoly rights is typical of the corrupt government backed media in Australia.

“Channel Nine ran a story after the record-breaking night against Sydney with mobile phone footage of supporters singing and chanting "Come on Melbourne! Come on Melbourne!" and tried to pass it off as crowd violence. Who is it kidding? In all my years in the game, I've never seen a bigger beat-up.”

These bigotted media morons in the media monopoly and their wogball attacks on the fans typifies the attitude of the tiddleywimp packielackie brigade of cowards.  Cowards too scared of competition or all those wogs running about in the world.

“And last Tuesday, the Herald Sun ran a back-page story headlined "The Great Divide" alongside a picture showing Melbourne and Sydney fans separated by police. The funny thing was, the supporters in the photograph were smiling and laughing.”

This is typical of the boof-head coverage and the clutching at straws by these corrupt media barons in the country. 

The Socceroo draw Oman, Thailand and Iraq in the Asian Nations Cup.  Beaten before by Iraq under Arnold, the Socceroos must be cautious of its opponents and the effects of sweltering conditions in Bankock on the Socceroos European based players. 

The Asian Club Champions draw as taken place. 

AFC Champions League 2007 groups:

Group A: Al
Arabi (Kuwait), Al Wahda (UAE), Al Rayyan (Qatar), Al Zawra'a (Iraq)

Group B: Pakhtakor (Uzbekistan), Al Kuwait (Kuwait), Al Hilal (Saudi Arabia), Esteghlal (Iran)

Group C: Al
Karama (Syria), Neftch (Uzbekistan), Al Najaf (Iraq), Al Sadd (Qatar)

Group D: Al Ain (UAE), Al Ittihad (Syria), Sepahan (Iran), Al Shabab (Saudi Arabia)

Group E: Urawa Reds (Japan), Sydney FC (Australia), Shanghai Shenhua (China), Persik Kediri (Indonesia)

Group F: Bangkok University (Thailand), Kawasaki Frontale (Japan), Arema Malang (Indonesia), Chunnam Dragons (Korea)

Group G: Adelaide United (Australia), Dong Tam Long An (Vietnam), Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma (Korea), Shandong Luneng (China)

 

Sydney FC face stiff opposition against the Urawa Reds as well as a difficult task against Shanghai.  This professional league has the potential to rival the top clubs in the world as the Asian powerhouse continues to motors along.  Adeliade United also faces stiff opposition in Chunma and Shandong. 

From that source of all information in the modern world:

The Urawa Reds (和レッズ, Urawa Rezzu?), or Urawa Red Diamonds (和レッドダイヤモンズ, Urawa Reddo Daiyamonzu?) are one of the most popular football clubs in the J.LEAGUE. Its hometown is the city of Saitama, Saitama. The club began as the company team of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries that played in the Japan Soccer League, and the club name comes from the red logo of Mitsubishi, whose name means three diamonds.

Urawa has two home stadiums, Urawa Komaba Stadium and Saitama Stadium 2002 (FIFA World Cup 2002 venue). The club is also notable in that former Feyenoord midfielder Shinji Ono began his professional career playing for Urawa. Ono returned for the 2006 season for a second stint with the club.

One has to again wonder about the boards of Australian corporations when presented with this opportunity to lift their profile in Asia and still they fail to support Sydney FC.  Meanwhile Farina’s Queensland are a flop losing to the Ants and this further highlights that as a coach he is tactically naïve.  Roar played longballs poked through the centre against a tall defence that has stuggled all year failed to yield a result.  It was obvious after ten muinutes that the tactic was flawed and yet Farina insisted on this approach.  Leaving Reinaldo off the team until the last 20 minutes shows he hasn’t a clue.  He may be a Queenslander and have his heart in the game but he falls into the Arnold mold of the tactically inept. 

Sitting in Darlinghurst Sydney on Wednesday at Starbucks that great US capitalist dream before the finals games between FC and Newcastle and got a Telemoron to have with my coffee as I watched the passing parade and lo and behold not a mention of the the vital finals game.  Had to return it to the counter and said “No sport what a crap paper!”  The serverette behind the counter looked bemused and then said “Yeah, no decent sport in that crap paper and offer me a copy of her Four Four Two”. 

FC win against Newcastle in the first leg of the finals with a 2-1 score.  Newcastle now have the difficult task to defend and not conceed a goal in the return leg as well as needing to win.  Meanwhile the massive Australian media competition and all three helicopters were in the sky watching the Australia Day celebrations.  The way ‘butter fingers’ Covic plays FC are a good chance to advance to the next stage.  Time will tell.

Newcastle progress after two silly yellow cards by Brosque left FC with 10 men against an inform Newcastle.  Butcher takes off Ruden and Carney the main hope from a set play in a rather curious tactic that fails to lead to a goal.  FC now look to the Asian Club Championship to find their form again.  Too many injuries, too much internal strife, a coach intent on defence and mongrel  and  team of enormous heart bows out of the champioship.

A naïve Socceroo teams deleted of key stars mount wave after wave of attacks and are hit on the counter by a clinical Denmark to go down 3-1 in a friendly in London.  Is this performance the result of an over-optimistic coach who got the tactics wrong and a team forced to put up with sub-standard refereeing or were the Socceroos simply outplayed by a superior battled hardened Denmark?  Why did Dopey use a Butcher system that clearly failed for FC? Let’s hope there is an improvement before the Asian Cup or we will have difficulty getting through to the semi-finals.

Newcastle fail at the penalty spot to let Adelaide progress to the Grand Final.  Three shots to the bottom left hand corner and all too predictable about the choice of the spot  blemishes an otherwise excellent tactical display by Newcastle.  This was despite the disappointing support for Adelaide with half empty stands and only 14 000, a mere fraction of Newcastle’s support last week against FC.  Adelaide now get two goes at the Asian Championships.

 

 

GROUP E

E1

URAWA RED DIAMONDS (JPN)

E2

SYDNEY FC (AUS)

E3

SHANGHAI SHENHUA (CHN)

E4

PERSIK KEDIRI (INA)

Day/Date

No.

Match

Kick-Off

Venue

07/03/2007 (Wednesday)

1

E1

URAWA RED DIAMONDS (JPN)

vs

PERSIK KEDIRI (INA)

E4

2

E3

SHANGHAI SHENHUA (CHN)

vs

SYDNEY FC (AUS)

E2

21/03/2007 (Wednesday)

3

E4

PERSIK KEDIRI (INA)

vs

SHANGHAI SHENHUA (CHN)

E3

4

E2

SYDNEY FC (AUS)

vs

URAWA RED DIAMONDS (JPN)

E1

11/04/2007 (Wednesday)

5

E4

PERSIK KEDIRI (INA)

vs

SYDNEY FC (AUS)

E2

6

E1

URAWA RED DIAMONDS (JPN)

vs

SHANGHAI SHENHUA (CHN)

E3

25/04/2007 (Wednesday)

7

E3

SHANGHAI SHENHUA (CHN)

vs

URAWA RED DIAMONDS (JPN)

E1

8

E2

SYDNEY FC (AUS)

vs

PERSIK KEDIRI (INA)

E4

09/05/2007 (Wednesday)

9

E4

PERSIK KEDIRI (INA)

vs

URAWA RED DIAMONDS (JPN)

E1

10

E2

SYDNEY FC (AUS)

vs

SHANGHAI SHENHUA (CHN)

E3

23/05/2007 (Wednesday)

11

E1

URAWA RED DIAMONDS (JPN)

vs

SYDNEY FC (AUS)

E2

12

E3

SHANGHAI SHENHUA (CHN)

vs

PERSIK KEDIRI (INA)

E4


 

GROUP G

G1

ADELAIDE UNITED FC (AUS)

G2

GACH DONG TAM LONG AN FC (VIE)

G3

SEONGNAM ILHWA (KOR)

G4

SHANDONG LUNENG TAISHAN (CHN)

Day/Date

No.

Match

Kick-Off

Venue

07/03/2007 (Wednesday)

1

G1

ADELAIDE UNITED FC (AUS)

vs

SHANDONG LUNENG TAISHAN (CHN)

G4

2

G3

SEONGNAM ILHWA (KOR)

vs

GACH DONG TAM LONG AN FC (VIE)

G2

21/03/2007 (Wednesday)

3

G4

SHANDONG LUNENG TAISHAN (CHN)

vs

SEONGNAM ILHWA (KOR)

G3

4

G2

GACH DONG TAM LONG AN FC (VIE)

vs

ADELAIDE UNITED FC (AUS)

G1

11/04/2007 (Wednesday)

5

G4

SHANDONG LUNENG TAISHAN (CHN)

vs

GACH DONG TAM LONG AN FC (VIE)

G2

6

G1

ADELAIDE UNITED FC (AUS)

vs

SEONGNAM ILHWA (KOR)

G3

25/04/2007 (Wednesday)

7

G2

GACH DONG TAM LONG AN FC (VIE)

vs

SHANDONG LUNENG TAISHAN (CHN)

G4

8

G3

SEONGNAM ILHWA (KOR)

vs

ADELAIDE UNITED FC (AUS)

G1

09/05/2007 (Wednesday)

9

G4

SHANDONG LUNENG TAISHAN (CHN)

vs

ADELAIDE UNITED FC (AUS)

G1

10

G2

GACH DONG TAM LONG AN FC (VIE)

vs

SEONGNAM ILHWA (KOR)

G3

23/05/2007 (Wednesday)

11

G1

ADELAIDE UNITED FC (AUS)

vs

GACH DONG TAM LONG AN FC (VIE)

G2

12

G3

SEONGNAM ILHWA (KOR)

vs

SHANDONG LUNENG TAISHAN (CHN)

G4

 

Melbourne crush Adelaide in the Grand Final with five from Archie and finish 6-0 to an Adelaide with a loud mouth coach in the stands with little to say.  The 6-0 win in front of 55 000 heralds a team that looks ahead to Asian Championship Cup.  But for now Adelaide and FC continue the adventure.  Kosmina is pushed and resigns after the mouth explosions by his team against the referee who btw was voted the 7th best referee in the World Cup and best in Asia.  Kosmina fails all objectivity tests and this is his failing as a coach.

 

Shenhua, who finished second in last year's Chinese Super League, have just merged with Shanghai United. Zhu Jun, the owner of United, which finished seventh last season, bought out Shenhua but kept the name.

One of the results of the merger is that Shenhua will now be coached by former United coach, Uruguayan Osvaldo Gimenez, who was closely involved with the Uruguay team that stopped the Socceroos from qualifying for the 2002 World Cup.

Gimenez was the Uruguayan Football Federation's sports manager at the time and it was he who apologised for fans having spat on Socceroos players when they arrived at Montevideo airport.”

So looks like a difficult first game.  Will Cullina be able to cope against such an experience and tactically aware coach?

Adelaide are watched by over 21 million in China as they play Shandong in front of a small  but loyal following.  Where is BHP who makes so much money in China?  Is it because the Board is Tiddleywimps and still have the chink mentality?  Why is it that the Ausmoron ignores the game ? 

Shandong prove too strong for Adelaide who shoots itself in the foot again, this time by an own goal.  Players still half asleep after the break and beaten by a simple tactic- come out firing!  Shandong win 1-0.

FC flies the flag with fantastic goals and desperate defence in the second half.  Shanghai loses at home and sings the Blues. Cullina passes the first test and FC look like a side capable of competing for the Prize.

 

As usual the packielackey media blacks out news about the big match with Urawa Red.  The Reds have a band of travelling supporters arriving here for the first Asian Champions Cup to be held in Sydney. FC’s great performance against Shanghai sets the stage for what will be the most important game in the group.  Sydney needs to win to avoid having to a win in the last game of the group away to the Red Diamonds. If Cullina goes for a defensive approach he will put FC out of the Championship.  FC simply must win this game to have a decent chance of progressing from the group.

 

The Red Diamonds are favoured to win the Championship and are expected to win handsomely in Sydney.  It is likely that their coach will be looking for a cautious start to the game.  Star striker Washington with 26 goals in 26 appearances last year for the Red Diamonds gives penetration up front, something that was missing for Shanghai.  It is likely that they will approach the game with a packed mid-field and a defensive lineup looking for the long penetrating to Washington who is will seek opportunities to go down around the danger zone to win set pieces.

Meanwhile, corporate Australia who rely so heavily on exports to Japan fail to take this opportunity to support FC and ignore the building of football in Australia and Asia.  Scratch a board member on RIO, BHP BILLITON or WOODSIDE and find the mentality of the packielakey –tiddleywimp brigade of buffoons.  Where are these companies?  With such huge exports to Japan they miss the opportunity.  Bored of bigots and their Toff’s Tosses? They have made no attempt to support football and develop the game in either in Australia, Asia, Africa or South America where they operate.

 

The Australian media snubs the Japanese as they arrive in Australia for the Asian Championships.  The official government media, the ABC of Ignorance also blackouts coverage of Uruwa Reds. Again scratch and Australian corporation board member who trades with the Japanese or any member of the media be it Ausmoron, Telemoron, Packielackey, Tiddleywimp or ABC of Ignorance and find a bigot.  The mentality of this nepotistic monopoly media and crony corporate boards is there for all to see. And all despite the fact that football i.e. soccer has more players than all their insignificant footballs variants combined. 

 

FC survive a great game of football ending 2-2.  Taking adavantage of the jet lag of the Japanese, FC score early against a shell shocked Urawa Diamonds.  FC follow this with penalty after Carney is brought down in the box.  FC looked in complete control early in the game.  The Reds then go through the gears and lift the pace to claw a goal back before the second half.  In the second half the waves of Urawa get an early goal through a Bolton fumble.  FC are forced to play on the counter attack. Sydney FC 2 (Carney 1, Talay 23p) Urawa Red Diamonds 2 (Ponte 30, Nagai 55) 

Meanwhile Adelaide win easily against Dong Tam despite a fastastic goalkeeping effort by their Brazilian keeper Santos.  If only FC had a quality keeper like Santos instead of the Bolton Choker.  Overall FC show they have the quality to matchh it with the best.  Urawa though are in control and the final game against FC may prove crucial to deciding the Group of Death.

 

The pinko-stinko media monopoly don’t even report the score in the morning papers!  After all they are just all chinks and slope-heads aren’t they?