Ever Wondered Why So Many Australian Footballers Play Overseas?
And the
media blackout continues but this tournament will be shown free-to-air.
The
Socceroo squad for Dubai
is:
AUSTRALIA:
Z Kalac (cpt), S Colosimo, H Foxe, S Laybutt, T Vidmar, B Emerton, K Wehrman (S
Lovell 72), J Skoko, D Tiatto, J Aloisi (M Curcija 60), P Agostino (S
Chipperfield 66)
KUWAIT: O Husain, J Mubarak, N Alshammaty, H Al Khudary, B Alhalabeej, S
Alazmi, A Almutairi, B Abdulla (A Marza 69), J Al Wahoudi (E Saed 74), F
Almajdi, N Alothman (N Asel 64)
Australia
win 1-0 against Kuwait, with an Aloisi goal in the second half.
Australia
lose 4-2 against South Korea with Agostino netting two to set up what should
have been an easy win.
The opening of the football season
and the media blackout continues.
The
‘Australian’ a mudoch/tiddleywimp paper had an article about the insipid
Olyroos in their performances against Italy and Nigeria to discuss the opening
of the football season. No mention that
the Italians were the core of AC Milan and Italy delayed Series A kick-off to
allow the team maximum possible preparation.
The
Olyroos in fact played very well and were unlucky not to win on the horrendous
surface. Great goalkeeping saved the
day for the Italians.
But
then, anyone who considers tiddleywimps a competitive sport is a joke!
The
season opened with a small crowd on a field that made beach soccer look to a
billiard surface. It made Belmore Park
look great! Then followed the Wolves
game against Perth, and what a pathetic surface! The same nongs laid another egg!
On a very sad note the great Aboriginal football player and supporter
Charlie Perkins died today, and his ghost may be heard throughout the land.
From the newsgroup a football fan says:
“Football
lost a great advocate with the death this morning
of
Charlie Perkins.
I
only heard of it late this afternoon on the walk home
from
work as a radio news item.
I
was glad to have the chance to see Charlie in a football
context
when I was at the Expo in Sydney in 1999.
I think
he
enjoyed his involvement with ordinary football fans who
saw
him as a footballer and friend of football sometimes
outside
the context of his important profile in indigenous
issues.
But
this aspect of his life should not be forgotten by
football
fans either, as the energy, passion, and drive he
brought
into our game was the same energy, passion, and
drive
that fuelled his life-long involvement with aboriginal
and
islander issues.
We
knew you weren't going to live forever Charlie, but
it
still doesn't make your death easier to come to
terms
with. I'm sure at times he was a total
bastard to deal
with,
but if there was a person in Oz who had more reason
to
be cranky about issues fundamental to creating
a
decent and honourable Australia, I'd be keen to know
who
he or she is. That football remained in
his focus is
to
our benefit, and I for one am grateful we had such a
champion
of the game.
Vale Charlie Perkins.”
The Joker continues with the
anti-competitive practice this time putting a highlights program onto
free-to-air 12.30 at night so all the young players have the ability to watch
and support football. Meanwhile all
other highlights are banned from free-to-air!
Why else would the joker buy the rights if not to stop public access so
that tiddleywimps maintains its dominance over the free-to-air?
Now the varanus (lack of)
varius pianna crawls out of its hole and buys the World Cup rights- for the
same purpose: to restrict coverage of football on the free-to-air monitor, so
it can maintain the effective monopoly of tiddleywimps and packielackey?
An excellent performance by the Socceroos sees
an easy 2-0 win over Scotland in pouring rain.
Australia 2 (Emerton 12', Zdrilic
66')
Scotland 0
AUSTRALIA:
Schwarzer (gk); Muscat, Murphy, Popovic, Lazaridis; Emerton, Skoko (Wehrman
75'), Okon [c], Tiatto (Burns 67'); Zdrilic (Zane 89'), Agostino (Sterjovski
46')
SCOTLAND:
Gould (gk); Weir (Elliott 46'), Boyd [c], O'Neill (Hendry 58'), Dailly; Burley
(Dickov 63'), Ferguson, Cameron (McCann 46'), Matteo; Hutchison, Dodds
Viduka, unlike the Ghoul was there in the dugout even though he was
injured. Meanwhile the Ghoul was glued
to the tele watching a repeat of ‘I’m a
wimpy weasel’ while the pixie sat on his shoulder and whispered into his ear.
As
one fan observes about packielackey:
“Why
does soccer persist in calling international matches 'Friendlies'? It has the connotations of making the game less
marketable. If you use the same logic 90% of ARL internationals would be
friendlies, not as the marketers of this nothing code would have us believe -
titanic battles on which the future of the free world rests.”
Especially their crappy packielackey ANZAC
test with the Kiwi minnows!
They didn’t even play packielackey then,
football was and still is soccer.
In the land where they think the Earth is flat and the Moon landing was
a hoax- Melbourne, the tiddleywimps media win the battle to see the demise of
the ‘Carlton Dagoes’ who play football.
In the end the Melbatoast goes soggy and the Joker with his tiddleywimp
entourage are exposed for what they are- a mixture of iron filings and
sulphuric acid.
Carlton will be remembered in football folklore for that great Grand
Final with South Melbourne that was much better than the FA Cup.
The
Wolves are set to play in the Oceania
Club Championships and the media has instituted a blackout. The Telmoron as usual ignores football. Even the local rag The Mercury (or is
that The Mercurochrome ) had only a small article buried deep in the
paper about the championship before the Wolves last home game against the
Kingz. A win will see the region become
a world focus, but here the media monopoly ignores the region’s greatest
tourist asset.
The
Wolves emerge as Oceania Champions, without even a mention in the
packielackey Nine Network, although the
Mechurochrome did cover the games quite well to the local town.
Now Northern Spirit will
not only have a cricket pitch in the middle of the ground they play on but it
is about to be trampled by a tiddleywimps exhibition game which undoubtedly
will turn the surface into a cow paddock that will see random bounces of the
ball for the rest of the season. The
tiddleywimps are bankrolling an incursion into the traditional Northern Suburbs
football area in an attempt to turn a game of Victorians Rules into an
Australia wide game such as football.
With all their millions, their game of tiddleywimps will always be nth
rate as far as football is concerned.
Football is the only truly competitive code. Better a game of football with 200 spectators than an nth- rated
bore bankrolled by a monopoly media.
While on the Spirit, Arnold has resigned as the best team on paper
languishes at the bottom of the table.
Arnold is about to help the Socceroos qualify as Assistant Coach to
Farina. Let’s hope Farina knows what he
is doing hiring an assistant who appears to be the worst coach in the league. The other coaches of teams near the foot of
the table have spent a fraction what Arnold did. However Arnold was a Socceroo and played professionally in Europe
so he might bring some valuable experience to the team. His loyalty to Australia and his thirst for
football is unquestioned.
Spirit was a team that attracted 18 000 to its games now have only 5 000
loyal supporters and are without a decent ground to play on. Things have turned so bad that the Spirit
lost to the bottom club at home.
The Ladder
|
Team |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
P |
|
South Melbourne |
18 |
12 |
5 |
1 |
36 |
10 |
41 |
|
Sydney Olympic |
18 |
11 |
3 |
4 |
32 |
18 |
36 |
|
Perth Glory |
18 |
10 |
5 |
3 |
42 |
18 |
35 |
|
Wollongong Wolves |
16 |
10 |
4 |
2 |
34 |
18 |
34 |
|
Marconi Stallions |
18 |
9 |
5 |
4 |
28 |
19 |
32 |
|
Melbourne Knights |
17 |
8 |
3 |
6 |
32 |
27 |
27 |
|
Sydney United |
18 |
7 |
5 |
6 |
25 |
31 |
26 |
|
Parramatta Power |
18 |
8 |
1 |
9 |
28 |
27 |
25 |
|
Adelaide City Force |
17 |
7 |
2 |
8 |
28 |
33 |
23 |
|
Kingz FC |
18 |
6 |
4 |
8 |
25 |
28 |
22 |
|
Canberra Cosmos |
17 |
6 |
3 |
8 |
28 |
28 |
21 |
|
Brisbane Strikers |
18 |
4 |
5 |
8 |
29 |
32 |
20 |
|
Northern Spirit |
17 |
5 |
4 |
8 |
19 |
20 |
19 |
|
Newcastle United |
18 |
4 |
7 |
7 |
15 |
28 |
19 |
|
Eastern Pride |
18 |
3 |
4 |
11 |
20 |
30 |
13 |
|
Carlton |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
This is a tragedy for what was
the club of the best potential and beginning in the league.
|
ROUND 18 |
09-02-2001 |
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Cautions: |
Enes 7', Mendez 27' (NS), Fak 24' (EP). |
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Red Cards: |
Gabriel Mendez 78' (NS) |
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Referee: |
Peter Green |
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Crowd: |
2,780 |
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Bring on Colombia!
Viva la football!
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