The Struggle
Intensifies
The Asian Championship looms as the Socceroos take on
Fear of the
O’Neil resigns and
now is the time a real football person takes over.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
“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 (浦和レッズ Urawa Rezzu?),
or Urawa Red Diamonds (浦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.
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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.
As usual the packielackey media blacks out news about the
big match with
The Red Diamonds are favoured to win the Championship and are expected to win handsomely
in
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
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?