All posts by Roy Hay
Don’t hold your breath waiting for corruption to be tackled
There have been a number of high profile cases or allegations of corruption in sport in recent weeks. Mike Newell, manager of Luton Town football club in England has just blown the whistle on the culture of bungs, bribes and …
A-League on a knife edge
Much as everyone connected with association football in Australia wants the new A-League to succeed the signs at present are not as rosy as the announcement of a
Just a suggestion
I am not sure SESA should be encouraging others to risk their money, but if you have the entrepreneurial spirit and you want to have a flutter in
Australia and the World Cup
Getting to the World Cup was hard enough, but now Australia faces the current and five times world champion, Brazil, European powerhouse Croatia and Asian champion Japan in
No butts
The Materazzi-Zidane incident may turn out to be a storm in a tea cup, but for the moment it is occupying hectares of space in the media around
Now I have seen it all
I thought I was a fairly seasoned traveller, but a day spent recovering after the Australia versus Brazil match in Munich in the 2006 World Cup in Germany
Vale George Best
Why do grown men weep for little boys who do not grow up? Do they weep for themselves? In a lifetime following football I can remember few more
We always qualify for the World Cup in Germany
When people asked me earlier this year could the Socceroos do it, I used to try to cheer them up by saying, ‘We always qualify for the World
Back to the future, not the past
Is it time to scrap the Australian youth coaching scheme and replace it with what went before or something based on Brazilian or French models as Craig Foster
Marnie Haig-Muir: Your review of the latest Rankin is right on the money, Roy. This book...