Roy Hay, 'Celtic and Australia,' The Celt, 100, February 2006, pp. 28-31. How do you recognise the contribution of Eugene McBride to the story of Celtic? The man is a marvel and and a model but really one of a kind. His enthusiasm, knowledge and generosity is...
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 backhanders which he claims is rife in...
A four-nil win for Melbourne Victory over New Zealand Knights marked its return to Olympic Park last night for what may be its last game at the venue. The New Zealand Knights side was a mixture of regular Knights players, New Zealand internationals and a couple of...
The Football Federation of Victoria has revealed its plans for the proposed new V-League which is due to replace the existing Premier League in February 2008. Tough new criteria will have to be met by clubs seeking to join the new league with expressions of interest...
Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 9 December 2006, p. 100. Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC fought each other to a standstill in a high quality but goalless draw in Round 16 of the A-League at Telstra Dome last night. In front of the biggest crowd of the season and the...
Geelong Advertiser, Friday 7 December 2006, p. 52. For a city with a population catchment of over 200,000 Geelong lacks a compact stadium to house the non-AFL codes of football particularly soccer. This is holding back the development of the game, though it is not the...
Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 2 December 2006, p. 101. The Geelong (soccer) football community learned what the future of the game holds when the Football Federation of Victoria announced the preliminary criteria for its new V-League to be launched in 2008 earlier this...
Melbourne Victory left it very late but came up with another victory by a goal to nil over Perth Glory in the A-League match at Telstra Dome last night in front of 22,890 fans. Scottish midfielder Grant Brebner did the damage with a thunderous shot in the 88th minute....
United force needed, Geelong Advertiser, Thursday 23 November 2006, p. 39. Tucked away at the end of the Football Federation of Victoria press release in yesterday’s Geelong Advertiser was the announcement of what could be Geelong’s last and best hope of a future for...
A depleted Melbourne Victory lost its second match of the season by a goal to nil against Newcastle Jets in Round 14 of the A-League at Telstra Dome last night. Victory was without skipper Kevin Muscat, and regular defenders Daniel Piorkowski and Simon Storey and...
Melbourne Victory and the Central Coast Mariners drewthree-all in an extraordinary Round Eleven match in the A-League at Telstra Dome last night in front of 28,118 fans. Victory got the best possible start when Archie Thompson skinned Vuko Tomasevic out on the right...
Published in the Geelong Advertiser, Tuesday 24 October 2006, p. 34. under the heading 'Joey's Dutch courage' You wouldn’t want to put the moz on him by drawing attention to it, but Geelong keeper Joey Didulica has made an incredible start to his resumed career in...
Geelong Advertiser, Monday 16 October 2006, p. 35. Melbourne Victory went gunning for its eighth straight win in the 2006-07 A-League against Adelaide United at Telstra Dome last night but came up short in a one-nil defeat. There were 32,368 fans in the ground to...
Geelong Advertiser, Monday 9 October 2006, p. 37. The football World Cup is the greatest multicultural sporting extravaganza of modern times. Its only conceivable rival, the Olympic Games, is a multi-sports activity in which all member countries can take part in a...
Geelong Advertiser, Monday 2 October 2006, p. 31. Top of the table Melbourne Victory recorded its sixth win in a row against second-placed Queensland Roar by four goals to one at Telstra Dome last night in front of 25,921 fans. Victory sprang to an early lead in the...
Geelong Advertiser, Monday 18 September 2006, p. 36. Melbourne Victory ran out one-nil winner over the Central Coast Mariners in its Round Four match in the A-League at Olympic Park yesterday. The crowd of 17,617 was a sell out with the capacity of the ground only a...
Melbourne Victory knocked off the defending champion, Sydney FC by three-goals to two in an A-League second round match that had everything before a record crowd of 39,730 at Telstra Dome on Saturday night. Five goals, a controversial penalty, a sending off and...
Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 26 August 2006, p. 83. Melbourne Victory opened its 2006 A-League season with a two-nil win against last year’s finalist Adelaide United in front of 15781 fans at Olympic Park last night. Victory won a couple of free kicks in dangerous...