Geelong Advertiser, Thursday 24 August 2006, p. 39. Melbourne Victory launched its second A-League season with a flourish in Melbourne yesterday. As is now often the case, Melbourne Lord Mayor John So stole the show with his repeated shouts of ‘Victoree’. At the media...
Football 2006
Geelong’s Spiranovic runs hot in Chile
Geelong Advertiser, Monday 14 August 2006, p. 46. Geelong teenager Matthew Spiranovic has anchored the Young Socceroos’ defence in its second draw in succession with world-class opposition in South America. Overnight the Under-20 team held host nation Chile to a...
World Cup 2006
The football World Cup, which reaches its climax in Germany this weekend, is the greatest multicultural sporting extravaganza of modern times. Its only conceivable rival, the Olympic Games, is a multi-sports activity in which all countries who are part of the Olympic...
Farewell Jimmy Johnstone
Jimmy Johnstone, ‘Jinky’ to everyone, the man voted the greatest Celtic player ever, has died at the age of 62 after a long illness. A supremely talented ball player with mesmeric close control, he was an integral part of the Lisbon Lions, the home-grown Celtic team...
Greece and Australia have a long football history
When the current European football champion, Greece, comes to play the Socceroos in Melbourne in May in a warm-up game for the World Cup in Germany it will cement links between the football playing cultures of the two countries. Greece and Australia are linked by...
Melbourne Victory v New Zealand Knights
Melbourne Victory completed its first A-league season with a two-one win against last-place New Zealand Knights at Olympic Park on Saturday night in front of 10,078 dedicated fans. It was the closest one-sided game in the twenty-one rounds of matches with the home...
Banners at Olympic Park
Seven month off-season Shame FFA. (But only six if Victory had made the finals) Sack Desira Kitz thanks for the memories Go home Merrick we want a real coach. From PM and MN Saturday Knights Fever Boogie Knights Brockie Enough is enough Merrick out. m 7 c Andy Capp...
World Cup 2006 Draw and Results
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World Cup 2006
Scots go crazy over Trinidad and Tobago The World Cup is under way, but the Scots are not there. No worries. We will just support Trinidad and Tobago instead. You cannot buy a T and T jersey anywhere in Scotland, they are all sold out. Why you may ask? Well there is...
World Cup 2006
Guus Hiddink, pragmatist, strategist and gambler It is perhaps too early to assess Guus Hiddink’s contribution to Australian football, but it is already clear that he has had a significant impact and not necessarily for the reasons sometimes advanced. It has become...
North win inaugural Century 21 Community Shield
North Geelong won the first Century 21 Geelong Community Shield at Stead Park yesterday by five goals to one against a plucky Geelong Rangers team. In perfect conditions for football, North and Rangers battled out a first half of high quality but eventually North’s...