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Melbourne Victory 3 Newcastle Jets 2 Melbourne Victory looked to have defeated Newcastle Jets comfortably after taking…
Melbourne Heart 1 Melbourne Victory 2 The Melbourne derby produced one of the most dramatic finishes in the short…
Melbourne Victory 1 Brisbane Roar 1 Melbourne Victory could not erase the memory of the five-nil hammering in the…
(This article appeared as a Blast from the Past in Goal Weekly, 7 December 2012, p. 19.) Box Hill is one of Victoria’s…
North Geelong Warriors celebrated 45 years since the club was founded in 1967 and twenty years since their…
In a good quality game, Melbourne Victory did just enough to take all three points with a one-nil win over Perth Glory…
Melbourne Heart 3 Newcastle Jets 3 Melbourne Heart threw away a two-nil lead and eventually shared the points in a…
Melbourne Victory 2 Central Coast Mariners 2 Melbourne Victory and Central Coast Mariners drew two-all at Etihad…
Melbourne Heart 4 Brisbane Roar 1 ‘Brisbane played without heart’, said Roar coach Rado Vidosic, after his team was…
Melbourne Victory 3 Wellington Phoenix 2 Melbourne Victory kept up its winning record against Wellington Phoenix, but…
Melbourne Victory 1 Newcastle Jets 0 Melbourne Victory continued its unblemished sequence of wins over Newcastle Jets…
Richard Garcia (left) and Trent Sainsbury in action. Melbourne Heart 0 Central Coast Mariners 1 Central Coast Mariners…
Melbourne Victory 2 Adelaide United 1 The 2012-13 season of the A-League looks like it will be the most competitive…
Melbourne Heart 1 Wellington Phoenix 1 Melbourne Heart took on a Wellington Phoenix side depleted by international…
Melbourne Victory 1 Melbourne Heart 2 The keenly awaited Melbourne derby kicked-off the 2012–13 A League season at…
(This article appeared on Goal Weekly's website on 18 September 2012…
Scotland 3 Australia 1 Scotland took on Australia in a pre-world cup qualifier friendly match at Edinburgh’s Easter…
(Click and double click on the photos below to enlarge them) Mexico stun Brazil to take gold Brazil 1 Mexico 2 Mexico…
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(Click and double click on the photos below to enlarge them) Getting to Wembley on final day Final day in the football promised sunny and hot in…
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The Independent looks at Australia at the Olympics (for full page see illustration at end of article. Click and double click to enlarge.) Selective…
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Wembley Way in 2012 Wembley at last The journey which began at Hampden Park in Glasgow now reaches its end at the new Wembley stadium in London…
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The people you meet: Melissa Barbieri, Matildas' keeper Today’s match is at Old Trafford, home of the mighty Manchester United, which necessitated a…
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St James's Park, Newcastle is a magnificent venue to watch football. Olympic football tournament taking shape After two rounds of group matches in…
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The story of the game, Orianica Velasquez surrounded by US players. USA 3 Colombia 0 The defending Olympic champion made sure of its place in the…
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Spain 0 Japan 1 The 30th Olympiad football tournament had its first major upset when one of the tournament favourites, Spain, was thoroughly upstaged…
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Hampden Park in the sun as the teams line up for the opening game between the United States of America and France. United States 4 France 2 The…
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The games of the 30th Olympiad begin tomorrow when Team GB women’s team kicks off against New Zealand at the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff at 4 pm…
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Wembley Stadium where the Olympic Games men's final will be played. Olympics only just surfacing in a wave of sport It is only two days until the…
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Marcelo takes on the TeamGB defence. Team GB 0 Brazil 2 The British Olympic football team, the so-called Team GB, got a wake-up call from a very…
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Last season Motherwell finished third in the Scottish Premier League behind Celtic and Rangers and with Rangers banned from European competition the…
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Rangers fans in Sydney in July 2010. A bad week for football might do some good? The game of football has taken a battering this week though it is…
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One of the many display cases at the NFM. Grand (re)opening of the National Football Museum in England The National Football Museum, formerly located…
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Jack Reilly tries but fails to prevent Colin Stein (right) from scoring for Rangers against Victoria at Olympic Park in 1975. Source: Laurie Schwab…
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Another champion team from Spain. Real Madrid in 1960 and Ferenc Puskas celebrates a goal. Are Spain the greatest ever? It is inevitable that Spain’s…
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Andy Murray sliding for a fall. Source: Electronic Telegraph. Too much sport is never enough Here we are in Belfast with the Irish Open golf at…
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Happier days for Rangers in Sydney in 2010. Culture shock and football’s woes It is a severe culture shock to go from a country where the back…
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The Victorian Minister for Sport, Hugh Delahunty (right) practices his heading skills and Terry Mulder, the Minister for Transport (left) his…
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Three down after 25 minutes Melbourne Victory found out what it was like to play against one of the top teams in Europe, Olympiakos Piraeus, the…
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For two weeks before the Federal budget, the commentariat focused on the Reserve Bank’s misreading of the economic entrails arguing that it has…
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Testing one of the goal-line technology systems. FIFA World, April 2012, p. 13. Keep technology out of football (Earlier versions of the this article…
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at the Olympics (This article was publsihed on the Goal Weekly website at www.goalweklly.com.au on Thursday 26 April 2012. The photograph of Hakan…
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It was an excellent idea of SBS and the Johnny Warren Foundation to reopen the debate about the best players, coaches and teams to play the game in…
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(This story appeared as a Blast from the Past column in Goal Weekly on 2 March 2012, p. 19. Click on the photographs below to enlarge them. The…
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(The text of this article appeared as a Blast from the Past in Goal Weekly on 16 March 2012, p. 19. All photos from the Laurie Schwab and collections…
It is with deep sadness and regret that we pass on the news that Helen Schwab tragically drowned while swimming in…
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(This article appeared in Goal Weekly, Friday 23 March 2012, p. 19 and is reproduced here with the permission of the editor Costa Koutropoulos, who…
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Melbourne Heart 2 Sydney FC 2 (Click and double click on photos below to enlarge them) In a classic game of two halves, Melbourne Heart scored two…
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Melbourne Victory 3 Wellington Phoenix 0 Melbourne Victory produced the kind of performance the fans had been waiting for all year with a three-nil…
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Melbourne Heart 1 Wellington Phoenix 1 (Double click on photos below to enlarge them.) In the match which could decide its finals ambitions…
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North Geelong win City of Greater Geelong Cup in a landslide (Note: click and double click on photographs below to enlarge them). North Geelong…
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Melbourne Victory 1 Newcastle Jets 3 On a night of pouring rain in Melbourne, Victory’s season was washed away by Newcastle Jets by three goals to…
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Australia 4 Saudi Arabia 2 Australia overcame a spirited Saudi Arabia by four goals to two in the final game of the first qualifying group for the…
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From Emus to Socceroos: The real origins of national team’s name at last and David Hearder (This story first appeared in Goal Weekly, 24 February…
North squeak through in final rehearsal North Geelong scored in the last minute to beat Corio by three goals to two in…
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Melbourne Heart 1 Central Coast Mariners 0 Melbourne Heart knocked off the bottom team, Gold Coast United, by a single goal last week and on Sunday…
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North squeak through in final rehearsal North Geelong scored in the last minute to beat Corio by three goals to two in a very entertaining rehearsal…
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Time for FFA to keep its nerve (This aritcle appeared on the SBS website, The World Game on 22 February 2012 and in Goal Weekly on 24 February 2012.)…
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North and Corio on track for final North Geelong and Corio will meet next Friday night at 6 pm in a dress rehearsal for the grand final of the City…
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Melbourne Heart 1 Gold Coast United 0 A late goal by substitute Eli Babalj gave Melbourne Heart a vital win in its attempt to retain its position in…
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North power away in CoGG Cup North Geelong secured a place in the 2012 City of Greater Geelong Cup final with its third win in succession in this…