Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday 14 February 2007, p. 49. So here we go again. Steve McLaren, the manager of the English national team is pilloried for a narrow loss to Spain in a friendly match and calls for his resignation go out from sections of the English press. The...
2007
Showdown at the Docklands
Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 3 February 2007, p. 92. Melbourne gets its first taste of A-League football finals at Telstra Dome when Melbourne Victory takes on Adelaide United in the second leg of the major semi-final tomorrow night. Over 40,000 tickets have already...
Finishing on top a poisoned chalice
Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 27 January 2007, p. 91. Melbourne Victory won the home and away series, or the Minor Premiership, of the A-League by the length of a street or by twelve points, four games clear of its nearest challenger, Adelaide United. In Europe, that...
Vidosic smash and grab robs Victory
Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 13 January 2007, p. 86. A last minute goal by Dario Vidosic for Queensland Roar denied Melbourne Victory a point in the penultimate round of the A-League at Telstra Dome last night. Despite the cricket down the road at the MCG, 28,937 fans...
The football year: From World Cup to Community Shield
Published as 'High achievers: Geelong's star performers in the world game', Geelong Advertiser, Monday 1 January 2007, p. 37. This was an extraordinary year for the world game of football, with Australia’s first World Cup appearance since 1974, Melbourne Victory...
Hat trick for Dorris Family
Eddie Dorris was presented with the trophy as Geelong Soccer Personality of 2007 at the launch of the Century 21 Community Shield at North Geelong’s Elcho Park on Friday night, thus becoming the third member of his family to win this award. His father, Billy Dorris,...
North Geelong wins Century 21 Community Shield for 2007
Results and Fixtures 2007 Day Date Time Home Team Goals Away Team Goals Total goals 50 Fri 2-Feb-07 7.00 North Geelong 1 Geelong Rangers 1 (Daniel Dragicevic) (Troy Hardy) Sun 4-Feb-07 6.00 Hoppers...
North Geelong wins Century 21 Community Shield for 2007
North Geelong won the Century 21 Community Shield with a two-nil result against Geelong Rangers at Elcho Park on Sunday 11 March 2007. In a game of two contrasting halves, North played through the midfield with Mijo Trupkovic orchestrating play. Manny Karas set up...
Social capital and our society
Published as 'Ethnics rule', Geelong Advertiser, Monday 20 August 2007, p. 15. The American social psychologist and political analyst Robert Putnam has had a huge influence overseas with his ideas about social capital and its importance for the kind of society we live...
Receiving a poor reception
Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 4 August 2007, p. 33. Listening to the radio last night, I heard that Australian motorcyclist Casey Stoner who leads the current MotoGP championship by 44 points half way through the season is back home in Australia at his farm in New...
Aussie fair go is far gone
Geelong Advertiser, Monday 23 July 2007, p. 15. What has happened to the land of the fair go? It used to be that we judged people on what they did, not on what they might have done, or what their cousins might have done. Now we, and we are all implicated, have turned...
Socceroos’ new adventure
Tomorrow an Australian sports team will embark on a great new adventure. For the first time the Socceroos will take part in the Asian Cup, the championship of all the nations in the Asian Confederation which stretches from Iraq and Saudi Arabia in the west to Japan...
The national capital in winter
Published as 'World stage: Aussies unite behind Socceroos', Geelong Advertiser, Friday 6 July 2007, p. 17. Why would you want to spend time in Canberra in winter people asked me? My answer on this occasion was that the Australian sports historians were gathering for...
Battling info brain-battering
Geelong Advertiser, Saturday, 16 June 2007, p. 41 Do you often get the feeling that there is just too much information hitting your brain these days? Television and radio bombard you with news and talk-back and advertisements. Newspapers deluge you with a world of...
Short political, economic memories
Geelong Advertiser, Saturday, 2 June 2007, p. 37 They say a week is a long time in politics, but the events of the last week suggest that inconvenient memories are being forgotten in what used to be called political economy. In business as in life there is always a...
Bastard Boys is ABC at its best
Geelong Advertiser, Saturday, 19 May 2007, p. 33 The ABC was at its very best this week when it ran Bastard Boys over two nights on Sunday and Monday. This dramatic story loosely based on the events of the battle on the Australian waterfront in 1998 has been praised...
How safe are we?
Published as 'Fears surrendering our freedoms', Geelong Advertiser, Saturday, 5 May 2007, p. 33 Watch television, read the news or listen to the shock jocks on the radio and you could be forgiven for thinking we are living in the most violent of times and places? Yet...
Labo(u)r and its leaders: Britain and Australia
Published as 'UK paves way', Geelong Advertiser, Monday, 23 April 2007, p. 17 Tony Blair is coming to the end of his period as leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister of Britain, while Kevin Rudd is just beginning his leadership of the Labor Party and aiming to...