Australia

What Is It They Say About Statistics…

The last week has been a very long one for those who don’t follow the AFL or the West Coast Eagles in Western Australia. (Our name should tell you that we clearly don’t!) You would think that nothing else had

A Roll of the Dice?

What a difference a day makes. No sooner was “How the Mighty Have Fallen” published than we witnessed Malaysian Hockey potentially destroy the past three years of stability with a knee-jerk reaction that one can only assume is linked to

How the Mighty Have Fallen

Everyone knows that a coach’s life can often be a short one. It can also be an extremely stressful one. In fact there is the famous line in football that you are not a good coach until you have been

Stop the Farce

How many clubs would give a trial to 32 year old who had never played that sport as a professional even semi-professional level? Everything surrounding Usain Bolt’s trial with the Central Coast Mariners is wrong for sport and wrong for

The Lingering Farewell

When is a player retired? On July 17th a player dubbed by many as “Australia’s Greatest Socceroo,” Tim Cahill. announced his retirement from international football. Not surprisingly following the announcement there was a great deal of media coverage praising Cahill