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A New Era For Glory On The Horizon?

Western Australia is often referred to as “the wild West” due to its isolation, and its often very parochial stances on issues. When football became the first truly national sporting competition when Perth Glory was welcomed into the National Soccer

Beyond Comparison

The Australian Men’s hockey team won their seventh consecutive Commonwealth Games gold medal just over a week ago. Whereas many in the media predict every Olympic Games that the team will ‘definitely medal,’ and even sometimes are ‘a guaranteed the

Crossing The Floor From Politics to Sport

Despite the oft used phrase ‘politics and sport should never mix,’ it is quite common that sports and politics do. Currently many International Sporting Federations are prevaricating over what to do in relation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Few have

Podcast #104 – PANSA – A Community In Sport, Retire or Face Being Dropped and Drugs and the IOC.

Not the Footy Show Podcast

The Perth African Nations Sporting Association is a community group that is doing great work helping not just migrants but Australians of African descent fit into the community through sport. We catch up with Chairperson Achol Madong to hear how

The A-League – A Time To Reflect and Change?

‘What has gone wrong with the A-League?’ This was a question posed at a dinner table on the weekend. The person who posed the question had recently read the article “A-League Audience Figures Fall To Alarming New Lows on Channel