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Podcast #72 – The Matildas History, Memberships or Ticket Deals, and Who would be a National Coach?

Not the Footy Show Podcast

Our 496th show, and we are inviting suggestions as to how we should celebrate 500. Is there a guest we should aim for? Let us know It’s great to be back with another guest and more topics to discuss. Our

The Qualification Conundrum

Sometimes sport can make you sad. It makes you wonder how something that was intended to be so simple, so pure and so free from politics, greed and corruption has lost its way. The Olympic Games is still the pinnacle

De-sexing Sport

Last night I went to bed knowing I was a man. This morning I woke up feeling like a pet that has shaken off an anaesthetic and just realised that it has been de-sexed. Overnight World Rugby announced that it

No Substitute For History

“The only thing that is constant is change” is an oft used quote given by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. Heraclitus was known as the “dark philosopher” as his writings were deemed so hard to understand, and also because he apparently

Time To Cut Your Cloth

The African Hockey Championships are under way in Cape Town. On the line is a place at the Tokyo Olympics for what should have been the eight men’s and seven women’s teams. Of the teams supposed to be competing only