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Time to Review the Review?

To the un-initiated a 0-0 draw in football must be boring. Yet that can be far from the truth, as often a match is decided by the finest of margins. A deflected shot can wrong-foot a goalkeeper to give a

The Club v Country Conundrum.

They say if you wait long enough everything changes. It was back in the early 2000’s that a meeting took place between the then coach of the Socceroos Frank Farina and coach of the Kookaburras Barry Dancer to look at

“Less Technical and Easier to Follow.” Is This The Key?

Change can be confronting, it can be difficult. Change is constant, and so we are told, it is necessary to stay relevant in today’s world. However does this really apply when it comes to sport? If you look at most

Total Respect

There is a famous saying that says a referee is like a tap, you only notice it when it is not working properly. Referees and umpires,like players, make mistakes, unfortunately for them many of their mistakes are remembered by fans

Time to Trust the Man in The Middle

If we have not been told that ‘sport reflects life,’ we would have read it somewhere. The reason that this is uttered, or similar words, so often is because it is true. There will be days when you play superbly as