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Archive pages on this domain filed under “Ffa”, newest first. These are older materials, kept online for readers and researchers.
If you have any interest in the World Game in Australia then & Bill Murray, A History of Football in Australia: A Game…
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Football fandom, like sporting performance in general, involves a delicate balance. When you are coaching youngsters to play the game, you want them…
Leo Baumgartner (centre) heading. His arrival in Australia in 1958 to play for Prague was the catalyst for the…
HayCoverArt1 Coming full circle: Betting scandals then and now Betting scandals and corruption in sport are not new…
(A shorter version was originally published in Australian Soccer Weekly, c. 1 July 1993. The article also draws on a…
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Three years in the making the first visit by Liverpool to Australia was launched at a ceremony at the MCG yesterday. As part of its immediate…
Melbourne Victory 2 Perth Glory 1 (after extra time) After being on the back-foot for much of the ninety minutes…
Australia 2 Oman 2 Australia squeaked out of its home game against Oman with a two-all draw after going behind in the…
Melbourne Heart 1 Western Sydney Wanderers 3 Western Sydney Wanderers are within touching distance of the A-League…
Melbourne Victory 5 Newcastle Jets 0 Melbourne Victory bounced back dramatically from last week’s away loss to the…
Melbourne Heart 3 Sydney 1 Melbourne Heart entertained its largest home crowd for a league match of 13,752 (apart from…
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Melbourne Victory 1 Sydney FC 3 Sydney FC Women reversed the result of yesterday’s A-League game when they overcame Melbourne Victory by three goals…
North Geelong Warriors celebrated 45 years since the club was founded in 1967 and twenty years since their…
In a good quality game, Melbourne Victory did just enough to take all three points with a one-nil win over Perth Glory…
Melbourne Heart 3 Newcastle Jets 3 Melbourne Heart threw away a two-nil lead and eventually shared the points in a…
Melbourne Victory 1 Newcastle Jets 0 Melbourne Victory continued its unblemished sequence of wins over Newcastle Jets…
Melbourne Victory 1 Melbourne Heart 2 The keenly awaited Melbourne derby kicked-off the 2012–13 A League season at…
(This article appeared on Goal Weekly's website on 18 September 2012…
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The Independent looks at Australia at the Olympics (for full page see illustration at end of article. Click and double click to enlarge.) Selective…
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It was an excellent idea of SBS and the Johnny Warren Foundation to reopen the debate about the best players, coaches and teams to play the game in…
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(This story appeared as a Blast from the Past column in Goal Weekly on 2 March 2012, p. 19. Click on the photographs below to enlarge them. The…
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From Emus to Socceroos: The real origins of national team’s name at last and David Hearder (This story first appeared in Goal Weekly, 24 February…
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Time for FFA to keep its nerve (This aritcle appeared on the SBS website, The World Game on 22 February 2012 and in Goal Weekly on 24 February 2012.)…
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Melbourne Victory 2 Central Coast Mariners 1 Melbourne Victory recorded its first win under Jim Magilton as coach, knocking off league leader Central…
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Melbourne Heart 1 Perth Glory 2 Perth Glory was good value for its two-one away win over Melbourne Heart at AAMI Park on Sunday afternoon. Kristian…
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Melbourne Victory 1 Adelaide United 1 Melbourne Vicotry and Adelaide United renewed their long running rivalry for the Muscat-Kosmina Cup in addition…
Melbourne Heart 1 Sydney FC 1 It was heartbreak of the Heart at AAMI Park on Saturday night when the home team thought…
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Sjel (Mike) de Bruyckere. After a stellar career as player and coach at senior level de Bruyckere continued his involvement with the game, coaching…
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(Published on the Goal Weekly website, 19 August 2011. www.goalweekly.com) Last week I wrote about bending the rules in sport in general terms, but…
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Kids at play. Photo: Sydney Low / asteriskimages.com FFA’s new structure: window dressing or worse Football Federation Australia has just announced…
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Geelong Advertiser, 29 October 2008, p. 17. It may turn out to be a storm in a teacup but the proposed and then rescinded banning of Eureka flags at…
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Goal Weekly, Monday 30 June 2008, p. 11. At last there are signs that the Football Federation of Australia is beginning to recognise that the game in…