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2020 Football Writers’ Festival – Closing Comments
The 2020 Football Writers' Festival at Manly in Sydney was a wonderful celebration of football, writing and ideas
Nov 23, 2020


Here’s to 1982 and Sócrates
We dedicate the July edition of PLAY ON to Sócrates and all the good he stood for.
Jul 16, 2020


FIFA must apologise to football’s whistleblowers
The 'FIFA way' robbed millions worldwide of facilities, funding and opportunities for the best part of a generation and whistleblowers are b
Apr 15, 2020


Lessons from football history to 1949
As the son of a Hungarian migrant in Sydney, my brothers and I went to places like Wentworth Park or the E.S. Marks Field and watched St...
Aug 2, 2019


ANZAC football and discovering the world
The solemn reflections at the heart of ANZAC remembrance have in recent times become intertwined with a sporting calendar where football,...
Apr 25, 2019


‘If I started to cry, I wouldn’t stop’: book extract
There were worse places to wait for three days for a call from Lucas Neill than an anonymous hotel on the outskirts of Berlin. There was...
Apr 8, 2019


As we defend the Asian Cup, let’s remember our Asian football pioneers
On Sunday, Australia will start the defence of its Asian Cup title, the biggest prize ever won in the Socceroos' long history. What a...
Jan 4, 2019
Foreign investment in Australian football is not a foreign concept
The winds of change swirling around the FFA Congress and a potentially self governing A-League have kicked up some dust about the...
Oct 26, 2018
Farewell Captain Socceroo: Mile Jedinak
To understand what makes Mile Jedinak tick you have to go back to his days growing up as a kid in the sometimes rough and tumble outer...
Oct 3, 2018
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