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Nov 23, 20204 min read
2020 Football Writers’ Festival – Closing Comments
The 2020 Football Writers' Festival at Manly in Sydney was a wonderful celebration of football, writing and ideas

Jul 16, 20203 min read
Here’s to 1982 and Sócrates
We dedicate the July edition of PLAY ON to Sócrates and all the good he stood for.

Apr 15, 20204 min read
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

Aug 2, 201910 min read
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...


Apr 25, 20193 min read
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 8, 20195 min read
‘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...


Jan 4, 20193 min read
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...
Oct 26, 20183 min read
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 3, 20184 min read
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...
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