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Farewell from FootballToday
It is with regret that FootballToday is closing down. We began this site as a content curation site in 2014, principally as a means of...
Mar 5, 2020
Leading sports and #fakenews campaigner named in line-up for Football Writers’ Festival
The latest speaker in the line-up for this year’s Football Writers’ Festival has been announced as Damian Collins MP of the UK. Collins...
Mar 3, 2020


Farewell Pim Verbeek
Focussed, honest, prickly, kind, funny and ultimately successful - Pim Verbeek was all those things
Nov 29, 2019
Something to write home about
The rapidly changing media landscape has had a number of consequences. Key amongst them is longer-form writing and, in many instances,...
Nov 22, 2019
International speaker announced for 2020 Football Writers’ Festival
Sports activist, public speaker and prolific writer, Shireen Ahmed of Canada, is the first international speaker announced for the 2020...
Nov 5, 2019
Craig Foster calls for an Australian Sports & Rights Institute
The growing movement of sport and human rights will give further legitimacy and impact to the athlete voice and reduce the historic...
Sep 18, 2019
A part of Australian football history secured for Australian football
An important photographic collection for Australian football has been secured thanks to two football federations and seven individuals...
Sep 16, 2019


‘Surfing for England’: Craig Johnston and other Aussie players ‘lost’ to the Socceroos
The latest really good football book to roll off the printing presses via Fair Play Publishing (of which FootballToday is part) was...
Aug 21, 2019


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


Tony Dorigo – the beginning of the Aussie connection with Leeds United
With Western Sydney Wanderers set to christen Bankwest Stadium on Saturday night 20 July in a friendly match against Leeds United, we...
Jul 19, 2019
Women in Football formed to support gender equality in the sport
A new national group was formed yesterday to address the issue of gender representation in one of the fastest growing women’s...
Jun 27, 2019


How much do you know about the Matildas?
In a little over two weeks at the FIFA Women's World Cup in France the Australian women's national football team known as the 'Matildas'...
May 21, 2019


Let Hamilton Azzurri be Hamilton Azzurri
FFA should show respect for football heritage and eschew a battle about a small Italian flag on a playing shirt
Apr 27, 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
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