David Hall
Dave Hall is editor of Australian Football Weekly and The Full90, official matchday program of the Hyundai A-League.
Football is his unrequited love. After one too many wet Saturday mornings left on the subs bench, he finally realised he was not going to break into the school’s first XI, never mind get talent-spotted by his beloved Liverpool FC.
As a result, Dave has slogged through a varied career in hard-hitting journalism, including 10-day trips around the Whitsundays as a travel writer, free CDs and backstage passes as a music writer, and free clothes and alcohol as a lifestyle writer. In recent years, working on Alpha magazine and Foxsports.com.au has provided plenty of free tickets and a reliable excuse to watch sports as a football writer.
As editor of AFW, he is embarrassingly across the A-League, and his main concern is how to squeeze even more football into an already congested schedule.
Articles by David Hall
Forget the Fury, let’s focus our anger on the future
Yesterday afternoon, Football Federation Australia confirmed the game’s worst kept secret and announced North Queensland Fury would not take part…... Read more
Do we actually want the World Cup?
In a little under two weeks, at 2am on December 3, FIFA will announce the nations that will host the…... Read more
Why is nobody going to watch the A-League?
Another week in the A-League, another drubbing for the attendance figures. I tuned in to the Gold Coast-Mariners game on…... Read more
Top to bottom, the A-League’s doing it tough
They say a week is a long time in football – they’re not kidding. This week has to go down…... Read more
Here’s to the funniest movie ever made
Is Flying High the funniest movie ever made? This month the comedy classic Flying High (aka Airplane!) celebrated its 30th…... Read more
Football lessons: the Chelsea show is on again
We’re only a couple of weeks into the football season but certain things have become very clear, very quickly: Sydney…... Read more
Five lessons from the start of the real football season
Take a sniff, breathe it in – you know what that is? That’s the smell of deep heat and hair…... Read more
Triumph of the geek in an assault on the frontal lobe
If the nastiness of this election is getting you down, perhaps it’s time to take a break. If you want…... Read more
The new Socceroos coach pulled from a Scrabble bag
After a day of feverish speculation, the new Socceroos coach was revealed yesterday – German Holger Osieck. The first question…... Read more
The A-League needs Sydney FC to win the Grand Final
For the good of the game, Sydney must win the A-League Grand Final Now, I’m just putting this out there.…... Read more
Melbourne slips another one past sleeping Sydney
Sydney FC fans have woken up this morning feeling like they’ve had their wallets stolen – but they’ve got no…... Read more
Sydney win, Aloisi redeemed, but this is just the beginning
So Sydney FC are minor premiers. Congratulations, they battled their way to the top with a lot more perspiration than…... Read more
Oh soccer, why do they hate you so?
Why does football/soccer bring out the hate? Every time I read a story or a blog about football/soccer on the…... Read more
Can anyone stop the flying V?
Can anyone stop Melbourne Victory making it two in a row? What did we learn from last weekend’s round of…... Read more
How Sydney fans turned the heroic Aloisi into a villain
For many Australians, John Aloisi will always be fondly remembered for scoring the penalty that put Australia in the 2006…... Read more
A-League: Reasons for roundballers to love Branko
Things are happening on Newcastle that shouldn’t be. The Jets, last year’s wooden-spooners who finished with an eye-watering 18 points,…... Read more
A game by any other name - is it football or soccer?
Do you call it “football”? Then you’re an unAustralian zealot sucked in by the game for diving, cheating nancy boy…... Read more
World Cup draw: actually not a death sentence
Watching the World Cup draw early on Saturday morning felt like watching the cast of The Bold and the Beautiful…... Read more
The A-League’s greatest weakness is also its strength
Earlier this week, Newcastle Jets coach Branko Culina got hit with a $3000 fine for saying his team still had…... Read more
When an ex-premiership player gets Down Under
It’s Monday - what is Robbie Fowler thinking this morning? It was a tough weekend for the former Liverpool star.…... Read more
The Central Coast Mariners: We are the Robots
Last week in Australian Football Weekly, I wrote a couple of disparaging remarks about Central Coast Mariners. Nothing too heavy,…... Read more
Why the A-League needs a two horse race
The only real winners in round 13 of the A-League were the competition’s two biggest teams to set up the…... Read more
Gold Coast crowd cap means bad business for everyone
Gold Coast United owner Clive Palmer has decided to save his club $100,000 every home game by capping the crowds…... Read more
Why Adelaide fans love losing to Melbourne
Over the past eight games between Melbourne Victory and Adelaide United, the tally stands Melbourne 8, Adelaide 0. I’d hate…... Read more
The A-League has it all over the English Premier League
The A-League is by no means the best football in the world, but as a competition, it’s better than the…... Read more
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