http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/matt-morris/ Matt has been an avid football supporter since sitting in a rural Victorian grandstand with his dad in the freezing rain. After moving to Melbourne and getting married in the early 00’s he has become a rather boring Call Centre manager. Still, he keeps himself occupied by drinking beer in the South End at Melbourne Victory games, as well as being the co-founder of TAWTOF.com, a weekdaily Melbourne blog centred around ‘Talking About Whatever Takes Our Fancy’. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/bagging-out-soccer-fans-is-a-whorey-old-look/ As an old time supporter of Football (or Soccer, if you feel so inclined – which many Australians do), imbalanced and factually incorrect media reports of riots, violence and hooliganism in my code is nothing new. The rise of the A-League may have been nothing short of spectacular, but unfortunately the same old boys (usually AFL reporters) that pooh-poohed Soccer in the now defunct NSL era continue to periodically rear their snarling heads and tell us that this foreign sport is full of thugs that are more likely to slit your throat than not. The formula is just about the same every time, and Tim Hilferty’s Monday article on The Punch ‘The myth that soccer is a family-friendly sport’ was no different. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Matt Morris) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/bagging-out-soccer-fans-is-a-whorey-old-look/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/bagging-out-soccer-fans-is-a-whorey-old-look/#item1306 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:30:09 +0000 Matt Morris | Author bios | The Punch