http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/simon-crerar/ Simon is the Online Editor of The Cairns Post (http://www.cairns.com.au) A British journalist with a dozen years of Fleet Street experience, in 2010 he swapped The Times of London for the crocodiles, cane toads and irukandji of fabulous Far North Queensland. When he’s not diving the Great Barrier Reef or walking his Jack Russell bitches, he is glued to Twitter, lapping up the best and worst of world journalism, gossip and tittle-tattle. Follow Simon at http://twittter.com/simoncrerar en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +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/the-greatest-ending-to-a-football-season-ever/ I am still in a state of shock. Delicious, indescribable shock. For the first time in my life, my beloved Manchester City FC are champions of England. In the early hours of yesterday morning, the tiny window live streaming Foxtel on my iMac transported me 15,000km to Eastlands in Manchester to watch City’s biggest game since 1968, when we last clinched the league championship. In the space of 95 agonising minutes the title was lost, won, lost again, lost almost irretrievably and then finally, somehow, incredibly won in the dying seconds with the very last kick of the season. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Simon Crerar) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-greatest-ending-to-a-football-season-ever/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-greatest-ending-to-a-football-season-ever/#item8500 Tue, 15 May 2012 00:45:37 +0000 Simon Crerar | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/another-billion-reasons-to-hate-mark-zuckerberg/ I woke up yesterday morning to horrific news. My favourite iPhone application of all time, the time-wasting fun-machine photo social network Instagram, had been snaffled up by Facebook for a frankly mind-boggling sum. Apparently a picture is not worth a thousand words, it is worth $1 billion. Oh Instagram, why did it have to come to this? After wiping away my tears, the enormity of the purchase sank in. Here was a company of 13 employees being valued at more than the New York Times. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Simon Crerar) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/another-billion-reasons-to-hate-mark-zuckerberg/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/another-billion-reasons-to-hate-mark-zuckerberg/#item8205 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:55:37 +0000 Simon Crerar | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Man-what-a-power-shift-as-the-world-unites-behind-City/ In Manchester the world turned on its axis as City staged a palace coup in the Theatre of Dreams, smashing rivals United 6-1 away from home to take a five point lead in the race for the English Premier League and stake their claim as the new kings of English football. If you know anything about football, and even if you don’t know anything about football, you’ll know that Manchester United are the biggest soccer club on the planet. Yes, Spain’s Real Madrid and FC Barcelona have hundreds of thousands of members and passionate Latin American support, but since the Premier League’s inception in 1992, no team has won more devotees around the world than the Red Devils. United’s reputation has been built on sustained footballing excellence, millions of pounds of match day revenue, and the simple human desire of fans around the world to back a winner. Or shameless glory-hunting as it is otherwise known. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Simon Crerar) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Man-what-a-power-shift-as-the-world-unites-behind-City/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Man-what-a-power-shift-as-the-world-unites-behind-City/#item6992 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:50:17 +0000 Simon Crerar | Author bios | The Punch