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Yesterday afternoon, Football Federation Australia confirmed the game’s worst kept secret and announced North Queensland Fury would not take part in the A-League next season, the club short of cash and the sport’s ruling body unwilling to stump up its own.
Given we’re one week out from the competition’s grand final, this is a Godsend for the anti-soccer brigade, who will pounce on any opportunity to shove all those “the world game will dominate” arguments back down the deluded roundball fanatics’ throats.
There’s no denying the decision to close the Fury is a body blow for the code but it’s not the death knell for football. In fact, forget the Socceroos – this is the time when football in Australia really comes of age.
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Another week in the A-League, another drubbing for the attendance figures. I tuned in to the Gold Coast-Mariners game on Monday and thought Fox Sports had actually started adding canned crowds to their coverage.
I’m not here to beat up the A-League – I have to make a living out of and there’s enough people doing it already – but the Gold Coast attendance of 2037 is appalling. This club is a known basketcase and has never had much of a crowd but it was the same across the league. Why don’t football fans turn up?
Let’s get the obvious reason out the way: its finals time for the two big codes, and they’re sucking up every possible sports fan, second of airtime and dollar that exists.
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John says:
It’s simple. the talent in the A league is disgusting. There not talented players there just picked because they know someone. Get talented players who deserve to be there playing. And then I would go to a game. Read more »
Australia has taken another huge step towards hosting the World Cup after it withdrew its 2018 bid to let Europe host the tournament – galvanising European support behind our 2022 bid.
In a tactical masterstroke which saw FIFA take the rare step of publicly praising Australia for its “exemplary” conduct, Football Federation Australia chairman Frank Lowy said yesterday Australia would now concentrate solely on the 2022 World Cup to clear the path for Europe in 2018.
The move is a coup for two reasons – it has sidelined the United States, which is still bidding for 2018 and 2022, and won plaudits from Europe, which holds eight votes on the 24-member FIFA executive committee which selects the host nations.
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Ronk says:
Noooo! let the Europeans and South Americans have it, they are the only places where significant numbers of people are actually willing to pay to see a soccer game. If the world soccer authorities are stupid enough to give the misnamed “World” cup of their sport to a country where… Read more »
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Harquebus says:
I doubt they will come here in the millions and I also doubt that profits on sales, not just the money they spend, will pay for the infrastructure that goes along with these media extravaganzas. Try not sitting on your brain Andy. Read more »
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