http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2013/jun/06/australia-friendship-tournament-vietnam-1967 is also a good read. I read another article, from a few years ago, where two of the players had a mate serving in the SASR in Vietnam and they went on the sort of bender you'd see in films starring Christop...
Australia vs Iraq - win sees the Socceroos through What could go wrong? http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/jun/17/joy-of-six-australia-world-cup-qualifiers oh. Iraq also missing Younnis Mahmood who is basically shit hot but retired from football last week and Nashat Akram who I think was o...
Interest in football in the US is really down to geography and local factors, isn't it? Pacific north-west was always a hot spot and there's 3 established MLS clubs (with some extended history) in the region. It's in the middle and the south where football isn't popular at all, iirc. It's also reaso...
I'm saying nothing. I've said it all after every one of the last 73 England games I've watched at all age levels. There really is a certain amount of "We said this about a decade ago" that you and a few other posters could unleash. Come on, this conversations been had for the last 20 year...
Sad fact is we are at least a decade behind the likes of Germany, Spain and Holland. We simply do not have enough qualified coaches at youth level. I ready a report that said there were more qualified youth coaches in Amsterdam than the whole of the UK. We need to school our youngsters at the earli...