http://www.theoffside.com League Football, Soccer News and Views from Around the World Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:55:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/things-not-to-say-on-twitter-part-australia.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/things-not-to-say-on-twitter-part-australia.html#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:56:57 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/things-not-to-say-on-twitter-part-australia.html Twitter might be the demise of the modern athlete, if only by allowing them the medium to do and say stupid shit before their agent and/or PR team can get in the way of a speeding bullet. Adelaide United’s Anthony Golec learned this little lesson after one of his tweets, originally designed to be a [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/things-not-to-say-on-twitter-part-australia.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/australia/perth-glory-convinced-theyve-signed-wayne-rooney.html http://www.theoffside.com/australia/perth-glory-convinced-theyve-signed-wayne-rooney.html#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:00:58 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/australia/perth-glory-convinced-theyve-signed-wayne-rooney.html For a mere $45 trillion Aussie dollars (or £28.1 trillion). These revelations after Robbie Fowler’s claims Wayne was considering a move “down under”. (You have to wonder if he thought it had something to do with women of the evening.) This is obviously in good fun, but you can be damn sure one of the Glazer [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/australia/perth-glory-convinced-theyve-signed-wayne-rooney.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/australia/melbourne-heart-turns-down-100000-per-game-ronaldo-offer.html http://www.theoffside.com/australia/melbourne-heart-turns-down-100000-per-game-ronaldo-offer.html#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:17:39 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/australia/melbourne-heart-turns-down-100000-per-game-ronaldo-offer.html A-League new boys Melbourne Heart have apparently said “thanks, but no thanks” to Ronaldo’s offer to wear their (checks Wikipedia) red and white striped shirt. Not because they think the great man would struggle in the A-League, but because El Fenómeno was apparently asking for $100,000-per-game on a sort of celebrity guest appearance basis. That’s [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/australia/melbourne-heart-turns-down-100000-per-game-ronaldo-offer.html/feed 6 http://www.theoffside.com/australia/two-a-league-footballers-banned-for-diving.html http://www.theoffside.com/australia/two-a-league-footballers-banned-for-diving.html#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:31:57 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/australia/two-a-league-footballers-banned-for-diving.html Big diving controversy in Australia this week, which I found out about while reading David’s post on the A-League Offside blog. Patricio Perez of the Central Coast Mariners and Michael Baird of Perth Glory both won penalties over the weekend with suspicious looking falls to the floor. Not so strange, because that happens in every [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/australia/two-a-league-footballers-banned-for-diving.html/feed 1 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/theres-a-down-under-joke-somewhere-in-here-a-league-dives.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/theres-a-down-under-joke-somewhere-in-here-a-league-dives.html#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:30:15 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/theres-a-down-under-joke-somewhere-in-here-a-league-dives.html [101gg] If we’re going to bring you the high points of the A-League, it’s only fair to flip it over and show their red-cheek moments, too. The dives are wonderful, some of them even worthy of a spot in the Diving Hall of Fame, but they really pushed the envelope with the mid-80’s infomercial montage set to [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/theres-a-down-under-joke-somewhere-in-here-a-league-dives.html/feed 3 http://www.theoffside.com/australia/a-league-goals-of-the-season-09-10.html http://www.theoffside.com/australia/a-league-goals-of-the-season-09-10.html#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:24:35 +0000 Rob http://www.theoffside.com/australia/a-league-goals-of-the-season-09-10.html I don’t know very much about the A-League. If you want some really interesting in-depth stuff about a league you might not know that much about well, then head over to the rather excellent A-League Offside, which has taught me what little I know. What I do know about it is this. It’s got 10 [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/australia/a-league-goals-of-the-season-09-10.html/feed 10 http://www.theoffside.com/australia/the-great-australian-commentator-of-death.html http://www.theoffside.com/australia/the-great-australian-commentator-of-death.html#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:30:07 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/australia/the-great-australian-commentator-of-death.html [Dirty Tackle] How often have we heard this happen? Once a weekend? The commentator, not knowing the magical powers he (or she) wields, stammers on endlessly about the brilliance of something, someone, and only succeeds in tempting the fates into providing us with the precise opposite. Even fans without superstitions have been guilty of firing objects [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/australia/the-great-australian-commentator-of-death.html/feed 5 http://www.theoffside.com/australia/the-a-league-average-attendance-is-down-canberran-complaints-are-up.html http://www.theoffside.com/australia/the-a-league-average-attendance-is-down-canberran-complaints-are-up.html#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:59:18 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/australia/the-a-league-average-attendance-is-down-canberran-complaints-are-up.html Not everyone is happy with the A-League right now. Attendances are down on last season, with average crowds of 6,200 for last week’s matches*. Football Federation boss Ben Buckley has tried to put a positive spin on those numbers, by (somewhat bizarrely) claiming it was all part of the plan: “If you look at the crowd [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/australia/the-a-league-average-attendance-is-down-canberran-complaints-are-up.html/feed 16 http://www.theoffside.com/australia/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-diving-in-football.html http://www.theoffside.com/australia/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-diving-in-football.html#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:20:23 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/australia/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-diving-in-football.html Diving is the scourge of soccer. The ugly pimple on the otherwise beautiful face of football. Mostly because it’s cheap. In a game that offer so much in terms of honour and sportsmanship, too many players too often look to fool the ref and gain an advantage. Just as bad, it’s also the stick that the soccer [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/australia/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-diving-in-football.html/feed 14 http://www.theoffside.com/australia/mark-bosnich-is-back.html http://www.theoffside.com/australia/mark-bosnich-is-back.html#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:00:49 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/australia/mark-bosnich-is-back.html If you’re overweight and bankrupt, then what better solution than a return to professional football? You get lots of exercise, and the money’s pretty damn good. Even in the A-League. Ex-Villa, Man Utd and Chelsea keeper (and, we might add, ex-cocaine fiend) Mark Bosnich tried the big comeback last season at 35 years old, but his [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/australia/mark-bosnich-is-back.html/feed 3