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	<title>The Offside &#187; Australia</title>
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		<title>The A-League: Average Attendance is Down, Canberran Complaints Are Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daryl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ben Buckley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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:
&#8220;If you look at the crowd [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beginning of the End of Diving in Football?</title>
		<link>http://www.theoffside.com/australia/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-diving-in-football.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diving]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diving is the scourge of soccer. The ugly pimple on the otherwise beautiful face of football.
Mostly because it&#8217;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&#8217;s also the stick that the soccer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Bosnich is Back!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aston Villa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Coast Mariners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chelsea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Vukovic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Bosnich]]></category>
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If you&#8217;re overweight and bankrupt, then what better solution than a return to professional football? You get lots of exercise, and the money&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Offside Euro 2008 Champion:  Charles Snyder</title>
		<link>http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/the-offside-euro-2008-champion-charles-snyder.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Martinez</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Name to Remember]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Photo of the Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over three weeks of tournament action and only one country stood tall:  Sweden.  Ibrahimovich proved to be unstoppable in the virtual world, earning glory for his country where the real world left a bit to be desired.  Standing in the finals against a tough Croatian squad, they dispatched their opponents 2-1 for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of the Day: Slipping and Sliding to Victory</title>
		<link>http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/photo-of-the-day-slipping-and-sliding-to-victory.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/photo-of-the-day-slipping-and-sliding-to-victory.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 16:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[USWNT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Womens Football]]></category>
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The Offside is now covering Women&#8217;s Soccer!  We now have a WPS blog and are just waiting for info about the teams.  In the meantime, Melissa will be covering all topics dealing with the women&#8217;s game, including national team news like this.  
This is US Women&#8217;s NT player Natasha Kai sliding past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aussie Keeper Charged With Violent Conduct On Ref</title>
		<link>http://www.theoffside.com/australia/aussie-keeper-charged-with-violent-conduct-on-ref.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theoffside.com/australia/aussie-keeper-charged-with-violent-conduct-on-ref.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Central Coast Mariners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newcastle Jets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vukovic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was a weekend marked by &#8220;violent&#8221; &#8211; even if unintentional &#8211; conduct on the pitch, as the Eduardo injury pushed absolutely everything to the back pages. Arsene started out by calling for Matrin Taylor&#8217;s career on a platter, then retracted his statement, but Taylor is surely do for a spell on the sidelines. Probably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pan-Pacific Wrap-Up</title>
		<link>http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/pan-pacific-wrap-up.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/pan-pacific-wrap-up.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an LA Galaxy fan, I was horrified by the team&#8217;s miserable performace in its 0-1 loss to Gamba Osaka on Thursday, especially when compared to Houston&#8217;s lovely 3-0 win over Sydney FC.
Now that the final and the third place games are officially over, I am no longer so panicked about the upcoming MLS season. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pan-Pacific Tournament, and What it Tells Us About MLS</title>
		<link>http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/the-pan-pacific-tournament-and-what-it-tells-us-about-mls.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/the-pan-pacific-tournament-and-what-it-tells-us-about-mls.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you watched the opening games of the Pan-Pacific Championship last night, you saw some free-flowing, attacking football that proves MLS can compete in the rest of the world.
Oh, and you also saw the LA Galaxy.
The two games of the night were a study in contrasts.  The LA game shows what happens when you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;And then bang she goes!&#8221; &#8211; the A-League Preliminary Final</title>
		<link>http://www.theoffside.com/australia/and-then-bang-she-goes-the-a-league-preliminary-final.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theoffside.com/australia/and-then-bang-she-goes-the-a-league-preliminary-final.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finals series]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newcastle Jets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preliminary final]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queensland Roar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reinaldo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tarek elrich]]></category>

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8-w8hc_Xvw

The A-League Finals series continues to entertain, wacky playoff system or not. Basically the Preliminary Final is like a semifinal, except there&#8217;s only one of them. Queensland Roar played Newcastle Jets for the right to meet Central Coast Mariners in the Grand Final and we got another action packed game. Newcastle Jets were leading 1-0 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A-League Finals &gt; MLS Playoffs</title>
		<link>http://www.theoffside.com/australia/a-league-finals-mls-playoffs.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theoffside.com/australia/a-league-finals-mls-playoffs.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam Kwasnik]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[DC United]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sasho Petrovski]]></category>

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh6CcqV4wi4

The A-League finals (or playoffs, if you prefer) continue to produce some great football. There was Reinaldo&#8217;s excellent winning goal for Queensland Roar in the Minor Semifinal on Saturday, and then on Sunday the Central Coast Mariners went into the Major Semifinal Second Leg trailing the Newcastle Jets 2-0. 
Second half goals A first half [...]]]></description>
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