Matthew Hall

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Maradona, England, & World Cup Destiny

In the week's least surprising news (ever), England are now destined to win the World Cup.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Football and The Plague

"All I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football."

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Will Football Yobs Kill England's World Cup Bid?

Outrage swept across England earlier this year at the prospect of Rome hosting the final of the UEFA Champions League Final.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

International Consultants & Your World Cup Money

Members of Australia's "bid team", some of the people working to bring the FIFA World Cup to Australian shores in 2018 or 2022, fly to Switzerland this weekend.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

The Complicated Case of Manchester City

Right minded people - and there must be a few of you out there, surely - will prefer Manchester City be relegated from the Premier League this season.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

The A-League Returns, So Bring On The Clowns

Quotes, chaos, drama, soap, egos, idiots, and entertainment.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

The Elephant In The Room

It's a great time for football in Australia - except for one thing we dare not talk about.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

The Silly Season

Thankfully, Cristiano Ronaldo's soap opera transfer saga was painlessly short this year. But that just left more time for suffering elsewhere.

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Beckham's Epic American Fail

This weekend, David Beckham will run on to the pitch with AC Milan. Unfortunately for him, he'll be wearing a Los Angeles Galaxy shirt.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Recession? What Recession?

80,000 Spaniards can't be wrong. Can they?

Saturday, July 4, 2009

When Worlds Don't Collide

If they could, would Australia's Indigenous kids want to be David Beckham?

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Bring Back Australian Romance

Last week's win by the USA over Spain has wider implications than just another case of flukey giant killing.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Tim Cahill's "Drunken" Dramas

And on the seventh day, we finally got some truth.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Cristiano Ronaldo's Unreal Madrid

It's official: the world has gone mad.

Matthew Hall

Matthew Hall has reported from three World Cups and watched Australians play football in Zagreb, Madrid, Milan, Montevideo, and Wigan. He once drove around Bondi in a Hyundai Excel with Harry Kewell.

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