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No Henrikh Mkhitaryan kit❓ For shame - as if she couldn’t be any more out-of-pocket w/her fellow-Armenians🇦🇲

Polarising only to those who don’t have anywhere near the best interests of the nation at heart. As politicians go, neither Albo nor Pauline Hanson could never⚠️

Exactly, it’s not envy for envy’s sake per se but resentment at the fact those people tend to use their platform for their own career-advancement rather than to keep the bastards honest. It’s my main bugbear w/those influencer-types like Claudes Fabiano, Kat Sasso, Lavender Baj etc. Even if it...

Make of it what you will but she indeed was@ the game w/her hubby Samuel Free, both decked out in Smurfs kit: And they both rocked up to the club’s end-of-season awards function several months later(this I wasn’t aware of before; I only found out while I was trawling online for proof of the...

It can’t be said too often, Eddie McGuire is a duplicitous vagina-hat when it comes to his ‘relationship' with ⚽️. And yet he still manages to hoodwink enough of us into thinking we aren’t ideologically at odds.. There’s this snippet on YouTube of his and Karl Stefanovic’s sports-podcast where...

To be fair, isn’t that true of most of us❓😉

I had some sympathy for her in light of some ppl worldwide making it a race-related thing(I think even Ice-T tweeted to the effect ‘that Aussie culture-vulture whitegirl')..but that aspect of it aside, she’s 💯% fair-game otherwise. Like @melbcityguy said, she doesn’t come across as likeable or...

Other than the fact he’s just a perennial grump❓ It’d be bc EE is for all intents&purposes a 'povvo' brand, which in the grand scheme of things it indeed is compared to Macron, let alone adidas or Nike. It took me a while to get the point of the article when they could’ve just simply stated...

Yep; I clarified that to @LFC further back in the thread.

I must admit to noticing a fair few at South’s Australia Cup home-games these past two months actually, as w/the Australian Championship last year. Plus the Paramount coverage of the last match vs. Preston zeroed in on this one particular Asian chick behind the goals😍

It’s literally the only thing I envy you lot up north for, although the holistic merit of the continued NSW/Sydney-centricness of 🇦🇺⚽️ in this day&age is a separate discussion for another day💡

The bottom-line is, they wouldn’t if they genuinely didn’t believe ⚽️ poses any level of existential-threat whatsoever to them..💡 It’s literally the 🇦🇺 domestic sporting-landscape equivalent of the bit in Batman vs. Superman where Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne comes out w/this zinger(@ 1:16-1:24...

No? It’s a term originated by the first reasonably-assimilated generation of Italian-Americans(NYers specifically, if I’m not mistaken) in the early 20th Century. Whatever floats your boat, re.

Sounds like advice for the AFL and their constituents/sycophant-media to take..💡

LOL no, what he means is you’ll overhear other spectators nearby talking about AFL or whatever. I assume that in the first decade or so of the NSL’s existence, when it was still a winter season, you’d see blokes bring their transistor-radios to the ground so they could listen to the VFL/NSWRL(as...

Never denied that. Clearly both are true in tandem.

It’s bc you mob were(and remain) salty that we were chosen as the nation’s provisional capital until Canberra was completed, instead of youse💡😉 I’ll go as far as to say that’s begun to change as more of those dual-code fans whose main ❤️ is ⚽️, are waking up to the realisation that the AFL...

As I’ve emphasised many a time, I feel grateful enough for having gotten into the game/been a tragic of it back when IMHO it still truly was the best purely-‘indigenous' football code on the planet, ie. the early-mid ‘90s. Then at decade’s end came all the needless, unasked-for rule changes...

The issue is the AFL hasn’t deigned to evolve with the times, certainly not in the way/s it actually needs to. Lighten up, brah; the point is they(the AFL powerbrokers and the absolute lowest-common-denominator portion of their fanbase ie. the Joffa types) bring that perception upon themselves...

Not harmoniously though - even in the cases of Collingwood Warriors and Carlton SC. Heck, footy bogans used to vandalise sokkah pitches w/broken-glass shards and the odd firebomb-attack back in the ‘40s through till the early ‘70s💡

It hasn’t resembled a respectable publication for a long time now. Which is a pity because despite being a Murdoch rag since day-dot, there was a time when it wasn’t at all blatant w/its ideological socio-political biases. Heck, they even used to do cartoons parodying their once-and-future Lord...

Only due to cause-and-effect.

Sounds like Tara Rushton owes it to her motherland to go run for office there and 'do a Bukele'(the current president of 🇸🇻, for context) - albeit with a girlboss touch😉

Real ones know that SEN Melbourne’s weekday breakfast-slot was never better than when Matt Granland & Jason Richardson hosted it; they always gave all sports(⚽️ included) a fair portion of air-time, as opposed to blatantly acting as the radio arm of the AFL’s propaganda-machine💡

I knew all that. Aung San Suu Kyi didn’t seem to regard them as fellow-countrymen either.

Reservoir is the name of the suburb in Melb where the team is based.

There's Reservoir Yeti(Nepalese) from Melbourne, Khalsa(Punjabi) Lions also from Melb but they play in the proverbial Sunday-leagues, not the actual FootballVIC pyramid. There was a Rohingya United some years back(from Brisbane I think) but I dunno what's new w/them; I assume they've likely...

That corpulent Indonesian dude who's a mainstay of #SokkahTwitter (He’s at far-right in this pic)👇🏼

Yep, and ultimately it failed bc of that association w/Chivas. The Mexican-Americans in LA/Chicanos who barrack for another 🇲🇽 club(and thus by default LOATHE Chivas with a passion) were never gonna get behind it, much less the other Hispanic communities such as my fellow-🇸🇻eans, for the same...

Yep, I've been noticing it among the young'uns even within the 'traditional' ⚽-loving communities here; it's the post-Y2K iteration of Eurosnobbery really.

Honestly I don’t think any 🇦🇺⚽️ administration has ever regarded Subcontinental communities as a viable clientele bc they’re stereotyped as being 🏏 tragics one-and-all. Of course mainstream/institutional-Australia as a whole has always felt the same way(not to mention helped perpetuate the...

Hence the “again”, but next time obv. as a standalone venture w/o involvement of an already-existing ⚽️ club(with the logical exception of Collingwood City) *Victoria Park Mark Howard has all the charisma of a burst condom though👎🏼

🇦🇺⚽️ can’t afford to be blasé about this though. In the case of the Subcontinental communities, just the fact AFL is played on a cricket pitch has played a gateway into them getting into that code(and continues to).

What a waste. Pendles should’ve invested that $2M into the ‘Pies fielding their own ⚽️ team again instead💡

Yes, it was primarily the Chinese it would’ve been aimed towards but without excluding the Vietnamese/other “Oriental" communities either.

Shame, as Manila Digger going through would’ve given incentive in appealing to the Filo🇵🇭 community to turn out for that one. At least Dirga is guaranteed to attend just because it’s an Indo🇮🇩 club, I suppose😉

▪️ I’ve said for years that the North Terrace(and the South End active-support too) should be reserved for members-only; this way the risk of any 'hooliganism'-adjacent funnybuggers is significantly diminished. Another idea(think I suggested it in the old FourFourTwo forum once) is perhaps...