Mr Cleansheets said:

Try writing about football in Scotland...

Death threats are par for the

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I must have misunderstood, I thought you were talking about Australia. I get it could happen in Scotland.

JS96 said:

How I'd love VAR to card Rivaldo for that. Probably yellow for both then?

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Honestly, the way VAR seems to be doing things, and my understanding of the rules - it’s most likely it stays as it is.

I think the long Burgess pass was originally targeting Behich who started a run. Very well done to get the Swiss moving deep. Should be done more often. Metcalfe spotted it and ran along too.

Decentric said:

List when Daniel Garb, David Weiner, Jake Rosengarten, Marco M, Joey Lynch, etc, use these terms in formulating questions to Socceroo, Matilda or AL coaches, if they hold press conferences?

I’ve never heard them.

If one hears Simon Kuper, Ralph Honigsten, Michael Cox, they do.

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JS96 said:

The group think by our former players in broadcasting is insufferable. Everything was good with a few areas to improve on. It's all about the studio vibes. Check out Rudi Völler going nuts after an Iceland game 25 years ago.

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Mr Cleansheets said:

That's exactly my point.

It's a bit like what Trump is trying to do to the media in the US... intimidate it into compliance.

Once you're no longer asking the right questions you've surrendered to false consciousness. That's the Oz football media right now.

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The size of football media is insufficient to do any of these things because there is barely interest from the public in football, let alone the nuance. It is a zero sum game for these guys. You ask questions about specific tactics, this means you get the coverage about the tactics (which no one cares about outside of football nerds), not coverage of the match. You want a fight about why obscure potential dual international A wasn't selected behind some other guy no one has heard of, no match coverage. These things are of interest to the few of us here, not the major audience. There isn't time, space and bandwidth the do more than the basics.

Garb splits his time across two orgs and is still sent to cover AFL. Marco is the only football journo at News and writes about rugby and aerial ping pong. Rugari, only football journo at fairfax, was sent to cover an AFL match over the Aleague grand final. Lynch is crowd funded / contracted as required. Rosengarten and Weiner had to found their own org to get a job. The rest who show up are just sport reporters getting a holiday for the WC.

The focus is maximising engagement. This is not coverage of any of the things being listed here. If there was more interest in the game, there would be more people to provide coverage and it could cover more angles. As it is, there isn't, so you get this type of coverage.