"... And you're not even Irish"!:giggle:

Fourth is not a natural position for Beograd, their usual position is much lower.

Ah yes, those "primitive" Albanians just won't assimilate:(

I played on it many years ago. Doesn't look much different today.

A 1,600 crowd at Frank Mitchell suggests that more in Adelaide care about minor local football than in many other places.

Imagine trying to build this up as a "dangerous" match. Storm in a teacup, and it's no wonder most fans in Adelaide prefer to watch United in the A League. Albanian clubs long history of misbhaviour in SASL will not have won them many fans.

Lol! Beograd are not exactly amongst Adelaide's top teams!

The belt of small towns just south of Leeds- Wakefield, Castleford, Featherstone etc- are hotspots of rugby league too. Leeds United, who replaced Leeds City in 1920, took a long time to get going as a soccer club. In fact won zilch until Revie took over in the 1960s. (But why is this in...

Letterkenny is a fun Canadian comedy. Repeats are on at the moment.

Even though it is really a rugby league town;)

So how do you explain the large amount of CTE and dementia suffered by British footballers who played in the 60s and 70s? Almost the entire England world cup team of 1966 (all dead now except Geoff Hurst) had these problems. Jeff Astle would head the ball hundreds of times in training as well...

A shame- I had a lot of contact with Alan; he first drew my attention to the fact that quite a few of the league tables in The History of Soccer in South Australia book are incorrect.

There are not many EPL players in the Egyptian side; most are home based. Egypt are not a major soccer power, so we should beat them. Having said that, I can't see where our goals are coming from. None in the last two games. We have no established centre forward, and Irankunda is not being used...

AFL refusing to acknowledge the risk to players for fear that it will damage their precious "brand".

How come Paraguay have played already whilst we get an extra four days rest?

Was that the match where Kevin Muscat chopped down the French centre forward Dugarry?

Lots of people on overseas forums and X saying that Australia-Paraguay was the most boring game of the world cup, and that it was probably fixed to be a draw! Thoughts?

When Ivan was (briefly) at Adelaide City, he did a questionaire in a match program. In answer to the question "what advice would you give young players?" he replied "don't listen to advice, just do your own thing"!

Ivan Zelic LOL He was as loopy as his brother and sister.

Irankuda wasted in the centre forward position. He did manage to knock a Paraguayan defender into the middle of next week, though.