Most people in Germany just watch local football. Fourth-tier Fortuna Köln drew more than 7,000 to the Südstadion for their regional Mittelrhein cup clash with Alemannia Aachen on a cold Wednesday night in midweek. The Premier League has its fans, of course, but from my experience... the...

Begs the question, then, of why beIN Australia suddenly stopped showing a league they were happy to broadcast for years...

I would love to see a renovated Perry Park become the home of football in Brisbane. But I do wonder, with good reason, if the club have plans to try and move elsewhere.

I was a season ticket holder at Shimizu S-Pulse and have been to at least a hundred J. League games over the years. I think one thing we often forget is just how much Japanese culture is geared towards community engagement and participation. It's easy to look at J. League attendances and...

I'm not so sure about that. Not only did beIN Australia visit Europe last year to discuss a raft of broadcast rights, but they had a vested interest in covering a league in which the flagship club is nominally owned by the same state. As far as I'm aware, they made every effort to re-sign a new...

This is an interesting thread... but unfortunately it's also a reminder of European attitudes towards Australians. Because when Ligue 1's TV deal with beIN Sports lapsed, and it first went to DAZN and subsequently moved in-house (because DAZN refused to pay for it, which is something we need to...

The Roar made money for years... there was never a question of the website failing to cover costs from what it made on advertising. The site was simply bought by a couple of guys who stopped paying everything - bills, contributors, wages etc. Those guys are now facing legal action from...

I dare say it has a lot to do with the SMH’s singular dedicated football reporter currently being in Milan to cover the Winter Olympics. But the visceral reaction to my post is instructive… because I think as A-League fans we’re all really good at shooting the messenger without always trying to...

The SMH have stated many times that the biggest reason for the lack of A-League coverage is because relatively few people read it. They used to cover the A-League extensively when the late Mike Cockerill and Michael Lynch worked for Fairfax, but there's little commercial imperative for them to...

I don’t think it’s a particularly intelligent way to go about things either - but I’m not the Australian Professional Leagues, I merely write about what they do. What I will say is that most fans appear to have only a very basic understanding of the economic forces at play. Pricing every...

You got your wish mate. https://football360.com.au/cristian-volpato-interview-football-360/ I also had a chat with the new Borussia Dortmund chief executive the other day. Primarily because there's some work going on in the background to try and stage a pre-season friendly between the...

I'd love to know if Dr Field thinks female physiology makes women more susceptible to ACL injuries.

Unfortunately, the reason Cricket Australia and the AFL price their tickets that way is because they have significant broadcast deals. Football just doesn't bring in anywhere near the same TV revenue, which is why the game's administrators try to squeeze every last dollar from existing fans.

I've got a feature on South Melbourne running in the February issue of World Soccer magazine. Any fans keen to have a quick chat for it? Please DM if you're interested.

The biggest fumble every A-League clubs makes every single season is putting 99.9% of their resources into football departments and about 0.1% into everything else. The lack of marketing has been a serious problem for more than a decade, but for some reason everyone - clubs, the APL, even the...

The press conference after the 1-0 win over Macarthur was interesting. Michael Valkanis came in and absolutely dominated the room. I don't think the team will have any issue with motivation this season.

I was at the Moreton City Excelsior game at Perry Park yesterday. I had a chat with the coach, Cam Millar, and the club president in the build-up. They struck me as being a terrifically-run club.

I just bought a big box of Nutri Grain. Bacon and hash browns on Sunday.

I'm all for it. We needed something to bridge the gap between the A-League and the state leagues, and as we saw from the opening round, there's some genuine interest there. I had a chat with the Moreton City Excelsior coach today, and he was buzzing about the whole thing. I really think it's...

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