Tell us what you really think Jeff!

[MrCelery]

http://www.theherald.com.au/blogs/jeff-corbett/world-cup-diving/1852753.aspx

The paper article was interminably longer and repetitive.

Just what you'd expect from a Bogan Scum reporter.

 

[midfielder]

Must look tomorrow to see if they print my response ... you can certainly smell the fear in some egg ball jurno's.

 

[curious]

He is no more an egg ball journo than I'm Mother Teresa. He often treats league with the same  contempt to get as big a public rise as possible.
In fact, if you blokes cared to look you would have seen he is a cheap shot shit stirrer only, on any subject from tattoos to refugees through to gay bashing and anti 4x4 paranoia. The more hate he can generate, the more controversy leading to more hits on their website. You should have well and truly known this, celery.

Come in spinner. His garbage has once again been justified with all the comments and obvious hits.
 

 

[serious14]

S'alright Jeff - we see you hiding in the closet.

 

[bjw]

FOAD

 

[MrCelery]

He is no more an egg ball journo than I'm Mother Teresa. He often treats league with the same  contempt to get as big a public rise as possible.
In fact, if you blokes cared to look you would have seen he is a cheap shot shit stirrer only, on any subject from tattoos to refugees through to gay bashing and anti 4x4 paranoia. The more hate he can generate, the more controversy leading to more hits on their website. You should have well and truly known this, celery.

Come in spinner. His garbage has once again been justified with all the comments and obvious hits.
 

I know all this Curious. I just like feeding the troll. Watch for my post.

 

[midfielder]

It's not that long ago we had to put up this kinda of stuff ... just before 2006 WC...

http://vulgar.com.au/libero/birminghamj.html

 

[MrCelery]

It's not that long ago we had to put up this kinda of stuff ... just before 2006 WC...

http://vulgar.com.au/libero/birminghamj.html

Good little website that. Intelligent article on soccerphobia. Thanks for the link midfielder.

 

[p-diddy]

Just what you'd expect from a Bogan Scum reporter.

So the man who's article shows a clear dislike for football, and berates football and football fans in general, is actually a Jets fan?

Right...

 

[priorpeter]

Just what you'd expect from a Bogan Scum reporter.

So the man who's article shows a clear dislike for football, and berates football and football fans in general, is actually a Jets fan?

Right...

Good to see you recognise your own.

 

[p-diddy]

 

[midfielder]

It's not that long ago we had to put up this kinda of stuff ... just before 2006 WC...

http://vulgar.com.au/libero/birminghamj.html

It's not that long ago we had to put up this kinda of stuff ... just before 2006 WC...

http://vulgar.com.au/libero/birminghamj.html

Good little website that. Intelligent article on soccerphobia. Thanks for the link midfielder.

Well he is back again I will let his article speak for itself...

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/blogs/blunt-instrument/soccer-in-australia-will-never-be-anything-more-than-a-lame-joke/20100614-ya1q.html


Soccer in Australia will never be anything more than a lame joke

Is it time to put soccer out of our misery in this country? I'm just asking is all. It's just that we go through this every four years. Well, I don't. And millions of others don't. But the sad, bug-eyed fanaticism of those few lonely, desperate and destined-to be-disappointed soccer loons is getting to be too much for even one such as me to bear. And my lack of caring about soccer is a vast, airless echo chamber of not caring. Possibly vaster.

So Germany beat us. SFW. We've always beaten them where it counted. At Alamein, on the Western front, and I reckon we'd totally beat their Teutonic arsenbttoms at Eurovision song writing if we were allowed in. But they were always going to beat us in soccer, the same way that Algeria or the Virgin Islands or the Seychelles or whoever we play next is also going to pound us to pink jelly.

As a humane society, I think it's wrong that we allow this cruelty to go on. Soccer will never be anything more than a minority pursuit in Australia, and we will never be anything more than a lame joke internationally. It doesn't matter how many times the game is restructured. It doesn't matter how much sponsorship is poured in. It doesn't matter how much Australian soccer fans really, really, really want the national team to do well. It's never going to happen.

Remember the great Simpsons joke about the football match to decide the most powerful sporting nation in the world, Uruguay or Paraguay, or Portugal or whatever? It's funny because it's true. Sort of. It's never going to happen for England. It will only occasionally happen for Germany. So what the hell makes us think it would ever happen for us? The best thing for everyone, I think, is if we have a word with the Ruddbot and get him to tweak his net censorship legislation, so that the interwebz are no longer illegal, but kicking a round ball about a muddy field while being watched by half a dozen sad faced obsessives is no longer allowed.

Soccer will never go anywhere in Australia because the base is not there and never will be. Why not? Because soccer's weakness in this country is self reinforcing. A great rugby player, a great league player, an AFL champion, they might move from club to club, but there is no need for them to ever set foot outside the country to earn a living. Fans can head down to the local park on the weekend knowing that they have a good chance of seeing some of the best talent in the world. For a great soccer player, however, Australia is the arse end of the world. They have no choice. They have to leave if they are to play the game as well as it can be played.

And for as long as the cream of our talent is drawn to Europe, the local game will remain nothing but an oddity and a joke. I guess if you need an excuse to stay up all night every four years, it's not a bad thing. But that's why we have the Olympics. Or even the Winter Olympics. Where we have more chance of winning something than we will be in South Africa over the next two weeks.

 

[Sym]

lol

this is guy is such a muppet.

 

[mariners4ever]

lol, at least we now know that there is a writer/columnist worse then rebecca wilson

 

[dibo]

Surely I'm not the only one who goes "meh, who cares"?

These people are wind up merchants. They're trolls. Feed them with indignant outrage and you give them oxygen. All the while their editors are running daily 8-page liftouts about our sport.

I couldn't give a f**k what they write - everyone knows all about the World Cup at the moment and tv companies are literally whipping out *tasers* on one another for the right to film football-related stories.

Ignore the trolls and let's try to enjoy ourselves for once in a while.

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

To suggest that the base is not there and never will be just shows his extreme ignorance of the history of the game in Australia.

Can't believe how amateurish that blog is written - it reads like a blogspot blog by a nobody.  How the hell is he getting paid for that?

I can't decide if he's serious or if he's just trying to cause a reaction, and frankly I don't even care.  Football's endured far more intelligent attacks than what this monkey can conjure.

It's not even worth getting angry over - the phrase 'don't feed the troll' comes to mind...

I'd love to compare the TV ratings of the world cup against the last rugby league "world" cup

 

[Das Libero]

Birmingham's an interesting one because he was born in Liverpool and his old man was a soccer supporter. When he arrived in Brisbane he was confronted with this Rugby League culture which a soft boy like him was utterly intimidated by. Part of his 'hardening up' has been to take on the uber-masculine rejection of soccer some parts of RL culture requires.

 

[hasbeen]

Ah yes, the great John Birmingham ... "He Died with a Felafel for a Brain"

 

[midfielder]

Our poor cousins in the Southern states... FARK ... let the article speak for itself... but Fark ...


To think this guy is on the ABC is well not sure ... but our southern cousins have a battle for media ..

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/put-a-soccer-in-it-why-i-cant-stand-the-game/story-e6freafu-1111113132622

Put a soccer in it: Why I can't stand the game

SOCCER is like life; boredom and frustration relieved by the occasional score.

Will Adelaide United ever score again? It's certainly not kicking goals for South Australia.

We have a great game in Australia.

It's fast, rambunctious and thrilling. It's not soccer.

Australian Rules football is ours and we love it and your team can always aspire to be as good and as grand as the glorious Port Adelaide Football Club the most successful in the nation.

Do we really need professional soccer? It's more trouble than it's worth.

Adelaide United is pathetic and is failing our great sporting state.

Perhaps the only thing that will save soccer in SA is if the noble, popular Adelaide City, in its black and white uniforms, joins the A-League and then we might see some serious competition.



Soccer is a stupid game riven with ethnic division and violence between supporters.

It gives multiculturalism a bad name. It's un-Australian and it suits more passionate nations.

The ultimate insult is that we're supposed to call it football.

It's soccer where monstrous egos bump balls with their heads thus dislodging brain cells which suits its supporters who also beat the bejesus out of each others' heads thus dislodging their own brain cells.

This low-scoring, minimalist and occasionally elegant game leads to great frustration and you can understand why supporters beat themselves up because then at least something happens.

There are games in which no one scores. Nil. Nil.

Crowd violence is almost unknown in Australian Rules one of the great features of our great game.

However, soccer is a fine participatory sport for the young and the most popular in the world.

It's cheap and accessible to play and mums love it because their little darlings are unlikely to be thumped. The great paradox of soccer in Australia is that the popularity of it as a game for young players does not transfer to support for the game at a professional level.

Conversely, Australian Rules is not much played anymore by the young but hugely and joyously supported.

In this respect soccer is like lawn bowls and not as exciting lots of people play it but not many watch it, and who could blame them.

It's not much helped by the fact that soccer in SA shoots itself in the foot every six months.

It self-destructs. It seems jinxed.

We had decades of the immigrant teams like Juventus, Hellas, Polonia, Baloney and Beograd who hated each other more than they loved the game.

The expensive rebuilding of Hindmarsh Stadium was dogged by controversy and with a capacity of 16,500, how many times has it been full? Then there was the debacle of Adelaide City fine team that it was and remains, but it exhausted the deep pockets of its backers.

Now we're lumbered with Adelaide United perhaps the worst team ever to supposedly represent our state in any sport. It is unworthy to be called South Australian.

ADELAIDE United is united only by failure and ineptitude, and I'm invoking the great Australian tradition of kicking a team when it's down.

The damage of the grand final against Melbourne Victory will take years to repair not the shocking loss but the worst example of bad sportsmanship at an "elite" level ever observed in this country.

On Wednesday Adelaide United enjoyed a fresh loss to Shandong Luneng without scoring a goal.

Was Romario playing? That ancient Brazilian was brought here last year for a reputed quarter of a million dollars and managed one goal in four games. A very expensive goal.

I could've done just as well and I'm available. I'm completely hopeless which means I'll be well-suited to the ridiculous Adelaide United.

The future of soccer is bleak. Any spectacular Australian player is soon wooed overseas by mega bucks.

Fortunately they come home to play for the Socceroos who've achieved success and play the only Australian soccer worth watching.

I salute school players and old blokes who've kept the game alive and fine commentators like John Thompson-Mills, Allan Crisp, Meno Toutsidis, Val Migliaccio, Daniel Lato and the money men; Gordon Pickard, Nick Bianco and Bob D'Ottavi, but professional soccer in SA is not worthy of any of them.

Meanwhile Adelaide United has two yellow cards and I'm seeing red.

Peter Goers can be heard weeknights on 891 ABC Adelaide.

 

[adz]

Clearly satire. South Australia a "great sporting state"? Funny stuff.