Dave’s Football Blog

God, I love Australia. Nowhere else in the world will you find so many football codes constantly warring with each other for the hearts and minds of the people. How many epic pub brawls have started over rugby league fans calling Aussie rules a girl’s game, or vice versa? The world may never know, and [...]

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Three years ago, I wrote about Carolina Panthers v. New Orleans Saints game in which the Saints, down by four points with 1:56 left to go, failed to stop DeShaun Foster from getting a key first down and let him run into the end zone for a touchdown. The Saints then scored a TD of [...]

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While it might be hidden underneath the news that the Olympics found an excuse to give Tiger Woods a gold medal if he wants one — and really, what else can you get the man who has everything? — the addition of rugby sevens to the 2016 and 2020 Olympics has to be viewed as [...]

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If you’re going to introduce another football code in America, where the gridiron game is king and the Association game is still that filthy pinko commie game those greasy-haired Europeans play, you have two options. You can fire up the satellites and show people the top levels of the game overseas — like what Fox [...]

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Let’s compare, shall we? First, the Corinthians v. Avai dust-up in Brazil: Next, Scotland v. Fiji turns into a boxing match at the Rugby League World Cup: The difference? For one, the soccer fight dragged on for a little while, and all sorts of side skirmishes broke out, whereas the rugby fight, while clearly fiercer, [...]

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Apparently, “soccer” has become a dirty word down under… It has been widely reported that if Australia is to host soccer’s major event, then the only stadia capable of holding adequate crowds across the various states will be AFL and NRL venues. Ironically that is because soccer has not had sufficient success to build large [...]

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