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Amazon Reviews. There are many reasons for this — most of them self-inflicted. The grassroots also remain fractured from the elite level. That they were able to do so was because their employers trusted in their football knowledge, in their implicit understanding of what their audience, their community felt. Some of us — myself included — have tried, but resistance has been fierce.

The likes of Les and Johnny would no doubt today be labelled activists — as I have been — just for trying to cover the issues that matter in the game of football. Back in , I might even have agreed with that term myself. But then, football in Australia is a little bit different. It has to fight prejudice, antipathy and apathy in equal measure.

TWG did that, virtually alone in a media sense, for many years. To cover football properly in Australia requires a very thick skin. And the world game in Australia is a much poorer place for it. But the mission? The mission goes on. Simon Hill has been covering football for 30 years, both in his native England, and since , in Australia. Very sad news that the TWG is gone. Both organisations are. Australian soccer is a shambles.

The a-league is a joke, killed off passion of NSL and for what, the replacement is just as muddled as original. Even worse we are now importing 3rd rate foreign hacks that take opportunity from our own youth in terms od development. Simon left SBS because they were trying to control the game rather than just cover it.

So he went to Fox. Oh, the irony!! Very well written and well said. I watched Les, Johnny and Craig religiously growing up. Loan demand to slow as home prices cool. Teachers and childcare workers are now exempt from isolation rules, Scott Morrison has announced, as the country struggles to maintain its workforce in the face of Omicron.

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