Soccerphobia Australia

• Aug 25 2012, Ending the ethnic turf wars played out on Australia's soccer pitches is David Gallop's first task (Rebecca Wilson)
• Aug 22 2012, Hands Off Our Footy Oval
• Jul 31 2010, Distance fails to diminish the epic that is AFL footy
• Jul 12, 2010 Time for Australia to get behind the 2022 World Cup bid (pro-soccer) comment on World Cup bid
• Jul 2010, Jim Main Bring on the Beautiful Game
• Jul 1, 2010 World Cup soccer fans abandon reality for fantasy, says Neil Mitchell
• Jun 30. 2010 Jason Akermanis 'Soccer takes a dive at World Cup'
• Jun 26, 2010 Rebecca Wilson 'An ordinary display'
• Jun 25, 2010 James Hird, 'Who dares wins'
• Jun 24, 2010, Football, football, football...
• Jun 17, 2010 Danny Katz, 'Some people just don't get it'
• Jun 15 2010, John Birmingham, 'Soccer in Australia will never be anything more than a lame joke'
• Jun 13 2010, 'NRL faces a new foe'
• Jun 2010, 'Sorry, but I’m not sold on the Socceroos yet'
• Jun 9 World Cup diving
• Jun/July 2010, John Birmingham on 'Soccer's Blown Goal'
• May 28 2010, All aboard the ’soccer haters’ bandwagon!
• May 25 2010, 'Socceroos snorefest a sign of things to come'
• Jun 21, 2009, Star breaks silence on 'disgraceful' behaviour (Phil Rothfield reveals what is starting to look like his obsession)
• Jun 18, 2009, Tim Cahill's sour grapes overshadow win Adam Mobbs
• Jun 17, 2009, Pampered soccer elite could learn from League by Stathi Paxinos ('sub-moronic' would be a kind assessment)
• Jun 14, 2009, 'Socceroos star Tim Cahill allegedly in altercation with bouncers in Kings Cross' by David Riccio (while Riccio has a modicum of a point, his hysteria and use of hyperbole point to a highly developed soccerphobia)
• Jun 14, 2009, NRL would throw the book at Cahill
• Jun 13, 2009, Heroic Socceroos in desperate need of a few scamps and villains (not as phobic as some but still silly)
• Jun 10, 2009, Why Pim is holding soccer back (Phil Rothfield giving some advice to the game he despises)
• Feb 14, 2008, 'Defensive soccer bores me witless'
• Nov 17, 2008 'Columnist Rebecca Wilson slams Reds as humiliating'
• Nov 13, 2008 'Quality beats home-grown' Richard Hinds
• Mar 11, 2007 'Put a soccer in it: Why I can't stand the game', Peter Goers
• Jan 30, 2007 I don't like Soccer - it's a Stupid Game Phill Chadwick
• June 28, 2006 Ugly aspects of the beautiful game, Malcolm Knox,
• June 27, 2006 A force more powerful than footy, Gary Lyon (a thoughtful and positive piece by the ex-AFL star about rejecting soccerphobia)
• June 20, 2006 Is Australia ready for a new national game? No, John Birmingham (Originally published in the Bulletin but wisely taken down from their site)
• May 16, 2006 + May 31, 2005 Can You Smell the Fear? Parts 1 and 2 , Simon Hill
• Nov 27 2005 World game needs a little respect to win us over, Kevin Naughton + Phil Chadwick's response
• Nov 19, 2005 Why I fear for our own beautiful game, Geoffrey Blainey, (a good piece that openly and temperately expresses the author's fears for Australian Rules)
• December 18, 2004, Richard Hinds Call it what you like, but to many of us it's just not footy
  (a reasonable piece that nonetheless misunderstands the fact that Rugby League and Australian Rules are not cultural equivalents)
• May 23 2003 AFL can repel soccer challenge: SOS
• Anyone for a game of Wogball? Anthony Ferguson
• Soccer, the racist code! (this article has been since edited to remove some of its silliness -- though some still remains)

Australian Soccerphobes role of honour

John Birmingham
Is Australia ready for a new national game? No,

Leonard Colquhoun
The Obsession of Lenny
*Playing with globalised balls

Michael Duffy
Give World Cup the boot

Steve Price
Uruguay Game 2001

Peter Fitzsimons
at his petulant best
*more spleen

Mike Sheahan
Soccer just too ho-hum
*follow up of the above

Michael Voss
Soccer our top sport?

Ray Hadley
What? Me? Hate soccer? (scroll down to bottom)

Jason Akermanis
discussed on-line