Daily Telegraph anti-football

[goingtoadisco]

idiots.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Keep playing Lolman for the 'Roos and I might become anti football.

 

[adz]

club before country

 

[midfielder]

David Penberthy is one of the senior editor editors at the TerrOR ...

His article on the WC below is curious ... there are many issues I feel like screaming at him... but maybe it says until his like are removed from senior positions in the Australian media football will struggle with mainstream media ... or that he feels he needs to defend RL or attack football who knows...

Simon Hill's famous article ...Can You Smell the Fear ... was based on the TerrOR's reporting of race riots at a Sydney United V White Eagles match ... were 6 people we arrested while at a St George (RL) match over 50 arrests were made with no reporting... the Timmy Cahill another example of what is the reason behind all this...

David Penberthy has written some interesting stuff .. this one about racist http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/were-racist-but-its-not-personal/story-e6frezz0-1225720492883  which males me think he seems a decent kinda of guy


So why do the TerrOr continue with this line ... is it simply to sell papers... but this is an article from one of the senior editors not a hack ... why say the NRL and AFL need to fear football ..

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl-faces-a-new-foe/story-e6frexni-1225878846183

NRL faces a new foe

By David Penberthy From:

The Sunday Terrorgraph June 13, 2010

AS the AFL and NRL play tit-for-tat over the poaching of Israel Folau, with Greg Inglis the next target on the AFL's list, there's a much bigger threat which will expose this battle for the sandpit squabble it is.

Last Thursday, half a world away from AFL House at Melbourne's Docklands and NRL headquarters at Sydney's Fox Studios, traffic choked to a halt in the centre of Johannesburg as 185,000 fans lined the streets to cheer Bafana Bafana, the South African national team.

Here in South Africa, where football has long been disorganised, underfunded and unprofessional and where the host nation has little chance of progressing in a group comprising France, Mexico and Uruguay, the entire nation has gone ga-ga over the game.

In the former home of apartheid, rugby union was always the white person's game and football the black person's. But the 2010 World Cup means that football is now South Africa's game, a vehicle for national unity, national celebration, national pride. Any kid who doesn't play, any adult who doesn't have a team, anyone who doesn't own a vuvuzela is rushing out to buy one as the country throws itself headlong into the round ball game.

If the NRL, AFL and ARU have a worst-case scenario, this is it - in 12 years, similar scenes will be played out on the streets of Australia, where soccer, as it's most commonly known, has gone from a dysfunctional, ethnically-dominated shambles to a credible mainstream pursuit.

The recent stink between the codes over access to stadiums and the provision of compensation for reduced crowds and TV audience was a superficial stand-off.

It had much less to do with stadiums and crowds than it did with the sheer terror felt by the non-soccer codes at the explosion a World Cup could trigger in Australian sport.

The sporting landscape in Australia is now a four-way contest in which the AFL is strongest and the NRL runs a proud second. Both codes command a mass audience, both codes are here to stay. Union is in the most strife. It has failed to broaden its fan base. Get along to any Wallabies match and the crowd is largely made up of blokes in cufflinks and Henry Bucks overcoats who have nipped down from Martin Place to punch in a few Stella Artois after a hard week's stockbroking.

While coming off a low base, and sputtering somewhat over the past couple of years, soccer has achieved the fastest growth in crowd numbers and TV audience, and the quickest transition in its culture and management. Just over a decade ago there was every chance you'd get hit with a flare or be confronted in the car park by an excitable group of youths chanting race-hate ditties in a foreign tongue. Through the creation of the FFA, soccer has now become viable.

The A-League is not without its problems. The fact that our national coach Pim Verbeek openly bags the competition with plenty of justification is a poor reflection on its quality. The continuing exodus of talented young Australian players to overseas leagues will continue to weaken the domestic competition. But for all that, the growth has been stellar. And the biggest shot in the arm it could hope for is to secure a World Cup for Australia. Which it might just be about to do.

Despite being death-ridden by a few sadsacks, our World Cup bid could hardly be going better.

Headed by Westfield founder and FFA chairman Frank Lowy, the Australian bid team announced last week that they had dropped their candidacy for 2018 to concentrate on 2022. This gives Europe an almost guaranteed shot at the 2018 cup and, in return, shifts European support behind our bid. And with eight of the 24 FIFA executive members being European, and German soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer openly backing our bid, 2022 is now looking like a near certainty.

 

[Arabmariner]

club before country

+1

 

[FFC Mariner]

club before country

+1

+2 He scores with his left, he scores with his riiight etc

 

[serious14]

"Despite being death-ridden by a few sadsacks, our World Cup bid could hardly be going better".

Then stop letting your Sports Editor-in-Chief (Rothfield) print the shit that he does..... simple, no??