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9 May 2008

After months of silence we get three responses in 24-hours to Matty Lamington's '150 years of Failure'. The first was illiterate so there is no point in posting it. Here are the other two:


Dear 'Das Libero'

Bahahahahah.

Another nerdy A-league fan. Gotta love Wogball. Australians love watching soft cocks roll around feigning injuries, after all it's the Australian way. I'd rather watch a mens game. Hell netball allows more contact than soccer. Soccer players spend more time kicking at each others ankles than the ball. LOL

Was it Pim who labelled the A-league a joke???????????????? LOL

The A-league is a league full of has beens, hacks and leftovers. How lucky we are to be treated with such great 'head-tennis'. And the winning team gets a dunny seat trophy for all their hard work.

Aussie's love watching 0-0 draws on the weekends, Who doesn't......

Soccer goes like this. Pass, pass pass pass pass pass....................Game over thanks for coming. LOL

The A-league will fold soon enough don't you worry mate. People just stop watching rubbish after a while, just ask the NBL how it all pans out for 3rd rate compititions in Australia.

Watch the crappy A-league sink while the AFL continues to be #1 and piss all over your cruddy league. How's Perth Glory going by the way? LOL. Wellington next in line to fold and your back to square one (NSL). Face it, your doomed. Teams can't make a profit and you will never get onto FTA because your crappy sport doesn't allow for commercial breaks, HA. FFA in millions of dollars in debt and all the cost for the national teams means the A-league gets the shit end of the stick. No talent coming through juniors like the stars that are going to be in the AFL draft. More oppurtunity and they know whats popular too. I mean who would want to play soccer professionally when you most lkely end up playing in 2nd division leagues in Japan, Turkey, Germany where your little to nothing. You recruited an AFL excecutive to run your sport in this country so I take the AFL are the big boys leading the way and will forever and a day.

And by the way the AFL has the 2nd largest crowd attendence in the world, 1st is the NFL. That means it atrracts bigger crowds than any soccer league you paranoid wank. I've seen more seagulls than people at some A-league games, I guess that's why AFL has massive crowds because it's an EXCITING sport, not one that shit's you to tears. And how about this year when the A-league pre-lim was on the same night as a practice AFL match. His how it went-

A-league pre-lim final - 16,000 people

AFL practice match - 32,000 people

Pretty bleak for the A-league huh?

My pommie mates say the A-league won't survive long term because it's so shit boring to watch, not to mention all the useless hacks running around. And they know more about soccer than you do mate trust me, they breathe soccer. Australians would rather go to the footy where there is a crowd and watch Our Indigenous Australians take screamers from the heavens than watch some amatuer brazillian hack that no-one has heard of spend his time arguing with refs. LOL

There are plenty of sports fans out there who can't be conned. They are canny observers who are aware the A-league is a pathetic excuse for a professional league that bears no comparison with other top leagues all around the world.

Self-belief can be a wonderful thing but it can also become self-delusion..............

I can detect your jelousy from your ridiculous outburst on the AFL that left the opening there for the return king hit. As you have read this I can hear your heart sink from miles away. Muppets like you need to be told a few home truths. Enjoy your poofter ball, pommie game that bores people so much they they start riots, just like that simpsons episode when they were yelling out to the players to do something. Oh dear.............

The Australian game, the Indigenous game, Our game......................

Jack Fisher


Dear 'Das Libero'

hahahaha...... your a funny bugger but more of a dickhead, I hate to break it to you matty I think that's your name but AFL is the no.1 sport in oz and wog ball, thugby or the union bum sniffers will never surpass it - Fact

Its no.1 for attendances (avg over 40,000 in 08) 3rd in the WORLD
no.1 for participation (over 700,000 participants, not incl Auskick)
no.1 for TV ratings audience most viewed sport

Last time I checked 12 million was quite a few people, I think its more like 16 million but anyway...so that leaves 6 million for union, rugby and soccer- now thats funny dont you think? People like you must remember that you like me live in AUSTRALIA not England or Italy and guess what as mush as you shiver with fear everytime you realise how pittyful soccer is and continue to be in this country AFL WILL BE NO.1- Deal with it mate

Oh and on your point of Sydneysiders tuning in- try 900,000 for the 05,06 GF'S or avg att of 54,000 at ANZ stadium, figures that wogball and thugby can only dream of!!! well they probly do dream of them hey....

Shall I go on matty boy, I wont embarrass you with the other codes attendances!
We live in Australia NOT Europe, this code is unique to us, why would WE want 6billion others to follow it - I don't, ITS OUR GAME!!!

Anyway you made me laugh I must say

regards

Shane Rowe

 

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DAS LIBERO 01
Contents
 
OPINION

Who Pays for Local Soccer?

Has The FFA got it right this time?

Scraping the Ising from the A League Souffle

Juve or Not Juve: That's the Question
 
ANALYSIS
Roy Hay asks "Why Newcastle and not Geelong?"
 
LIBERO FILES
Vijay Khurana has intercepted an FFA letter with a radical proposal to the EPL
 
REVIEWS
Australia United That Bastard Tony Wilson perplexes Jesse Fink
15 Days in June Tony Wilson spends a night on the couch with Jesse Fink

From Sheffield with Love
Roy Hay reviews a loving history of the world's oldest football club.

Crunch Time Phillip Dimitriadis takes a look at a kids' novel for paranoid AFL supporters.

Green Gully Soccer Club: 50 Years Paul Mavroudis celebrates a welcome addition to Australian football club histories.

Soccer Boom Paul Mavroudis reviews a crucial revision of the post war history of Victorian football.
Bad Boys Phillip Dimitriadis has a swipe at Roy Masters' attempt to talk about football's bad boys.
 
OBITUARY
Frank Loughran, 1931–2008
 
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