Sydney FC stick it to Rebecca Wilson

Nearpost takes a huge delight in seeing one of the decreasing band of anti-football Australia sports journo being given a bit of her own.

Rebecca Wilson renowned for joining Peter FitzSimons, Patrick Smith, AFL Chief Andrew Dimitriou, John Bermingham, Paul Kent and too many others to mention for trashing Australian football or soccer as they like to say.

Well Edwin Lugt CEO Sydney FC made her look like the true professional she aspires to be.

Basically it went roughly like this:

Rebecca: Disappointing crowds for the A-League.
Edwin: Hello Rebecca I remember your article after Adelaide played in the Champions League Final...

At this point my shoulder chip bounced....hmmmn this "German" Aussie Sports Administrator knew exactly who she was and what she wrote even before, if my memory serves me right, he was in the country. I'm interested.

Edwin then fired a question:
Do you know how A-League crowds rank across the football leagues of the World?

Rebecca: Stumbled something like...."They are not as big as the English Premier League!"

Here was one of the small member of the anti-football brigade but apparently a PAID journalist for News Ltd getting her facts....so correct.

I was rolling.

So the A-League, salary cap $2.5mill, five years in the making, doesn't get as many people to games to a country where football is the national sport, has been for 100 years, has money to burn and about ten papers producing ten pages of football "news" every day. Nice one Rebecca.

For the record Australia is 17th for football crowds across the World. Pretty impressive after five years in my view...not Rebeccca.

And guess what Rebecca, we're behind Germany as well!
I can't do it justice, watch it here.
http://www.abc.net.au/sport/offsiders/content/2010/s2819059.htm

On behalf of the football community I'm sure we all salute Edwin Lugt. Professional, intelligent and driving one into the pathetic journo anti-football club.

We may not be the biggest code, who cares, but anyone who tries to keep us down, as Wilson and co do...deserve to be challenged.

Nice one Edwin, nice one son, nice one Edwin lets have another one.....who's next?

And Rebecca we know you'll use you media access to get back at Edwin or the game because that's the sort of "professional" journo you are....we're watching!

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Socceroos World Cup Qualifier Wednesday

The Socceroos take on Bahrain 2pm AEST Thursday morning Canberra time.

We're top of the group, Bahrain have four of their first picks out and it'll be a cool 24 degrees come match time.

So no excuses.


And it's vital we get a win, okay a point will do, but given we go to Tokyo next, where it's conceivable we could lose, although I doubt it...we need to take 4 points from these two away games to build on our fantastic start.

Brett Emerton, Vinny Grella, Craig Moore, Chris Coyne Scott Chipperfield and Scott McDonald are all unfit.

Carl Valeri is back, so is Harry Kewell and Marco Bresciano. With Tim Cahill in the mix this side should be strong enough in attack.

Luke Wikshire, Lucas Neill Jade North and David Carney across the backline

Expect Carl Valeri and Jason Culina in the midfield with Bresciano, Cahill and maybe Kewell upfront. Still leaves room for one more, I'm going with Brett Holman although Pim may go with Jacob Burns and push Culina wide right.

We'll see but I reckon Australia will get three points...here's hoping we take another huge step to South Africa and give Rebecca Wilson something positive to write about for once.

And well done the FFA CEO Ben Buckley for putting a statement out to counter the trash from Wilson. You can see it on the FFA website.

Some say he shouldn't get involved. I say we have market power now to start throwing our economic weight around. We don't have to take this drivel in Australia anymore or ever again no matter how successful or otherwise our teams, at club or national level.

We all like to criticise but Wilson's sort of Australian sports journalism of yore needs to be challenged at every corner from now on.

She'll be thinking twice before she writes anything so stupid about football as will some of her other cronies.

To think she's labelled a journalist....

Socceroos to win by 1. Wilson to be on the first media plane to South Africa:)

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Rebecca Wilson: Football in Crises:)

Rebecca Wilson thinks football in Australia is in crises.

Rebecca Wilson says,

"Either the game does surgery on itself here or soccer faces a future that is very bleak indeed.

Soccer is in crisis and Adelaide United's horrendous two losses proved once and for all that something has to be done to fix it.

See her full article, and yes she got paid to write it!!! Has she followed the game in the last 15 years? Anyway here's my two cents.

Dear Rebecca,

If Adelaide hadn't got to the ACL final by beating Chinese, Japanese and Koreans sides
If we had no juniors playing the game
If we weren't heading to South Africa
If our first real TV deal wasn't expected to grow
If more clubs weren't dying to get into the league
If the FFA weren't making a profit
If the Wilson's of this world weren't writing this crap
If Club Sponsors and Memberships weren't continuing to increase
If we weren't in Asia
If the A-League wasn't 5 times faster than the old NSL
If we didn't have a Women's League..on National TV

If Adelaide had beaten Gamba Osaka

We might be in crises..as it is we have a standard to aspire to, and a whole heap of reasons to be positive

Indeed Rebecca, if this is a crises, then bring it on baby:)

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