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:)
9 comments:
Who else can smell her fear?
Rebecca is a real mole, she doesnt realise that NRL and AFl are dead sports, neither have anywhere to grow. NRL, AFL or Union do nothing for the women in their sport and she as a woman sits there and critices our game who has a televised national league for females?
How dare she slate Adelaide she has no idea there are a massive amount of teams in Asia with much more resources than Adelaide and second is a great achievement. Gamba are a great side and have been for some time.
Rebecca go back to your trailer park.
She's right, though, isn't she?
The A-League is a drab, boring league full of no-name Asians and South Americans and 35 year-old Europeans who can't get paid to play football in a decent league. It may be five times faster than th NSL, but what good is speed when there's little or no skill? And if I read one more whingeing Australian moaning about 'cashed-up' foreigners and their massive resources... get back to your precious FFA and get them to remove the salary cap. Get big business on board and start paying the wages to attract decent players. Then the World might take Australian football seriously.
But it won't happen, will it?
Nambucco Deliria
she's a bad apple, the type who wants to ruin the party.
Nambucco, that's my point, she's not right.
Australians know we ain' Man United or Real Madrid, but it's ours it's Australian.
Watching Rukavystya, Burns, Djite, Minniecon, Ryall, Jedinak, Simon. Elrich, Cole develop over the last few years, I've enjoyed it.
Seeing Cornthwaite, Costanzo, Kemp and co play in Asia..great stuff..
seeing Covic, MacAllister, Jamieson. Rizzo, Corica, Thompson, Allsopp, and Reid return home making various impacts on our game, the A-League...
it's been great..the journey continues....
so now Rebecca is not right, in fact she's wrong
As for quality did you see how many Asian sides Adelaide beat
and last time I looked, Hull v Stoke or West Ham or Blackburn it maybe be Premier League but is it really that much better in terms of entertainment...
I suggest you watch Sunderland or Newcastle every home and way game and see how much more enjoyable those games are....
better entertainment than the A-League...every week?
Unless they are playing Arsenal or United..I doubt it.
Salary Cap is good for the game, we don't have the resources..and lets face it when we do spend money on bigger players Aloisi, Romario, Juninho. Popovic, Lazaridis have we really got value?
Eamonn -
Rebecca's syndicated Daily Telegraph piece today is no surprise.
You may remember I commented through this blog on Gary Linnell's anti-football attack piece a couple of months back published in the Tele - which Simon Hill later responded to in a 442 issue.
Well, Garry was yesterday appointed editor of the Daily Telegraph (formerly he was news director at Channel Nine in Sydney and the Bulletin editor).
Strange thing is I thought an increase in the Tele's anti-football articles (if that is possible) would take at least a week or two after his appointment - clearly not it seems!
Good response Eamonn,
I always like to compare Football with music.
When it comes to music our local bands may not have the same expensive recordings or the big names or the glitz and glamour of international bands. But they are our bands and we can see them play every week.
The only thing worse than a Euro snob is a part-time euro snob.
Stama
What she might have written:
MELBOURNE Storm was comprehensively humiliated 40-0 by silvertails Manly recently in the rugby league grand final.
In what only can be described as an embarrassing performance, the carefully constructed masquerade around the NRL was fractured.
Throw in the farcial "World Cup" and the truth is rugby league is not up to scratch and only those dozen or so players who represent Australia are good enough to compete on the international stage.
Scratch the surface of the sport at every level and you come up with a code that is in grave danger of going the same way as basketball did a decade ago.
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Stama interesting analogy I'll use that one:)
and Mr Big interesting how articulate some of my readers are...get back to work:)
Don't suppose Rebecca will be on the Peter FizSimons first World Cup South African plane will she??
great stuff eamonn. im an aussie who lives over in germany, so i didnt get to here much bout this story. but i have read a little bit about it.
and it makes me cringe. i think Rebecca Wilson is someone who has always struggled with football (soccer), but then again she is someone who has always struggled as a journalist to have a valid or relevant opinion.
its frustrating hearing people like this, saying things like this. but the comments she makes are poorly educated and really cant be taken seriously. its just a shame, she gets the medium of a newspaper to speak her mind.
nevertheless, as is sport, their is always next week and the Socceroos can do us proud on Wednesday by beating Bahrain, proving their is clearly no crisis at all!
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