ash on November 28th, 2011

Such tragic news to hear that the Manager of the Welsh Football team, Gary Speed hung himself on the weekend. Just over a week ago, while attending the Lifeline Taboo lunch, I heard a number of prominent Australians, talk about their own battles with depression and attempted suicides.  Former Australian Rugby winger, Joe Roff, who [...]

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ash on December 7th, 2010

Newcastle United, the English team, not the Newcastle Jets from NSW, have sacked their manager, the honourable Chris Hughton, who led them back to the Premiership earlier this year.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/newcastle-united/8184265/Chris-Hughton-sacked-as-manager-of-Newcastle-United.html

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ash on December 3rd, 2010

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely! Everyone knows FIFA are a corrupt organisation,run like the Mafia, who answer to no one. But thats not strictly true is it? We don’t stand for a board or a government that under performs, so why should we put up with these bullies running the game?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/8176849/Englands-World-Cup-2018-bid-blame-lies-for-humiliation.html
If [...]

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ash on September 6th, 2010

The Old Boys couldn’t quite finish off the season with the double, as we went down 2-1 in yesterday’s semi-final against Canberra FC.

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ash on August 29th, 2010

Yes, the Tuggeranong Old Boys are officially League Champions.
http://football2.resultsvault.com/menu.aspx?entityid=31055&width=800&showname=1%22%3E

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ash on August 22nd, 2010

The Old Boys may be top of the over 43’s table, but to be honest we have hit a rough bit of form at the wrong time.
We have only managed one point out of the last nine, drawing with Brindabella Blues A 1-1 on August 1. This was followed by a 3-0 defeat to Canberra [...]

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ash on July 13th, 2010

Not a very good World Cup Final, but great to see the team that tried to play football win. Spain edged out the Dutch by a goal to nil, providing me with my first ever correct prediction of a football match.

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ash on July 11th, 2010

Paul the Octopus didn’t pick it, but for only the second time this season, the Old Boys were narrowly beaten 1-0 in this mornings match-up against Brindabella B at Kambah.

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ash on July 1st, 2010

I have been out of action for the past few weeks with a dodgy ankle, so have been relying on my trusty carrier pigeon for updates of the Old Boys matches.

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ash on July 1st, 2010

Well done the Germans, you deserved the 4-1 win, and the fact that England were appalling should not detract from your glory. OK so we know, the whole world except for FIFA know that Lampard’s shot bounced down over the line, and that would have brought the score back to 2-2. We can talk about [...]

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