Australia has now advanced to the final stage of the 2015 Asian Cup and now have a major chance to add a really nice big piece of silverware to their slightly baron trophy cabinet.
The January Transfer Window. The lone oasis in the gruelling trek across the desert that is the Premier League season. A last chance to restock and re-energise before putting the head down and marching towards the finish line, for better or for worse, with a fixed and finalised squad of players.
It’s really starting to look, as predicted in these pages many times, that Winston sticks with West Ham for the rest of the season.
Aside from many other things, Sylvester Stallone is also a noted Everton fan. So when he needed a crowd bit for his new film he popped on over the Atlantic to Goodison Park.
This was undoubtedly going to be Australia's toughest game yet.
It seems like Arsenal vs Manchester City is becoming the best rivalry of the modern Premier League.
Interesting stuff from West Ham and manager Sam Allardyce, who left Winston Reid on the bench for the game against Hull City this week. Preparing for an imminent departure…? Nah. He was just injured.
FIFA’s annual pat-on-their-own-backs award show was held this week with all of the pretentiously inward celebration that you’d expect of the dictators of the world game.
I have never been in a country whilst a relatively big time football cup has been played and shit it is exciting. I managed to make it out to the Australia v Oman game and boy was it entertaining.
You’ve gotta hand it to Southampton, man. People keep writing them off, asking how long can they keep it up, and they just keep on keeping it up.
Some curious quotes from Sam Allardyce this week over the future of Winston Reid.
Adebayo Akinfenwa isn’t quite a household name, but he’s a lot more famous than any 32 year old League Two battler should be.
The transfer window is open, and like Gandalf said to the Fellowship: “They are coming!"
It's been an interesting season so far for the Wellington Phoenix with a wealth of optimism surrounding the crew from Wellington, which has been well and truly justified.
I reckon this is the result that will put the Wellington Phoenix in a great position to do something special in the A-League this season.
Against those who like a Wander, the Nix looked sublime in stages and then fell back in to the pool - imagine a little chubby kid trying to jump out of a pool, sometimes he does if seamlessly and efficiently while sometimes he just keeps on falling back in.
The festive season has a special place in the football community.
Week 11 has all finished and it brought some upsets I'll tell ya. It was nice to see the week finish with no red cards, and it appears the Captain's Curse (if you can call idiotic moments a curse) has been lifted for the mean time anyway.
Brendan Rodgers called a 2-2 draw with against an injury-depleted Arsenal side both “outstanding” and “brilliant”. He even said it was better than the 5-1 win over them last season! Sorry, but bollocks. You got one point, you actually lost ground on the top 4.
It was a battle between All Whites in the Premier League this weekend as Winston Reid’s West Ham hosted Chris Wood’s Leicester City… except that Chris Wood didn’t play.