http://northern-element.com/website Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:41:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en England Vs Scotland Lions Stadium, Richlands KO 3pm. Calling all ex-pats and football fans! The auld enemies will lock horns for the first time since 1996 at Qld Lions. The charity match is scheduled to be an annual event between the two teams, this being the first. The charity is in aid of the B105 ... http://northern-element.com/website/?p=75 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="125" caption="The Age Newspaper"][/caption] Brave new world Dan Silkstone December 3, 2008 THE Australian soccer revolution will be televised. In fact, it will be television-led. Half a decade after billionaire Frank Lowy and rugby union administrator John O'Neill joined forces to nudge Australian sport's sleeping giant out of what resembled a coma, ... http://northern-element.com/website/?p=57 Ron Manager   At the start of the A-League season I posted a blog about my experiences as a newly emigrated ‘Pom’ supporting the Queensland Roar. General commitments relating to settling into the country (getting a new job, buying a car, finding somewhere to live) has meant I haven’t made it a ... http://northern-element.com/website/?p=52 http://northern-element.com/website/?p=37 spinDr - 22/08/08 Michael Zullo and Sasa Ogenovski have had their words completely twisted out of recognition by a trigger happy journalist during the week. What has been reported as a deep mutual hatred has actually turned out to be nothing more than affectionate banter between two friends, who will always ... http://northern-element.com/website/?p=25 Ron Manager - 27/08/08 Imagine this scenario – it’s the final minute of added on time in the first home game of the season. The score is one-all, your team conceded in the first half to a disputed penalty but equalised early in the second. They’ve since dominated the play in ... http://northern-element.com/website/?p=23 Last Sunday the crowd numbers were down, the crowd atmosphere was suppressed and even the players seemed to be playing like it was a Championship decider in Adelaide. 12,761 soles got up from sunning themselves on their deckchairs and headed into Lang Park for our first game of the season. Last ... http://northern-element.com/website/?p=21 It seems to be a case of out with the old and in with the new in terms of everything to do with football in Australia. One big part of this change is the detachment from the British roots of the game in this country with a new connection being ... http://northern-element.com/website/?p=15 There is no player which provokes such lengthy and passionate debate amongst Queensland Roar fans then Heynaldo and it seems people fall firmly into one of two categories – love him or hate him. There is no more frustrating forward in the A-League then Heynaldo at times. He can miss glorious ... http://northern-element.com/website/?p=10 It's inviting to support a big team. You can get vicarious enjoyment from some team on the other side of the world. Their kits are a fuckload better then the Datsun-League’s homogeneous offerings, their fans are more vocal and colourful and their players are world clarsh (© Fozzie). Plus the ... http://northern-element.com/website/?p=8