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Now football doesn't always get the coverage it deserves, certainly on FTA national channels it
hardly gets the coverage crowds and the national team of the World Game deserves.
Even with so many people interested in the last World Cup campaign and numbers involved in the
game.
So I guess there must be a number of media, a few at the elite of the AFL, Rugby League and Rugby
Union who woke up this morning and said,
"Oh no they're off to the World Cup again.
I like my football, with a passionate crowd, something on the line, plenty of skill and the stadium
sold out.
They said we didn't care about Asia, and it's football. Who's they? Well all those Aussie
enlightened sports journo's; you know who they are...the ones that give football a fair go.
Tonight in Adelaide, new football, takes another step. Appropriately, to me, it is a team from the
old NSL playing in a stadium used in the old NSL, that will take us to a place this game, in this
country, has never ever been.
Semi-Final time. Of the Asian Champions League.
Whatever your sporting passion, when there is a prize on the line, the crowd swells, and the
intensity lifts.
Canberra Raiders CEO Don Furner said,
'It could be going to local sporting teams, it could be going to the new A-League
team.''
The ACT Government are considering paying $3 million dollars per year to sponsor the Sydney Swans.
Now the Canberra A-League team don't need more handouts but this is clearly ridiculous.
Warwick Hadfield on Nearpost Radio on Tuesday.
Despite what you read here, I'm very highbrow and enjoy listening every morning to Radio National's
Breakfast programme with Fran Kelly. Love ya Fran, you are the best.
And at 7.35am every morning Australia's best all-round sports journo Warwick Hadfield fills us in,
as only he can, on the days news in sport.
