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Phil Rothchild has/is up there with one of the least professional sports journalists in Australia -
lots of biased assessments of football over the years so nearly fell out of my chair at this
one.
Thing is many of these so-called journo's could have talked positively about football down the
years, him, FitzSimons, Birmingham, Bolt, Wilson and the rest but for some reason they choose not
to - small minds I guess - but here is our Phil doing his bit to spruik the game when clearly there
is no need to.
Got this email overnight from England - loved it, so blogged it!
Eamonn
Without doubt the greatest week in the short history of the A-League.
Not the greatest day: that was when the A-League kicked off but certainly the greatest marquee
since Dwight Yorke.
I am currently living in the UK (missing Australia like you wouldn't believe) and I was driving in
my car listening to the radio coverage of Arsenal/ Udinese when they cut to Blackburn Rovers who
had just scored in the Carling Cup "Brett Emerton.
I am missing the A-League more this off season than any other. I watched the European Cup final
because I wanted to see something like our A-League. And there was Barcelona, with their over
privileged squad copying Brisbane. And Manchester United copying Perth Glory, with less effect.
Soccer, basketball and union have paid a high price for helping Foxtel, via access to unique
content, to become a commercially viable alternative TV source.
ABC Offsiders discussed interesting views of the $1b AFL deal.
Foxtel's objective is to invest in AFL to increase its household coverage from 34% to over 50% and
to head towards 60%. There is a view that sports fans will not baulk at the $720 to $1,200 per year
for all AFL games each week. However, the current patchwork economy is likely to have had some
impact on paytv growth.
