As you know, EPL Talk focuses on the Premier League and not the lower leagues of England, but my day didn't start so well when Setanta-i had technical problems which prevented me and all other Setanta-i customers from viewing the Welsh derby featuring the club I've supported all my life, Swansea City, against Cardiff City.

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Bob Malcolm and Craig Moore will not play next week. Certainly in the case of Malcolm that is a very good thing. He may be the worse import the A-League has had. Robbie Slater described his work as the worst defending he had seen in the A-League. He caused the first 2 goals. The first bounced off him to the Mariners (2nd time in two weeks) and the 2nd he decided not to tackle. Click to continue reading...

Now we all know Pim Verbeek is worried about his Aussie boys returning home to the A-League, and probably no-one concerns him more than ever-present Socceroo Jason Culina.
Great player, who Robbie Slater praises before he even plays a pass, but are Culina's standards already slipping?
A few showpony touches with the score at 1-0 in the Fury game on the weekend suggests this whole A-League thing has finally attracted a professional player who finds the games too easy. Click to continue reading...

When you hear of Simon Hill and Robbie Slater jetting off to Thailand, Uzbekistan, South Africa and even Ireland (were they in Ireland?) the world is now really full of opportunities for those in the Australia media football game.
SMH Seb Hassett was recently in South Africa, and many other football journalists get to go hither and thither from time to time. Click to continue reading...

So this is the best season ever? Well how come Fox Sports presented a show designed from 1967.
Get six talking heads,
all men, in black suits and no tie and get them to talk and talk and talk. Missed it? Well just imagine the staring at the picture above for 90 minutes.
In a world where we can't do anything for more than 15 seconds Fox produced that! Click to continue reading...

Having spoken to a few people at FFA I can partly see their problem:

1. FFA has a lot to do with limited resources (compare them with AFL that has mega dollars but no where near as many kids playing across as many kms).
2. Some states run their leagues as a closed shop (Robbie Slater complained about this on Tuesday in Fox Sports FC - even implied young players were buying spots in rep teams in NSW before Andy Harper kicked him under the table).

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Where's Arnie? Our Olyroos supremo? Anyone heard him speak? He did an interview with Channel 7, like they'd know what to ask but nothing with our football media not even with his "very silent" media mates who have strong links to the man. Robbie Slater and the amazingly supportive SMH journo Mike Cockerill. Click to continue reading...

The Save Danny Vukovic campaign got a free kick the other night when Total Football's Robbie Slater threw a T-Shirt at FFA CEO Ben Buckley.
Hey Eamonn,
I contacted you a little earlier about the petition i'd started in relation to Danny Vukovic, well we got national exposure the other night on Total Football when Robbie Slater presented FFA CEO Ben Buckley with a SaveDanny T-Shirt we've had made up. Click to continue reading...