I was just scouring through Ebay and came across an unusual advertisement from a seller in Texas. ‘Football Club for sale – slightly damaged, used parts available’.

As any football fan, racing enthusiast or all-around sports lover will tell you, there is only one place to be in the spring time – Melbourne.

The writing is on the wall for Frank Lowy and his bidding bandidos.

Put on your safety suits and head to the bomb shelter folks because it’s the end of the football world as we know it.

In the ’50s and ’60s many newcomers to the country achieved cultural acceptance by doing what true Australians did: drink VB and barrack for Australia in all sporting contests.<

Ian Syson discusses the important contribution soccer players made to the Australian war effort in WWI and calls for a soccer match to celebrate ANZAC Day.