If I started to cry, I wouldn’t stop’ - a quote taken from former Australian football captain, Lucas Neill, is a snapshot in time – of the glorious, problematic, and cursed path of football in Australia (yes all those things), starting with Mark Bosnich in Sydney in 1996 and ending with Harry Kewell in Istanbul in 2009 – and many things in between. Journalist and author Matthew Hall saw the lot.
At a time when football in Australia wasn’t quite so ‘cool’ or popular, Matthew managed to actually get paid to report on the game, beyond the hamstrings and groins, and looking – as he says – back stage.
For anyone who remembers these times, it’s a terrific trip down memory lane. For those who don’t, or who were not even alive at the time, read and learn!
Matthew Hall is the author of two previous books, The Away Game and Robbie Slater: The Hard Way. He produced and wrote the award-winning film adaptation of The Away Game.
He covered four FIFA World Cups while writing about football for The Guardian, the Observer, the New York Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Sun-Herald, The Australian, the Daily Telegraph, the South China Morning Post, Rolling Stone, When Saturday Comes, Four Four Two, Inside Sport, Playboy, ESPN, The World Game, and the Saturday Paper, among others.
He has campaigned against human rights violations in sport and human trafficking through sports.
Born in Perth, Western Australia, he lives in New York City where he coaches girls’ soccer teams including his daughter’s Under-10 team.
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Introduction
If I started to cry, I wouldn’t stop
Mark Bosnich leaves a message and wants to talk
Harry Kewell has a crocodile in his backyard
Croatia is a country
Into the weeds
Frank Farina: ‘That is not a bullshit answer’
Nicky Salapu can count to 57
A cauldron of hell with a bottle of wine
In Oceania, no one can hear you scream
Like their players, Australian agents taste the big time
The Invisible Man
In Japan, Ned Zelic misses Australia, but regrets nothing
Terry Antonis is 10 years old but everything will come true
We have one car between us
Shiny and new: Frank Lowy dreams of Sydney, New Zealand and Asia
That time Australian football was going to buy a Premier League club
Tim Cahill, ’the situation’, and his arrival in the Premier League
Johnny Warren, the beat of bossa nova, and saudade
Frank Farin fights fires
Harry Kewell prays he doesn’t break down
Guus Hiddink with wind in his hair
Wide awake in Marrakech
Montevideo diary: ‘Goodbye, good luck, and well played.’
Fallen and forlorn, Harry Kewell rises again
Andrew Jennings was right about everything
No one can eat until Guus says so
Don Parkes and the birthday present dream
Herr Maisenbacher’s tears are all of us
The eternal search for the Next Big Thing
At home against the mafia, match-fixing, and riots
Graham Arnold and the drama queens
A Galaxy with one star and the teammates just want dinner
Some of them … they are going to be killed
Fabio Capello is ‘added to the process’
Mark Shield is a referee – and a human being
Harry Kewell will arrive in precisely 13 minutes
A dinner with Frank Lowy and Jack Warner
I just want to be the person that I really was
Clueless and the international man of mystery
A photo from Jamaica raises quiet questions
The best motorcycle mechanic in Dili
The sun sets into the Meadowlands
Beware of friends with private jets
The football would head in one direction and the soldiers take another to war
Therapy
Over de auteur
Matthew Hall is the author of The Away Game and Robbie Slater: The Hard Way. He produced and wrote the award-winning film adaptation of The Away Game.
He covered four FIFA World Cups while writing about football for The Guardian, the Observer, the New York Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Sun-Herald, The Australian, the Daily Telegraph, the South China Morning Post, Rolling Stone, When Saturday Comes, Four Four Two, Inside Sport, Playboy, ESPN, The World Game, and the Saturday Paper, among others.
He has campaigned against human rights violations in sport and human trafficking through sports.
Born in Perth, Western Australia, he lives in New York City where he coaches girls’ soccer teams including his daughter’s Under-10 team.
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