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Why Girls Stop Playing Football
Over the years there have been many studies and articles that dealt with why girls and young women give away their football. Often men write these articles and often the women that write them are not...
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The slightly eccentric KSI is a British YouTube "influencer" and musician. He has over 21 million followers, of which 2.4 million have tuned in to his review of "AFL" football where he rates it a 9.6...
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Code Wars
Peter Leahy, a leading Gaelic Football manager with the Mayo inter-county women’s team has drawn a line in the stand regarding players having to choose between their Gaelic Football careers in Ireland...
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Night Grand Final Looming
Collingwood president Eddie McGuire added further fuel to to fire concerning the AFL moving towards a night grand final. The argument has been emotive for a number of years now without any firm...
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Son Of Bomber Legend Signs As NFL Punter
Ahead of the 2019 AFL Draft, the son of club champion Dustin Fletcher was being touted as a chance to be drafted by Essendon. Having been closely watched by the club since his childhood, and...
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Visa Green Light: Irish Players Return
Callum Twomey and Mitch Cleary from the www.afl.com.au have reported on the return of the various Irish players acros the AFL who went home during the COVID-19 shutdown and have returned for Round 2...
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Multicultural Community Ambassadors Ready To Roll
As the 2020 AFL Premiership season prepares to explode to life again after the coronavirus postponements on field, the mechanisms of the game that go unseen off field for most of the time are also...
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A Fair Hit, A Hard Hit
Back in 1978, the crowd at Kardinia Park in Geelong held its collective breath as North Melbourne’s Keith Greig fearlessly ran at a high ball on the wing. Coming the other way was Geelong’s Ray Card....
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Black Lives Matter
Of course, All Lives Matter. However, gatherings across the world have been raising awareness to the fact that black lives are a part of that statement and deserve recognition to be included within...
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Covid 19 relaxing of restrictions.
A smidgen or a glimpse of some Good News for Footy? Trawling Footy websites to see how teams ,clubs, leagues and nations are coping with or surviving the shut down of sport and footy because of the...
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Alex Aurrichio - American Footy Pioneer Killed In Accident
The Australian Football world on both sides of the Pacific Ocean is in mourning at the news that former New York Magpie, Alex Aurrichio, has been killed in a car accident near Darwin. Aurrichio stands...
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They’re Back…
I doubt that there has ever been a Round 2 of a season that has carried such a weight of expectation, whether that be at the highest level of the AFL, or the suburban juniors anywhere around the...
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2020 AFL Round 2 International Broadcast Schedule
Round 2 of the 2020 AFL season is underway. See the graphic below to see when and where you can watch the footy on TV networks in your part of the world. ...
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Explaining Aussie Rules
Since the arrival of the most recent coronavirus, Australian Football (also known as Aussie Rules) has captured the imagination of sport fans worldwide, particularly in the United States of America....
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Membership To Drive Perpignan Tigers
For decades, the AFL’s 18 clubs have survived due to two key factors – television rights and supporter membership. The Perpignan Tigers in southern France have opted to take a leaf from the AFL’s book...
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AFL Netherlands' Waterland Eagles Aim High
The following is an extract from an AFL Europe story by James Brosnan at www.afleurope.org looking at the development and future of the Waterland Eagles – the newest AFL Netherlands team. It is a part...
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Positive COVID-19 Test For Irish Bomber
The AFL community is stunned by the announcement today that Essendon’s Irish speedster, Conor McKenna, has tested positive to the coronavirus. Details are still sketchy, with further medical...
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2020 AFL Round 4 International Broadcast Schedule
Round 4 of the 2020 AFL season is underway. See the graphic below to see when and where you can watch the footy on TV networks in your part of the world. An early start for US viewers on Fox Sports 1...
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Many Thanks
For those unaware, I have made the decision for a variety of family and personal reasons to step aside from my role writing for World Footy News. After eight years in the role, I needed to move on to...
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Redemption In Cairns
In was in late March 2018 when Cairns hosted its last AFL match. On the day, Tropical Cyclone Nora kindly dumped monsoonal rain over the Cairns region, turning Cazalys into a fairly decent outdoor...
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