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by MikeTuckerman @ MikeTuckerman

Thu, 02 Oct 08 | 4 Comments


I read an interesting piece by Jesse Fink over at The Roar the other day about the A-League's current struggle to attract fans through the turnstiles. While I found...

by MikeTuckerman @ MikeTuckerman

Sun, 24 Aug 08 | 2 Comments


"Which one of you bitches wants to dance? Hey, you know when you're doing the usual sort of threesome thing you do of a weekend and, you know, the moonlight's bouncing of...

by MikeTuckerman @ MikeTuckerman

Fri, 15 Aug 08 | 0 Comments


The O-bon holidays have prompted an eerie atmosphere around the port city of Shimizu, with the streets deserted as people return to their places of birth to pay homage to the dead. ...

by MikeTuckerman @ MikeTuckerman

Sat, 26 Jul 08 | 5 Comments


It was a lazy headline writer's dream overnight as the J. League continued its haemoraging of big-name Brazilian strikers, with Hulk leaving a club that most people in Europe have...

by MikeTuckerman @ MikeTuckerman

Mon, 30 Jun 08 | 1 Comments


In 1992, Queen Elizabeth II memorably put what had been an horrendous year for the British royal family to rest in a speech in which she described the year as an annus horribilis....

by MikeTuckerman @ MikeTuckerman

Fri, 30 May 08 | 3 Comments


It's all gone pear-shaped for Avispa Fukuoka. Relegated from J1 at the end of 2006, the Kyushu side were expected to make a swift return to the top flight under the auspices of former...
A normal sunday afternoon in Tsukuba. I'm sitting at my desk, eating a chocolate chip bagel, sipping coffee, studying. Where is Tsukuba? It's a rather small city, located about 60km...

by MikeTuckerman @ MikeTuckerman

Thu, 08 May 08 | 0 Comments


JEF United have hired former Rangers star and Liverpool first team coach Alex Miller to take over as coach of the J. League's bottom club. Presumably...

by MikeTuckerman @ MikeTuckerman

Wed, 07 May 08 | 0 Comments


Tokyo Verdy. Kawasaki Frontale. Gamba Osaka. Not the biggest names in Japanese football, but they've all beaten Nagoya Grampus in the past fortnight. ...

by MikeTuckerman @ MikeTuckerman

Thu, 01 May 08 | 0 Comments


I read an interesting piece from that redoubtable authority on South American football Tim Vickery the other day, suggesting that derbies are an over-rated aspect of the modern game....