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ndidates phil austin of the jersey football association says he prefers to not to get too optimistic regarding his island s chances jersey looked at joining uefa or fifa a number of years ago but it seems that those sort of opportunities are no longer available to us as you know gibraltar have recently gone down that route but as we understand it that door is now closed however we will continue to explore opportunities however he isn t sure of whether guernsey could join uefa saying that due to the fact that one of their clubs play in the english football pyramid they might be considered ineligible a view shared by many on guernsey guernsey play a pivotal role in preserving football on the smaller channel islands like alderney sark and herm andy lawrence is captain of the alderney side that competes in guernsey s reserve league namely the bavarian nomads he also captains the island s international side and cites guernsey as the reason that alderney get so much footballing exposure although he acknowledges that alderney are put in the shade by jersey and guernsey s footballing prowess lawrence believes that one day alderney could surprise their larger counterparts and win the murratti chris drillot chairman and player for sark fc based on nearby island sark also believes that guernsey s presence helps football on sark telling tomos we don t have a season as such we just play friendly matches against social teams from guernsey a lthough guernsey a british crown dependency in the middle of the channel are far from being global footballing icons the benefits brought with joining fifa or uefa could be astronomical but for now it seems they ll just have to wait and hope photo 1 courtesy of mark connell via flickr this article originally appeared on just football s website and was written by tomos knox you can see it here leave a comment the emergence of australian football august 20 2014 tomos knox australian football history could well be re written soon melbourne heart have changed their name to melbourne city as insignificant a factor to the changes that will be wrought with the beginning of the season it is a momentous happening in the club s short history and the a league s writes tomos knox the national soccer league had crumpled and knowledgeable of the fact that football in australia could also collapse with it the football federation australia decided that it would be necessary to form a new league the new competition was to be called the a league due to the ffa s one city one club rule melbourne victory were given the licence to play as the representative side for melbourne this left the proposed city second side that had yet to be blessed with a name stuck between a rock and a hard place they were excluded from the highest tier of australian football the only australian league deemed worthy of mention to the rest of the world negotiations continued between various associations and sponsors and melbourne victory until in 2009 a deal was agreed heart would play their inaugural season in the 2010 11 campaign there were to be no fairytales however in their first season melbourne heart finished eighth out of 11 in the league victory finished fifth but in the first ever melbourne derby it was heart who gained the upper hand leaving the pitch as winners after defeating victory 2 1 melbourne heart continued progressing in leaps and bounds finishing sixth in 2011 12 and establishing themselves as an a league side manchester city s moneymen must have seen something attractive because in 2013 a group going by the name of city football group acquired the club paying 12 million the group expressed hope that the partnership between what was now called melbourne city its name having been changed by the group manchester city and another city owned team newly formed new york city fc the subsequent season melbourne city failed to perform finishing 10 th with david williams scoring 11 goals trumping the achievements of high profile signings harry kewell and orlando engelaar although both were plagued by injury throughout kewell only netted twice in 15 appearances while engelaar fared better notching an impressive 5 goals in 14 matches both would have featured more proficiently during the course of the season had injuries not hampered their progress but one cannot dismiss the sheer brilliance of williams who carried city throughout their tough campaign more big names have been brought in for the upcoming 2014 15 season damien duff previously of chelsea and fulham on a permanent deal and david villa the former spain and atletico madrid striker joining on loan from new york city fc the future looks bright and a league enthusiasts will surely look on closely the a league is still very much in its infancy and despite not having acquired the fame of its american counterpart major league soccer players such as duff villa and robert koren previously of west bromwich albion are very much forcing the issue the ball has finally started rolling for australia although the will be considering themselves serious contenders for the title melbourne city will have a number of sides snapping at their heels brisbane roar won the league last season and will be determined to keep a firm grip on the trophy two time macedonian international mensur kurtishi has been signed on a 1 year contract from shkëndija the striker having scored a remarkable 10 goals in just 14 appearances last season costa rican international jean carlos solórzano is another striker joining having been captured from ajajuelense a proflific goalscorer he is sure to add a real bout of firepower to an aldready strong strikeforce if they manage to keep important players such as brazilian striker henrique and solid centre back matt smith they should enjoy a successful campaign whether they can prove that money doesn t guarantee trophies by beating cash happy melbourne city remains to be seen the socceroos impressive performance in the world cup signalls a time of change for football in australia although they re not germany or france their enthusiasm for the beautiful game really is enlightening they turned out in droves to watch their beloved national side toil away at the world cup and came away battered and bruised but proud nevertheless they may not have a ronaldo or messi in their team but their squad comprises of good adept players football has and will fight valiantly to establish its place as australia s leading sport while aussie rules and rugby continue to excite to the general population down under one cannot dismiss the true influence of football on the country the adversary of a league has yet to be fully explored by the world but once people remove their eyes from the neon signs directing them to the premier league and its cash cow european counterparts they will come across a league so rich in its infancy that it could be deemed a more successful version of the mls if you ever watch the a league no you won t see gareth bale no nor neymar however if you re interested there s an macedonian international playing for brisbane roar this article originally appeared on world football weekly s website and was written by tomos knox you can see it here leave a comment book review outcasts by steve menary august 11 2014 tomos knox outcasts the lands that fifa forgot is an excellent book one like no other little did anybody know of the viva world cup or the far flung footballing nations of the falkland islands or lapland while the majority of football s community eagerly devoured world cup and champions league sludge steve menary set about to publicise the difficulties facing a national team who with little or no funding struggle to exist it s a heart warming story and casts fifa in a very different light the global football governing body s refusal to admit that greenland is as much of a country as the british virgin islands is remarkable and the fact that non fifa members such as south lower saxony sealand and southern cameroon went on to form their own football governing body is even more so most football fans would never show an interest in football of this kind but the sheer excellence of the book has won it awards granted the world cup final is exciting in britain but in the sapmi or anywhere else not recognised by fifa the viva world cup is twice as exciting you can read steve menary s blog here leave a comment oceania struggling to defy the odds august 5 2014 tomos knox oceania is a continent scattered with far flung atolls miniscule islands and larger established countries such as australia and new zealand however for every australia in oceania there are another hundred islands lacking in size and economic prosperity this makes sport very difficult and football especially struggles to survive the oceanian football confederation was formed in 1966 with australia new zealand and fiji amongst the founding members the decision was made by the football associations of australia and new zealand after their applications to join the asian football confederation was turned down with no regular footballing outlet australia and new zealand sought the help of sir stanley rous then president of fifa in 1966 the ofc were formally accepted as part of fifa in the years that ensued football took a turn for the best in oceania the oceania cup s innaugural edition kicked off in new zealand in the year of 1973 the final was played in auckland between new zealand and tahiti the score finished 2 0 to the hosts but due to the absence of the australian side and the inclusion of many then non fifa teams such as vanuatu the tournament received precious little attention the next oceania cup was hosted by new caledonia another side not affiliated with fifa at the time in 1980 the inclusion of australia increased the quality of the tournament and the socceroos romped to victory beating tahiti 4 2 in the final however the tournament was discontinued soon after new zealand despite some disappointing performances in the 1980 oceania cup secured qualification for the 1982 world cup however the all whites were somewhat out of their depth and lost 4 0 to brazil 3 0 to the soviet union and 5 2 to scotland new zealand exited the tournament without having gained a single point it wasn t until 1996 that the ofc created another continental tournament namely the oceania nations cup the tournament also served as a qualifier for the confederations cup the tournament seemingly unloved by anybody bar of course sepp blatter the oceania nations cup s first edition included only four teams and had no host australia played new zealand in the first semi final while tahiti came up against the solomon islands both australia and tahiti beat their opponents and faced each other in a final comprising of two seperate matches the first in camberra australia and the second in papeete tahiti australia won both legs with ease beating tahiti 6 0 and then 5 0 australia despite winning a vast array of trophies while in the ofc parted company with the oceanians joining the asian football confederation in search of a higher standard of football in 2006 lacking players worthy of recognition oceanian football was struggling in 2008 the first regional ofc competition without australia was played the ofc nations cup the tournament was played in a round robin form without a host nation new zealand emerged as champions overcoming new caledonia and vanuatu but beating fiji only once losing the second match 2 0 with goals from roy krishna securing victory for the fijians since this tournament oceanian football has progressed immensely with new zealand qualifying for the 2010 world cup and tahiti reaching the confederations cup the departure of australia from the ofc was hailed by many as the point at which oceanian football would go into decline however the miniscule islands cast in shadow by their larger counterparts are slowly beginning to realise their ambitions tahiti would never had experienced the dazzling hights of the confederations cup in brazil had australia not departed new zealand would never have had the opportunity to play in the 2010 world cup had australia been there to take their place despite the fact that oceania s largest nation decided to join the afc the ofc should not be disheartened the sheer potential of the national teams has yet to have been fully explored the promise of the oceanian champions league is undergoing a renaissance it is apparent that football in oceania will not be akin to the english premier league to say anything of the sort would be rash and unrealistic however the aforementioned departure of australia creates a flexibility within the ofc that exists nowhere else with this flexiblility the oceanian football confederation will be hoping that no longer will oceanian micro nations national football teams be concealed hastily by blatter s fifa no longer will their footballing pedigree be at mercy for the football community to ridicule the departure of australia signalled a change in the fortunes of oceanian football for the better this article originally appeared on the football pink s website and was written by tomos knox you can see it here leave a comment everton a preview the football spectrum august 4 2014 tomos knox nobody knew what to expect of everton last season they had lost their manager namely david moyes to manchester united then they had replaced him with ex coach of relegated wigan athletic roberto martinez however the toffees played excellently over the course of the 2013 14 season playing with a new attacking style that was also seen at wigan their stylish passing and attacking expertise helped them lose only one of their first 17 matches against manchester city who would inevitably win the league everton only narrowly missed out on the 4 place slot a slot that could ve seen them playing champions league football next season but unfortunately for them the toffee men unable to prise it from arsenal s stubborn grasp this season everton will surely be looking to finish higher the signing of loanee gareth barry on a permanent deal will bolster a capable midfield with his tough tackling and never say die attitude instrumental to last season s successes however ross barkley will be everton s most important player the 20 year old s playing style appearing reminiscent of wayne rooney who played for the toffees before joining manchester united while barkley s age can be questioned his experience cannot last season he played 34 times scoring 6 goals his impressive form led to inclusion in england s world cup squad and although the three lions crashed out far earlier than expected he still managed to gain a world cup debut coming on as a substitute against italy with romelu lukaku back at chelsea and reportedly having no interest in returning on loan to everton the toffee men will be looking to arouna kone and steven naismith to provide the firepower given that they scored 5 goals 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