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Mismanagement From The Top: Is La Liga Falling Behind The Rest Of Europe

Mismanagement From The Top: Is La Liga Falling Behind The Rest Of Europe

• Chandler Milligan
While football fans have always recognised the English Premier League as the biggest league in world football, there was a period where even their finest sides couldn’t get close to La Liga’s giants. For almost two decades, from the early 2000s to the early 2020s, La Liga teams have been at the forefront of European football, dominating on the UEFA Champions League and Europa League stages despite fierce competition. In fact, it took Chelsea’s UEFA Conference League victory over Real Betis to end a 24-year record of Spanish teams triumphing in major finals. In the previous 27 major finals containing…
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The Greatest Power Couples in Sports

The Greatest Power Couples in Sports

• Ryan Cook
Are you looking to borrow a feeling after the recent Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce engagement news? Or do you simply need a reminder that money does buy happiness? There’s only one thing worse than a lonely Valentine’s Day snap from Team Snapchat: ridiculously good-looking sports couples with a disgusting amount of money. Comparing yourself to athletes and celebrities is great for your self-esteem, so we thought we’d join in on the action by previewing the Greatest Power Couples in Sport. (PS: the only real criteria here is for the couple to be, 1. Influential, and 2. A household name). Here’s a…
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The Day Fremantle Let Themselves Play

The Day Fremantle Let Themselves Play

• GuyWhoLikesSport
I’ve never seen Freaky Friday andbeyond the Jamie Lee Curtis promo video, I’m not going to watch the legacy sequel. It’s a real blind spot for me in my personal movie repertoire. Jamie Lee Curtis i was not familiar with your game…. pic.twitter.com/zfdvy6R4tq— kira 👾 (@kirawontmiss) August 17, 2025 I can worry no more, though. I watched it on Saturday afternoon at Marvel Stadium when the Dogs and Dockers played off in what was, in all likelihood, an Elimination Final. In the second and third quarters the Dockers and Bulldogs body-swapped. The stodgy Dockers let their players play while the…
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The Battle for the Soul of the Season

The Battle for the Soul of the Season

• GuyWhoLikesSport
This has not been a good year for gameplay in the AFL. Last year, I felt like we hit a happy medium between attack and defence in the game and it was probably the best year of footy I can ever remember. This year, it’s been different. Even though scoring numbers are basically the same, there’s been a profound difference between the haves and the have nots. The league-wide scoring numbers are mostly propped up by good teams demolishing bad teams. This year we have had 20 games decided by 0-5 points, about 10% of all games. Last year we…
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Big Money Signings in the Premier League: Are Unrealistic Expectations Destroying Great Players?

Big Money Signings in the Premier League: Are Unrealistic Expectations Destroying Great Players?

• Chandler Milligan
When it comes to spending big, nobody does it like the Premier League’s big six, and this year, they’ve shown us that they’re standing on business. As the summer transfer window curtains draw closer, Premier League teams are set to break all spending records as they splurge on some of the biggest names in Europe. In fact, the weight of their influence is so magnetic that the EPL has comfortably exceeded the spending figures of La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, and Ligue 1 combined. As it stands, English clubs have spent £1bn more in transfer fees than they have generated…
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Fogs' 2025 NFL Futures Forecast

Fogs' 2025 NFL Futures Forecast

• Liam Fogarty
There’s just something special about this time of year. There’s optimism everywhere I look. I’m optimistic about the new Madden that has just been released (might have even taken a week off to play it), I’m optimistic about the rookies I’ve drafted onto my dynasty team and I’m optimistic about a lot of teams this not named either the Philadelphia Eagles or the Kansas City Chiefs. This may be my absolute favourite article I write every year for Neds. We’re into year three of the futures forecast and I can’t wait to share with you all my thoughts on all…
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What We Learned From Round 23

What We Learned From Round 23

• GuyWhoLikesSport
This season has felt like the AFL circa 2015: the quality of play has been poor, but the ladder is going to be close enough in the end for the league to spin it as ‘healthy competition’ This was a big weekend for that close finish, though, with three games between top nine sides. Here’s one takeaway from each. Fremantle v Brisbane: Fraudmantle is real Heading into Friday night against the Lions at a packed Optus stadium, Fremantle had won five in a row and three of them by less than three goals. They were in some form, even if…
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2025 Premier League Kit Rankings

2025 Premier League Kit Rankings

• James Caughlin
Premier League season 2025-2026 is here and arguably the biggest offseason reveals every July and August are the plethora of new kits that each club releases. Long gone are the days when the jerseys would last for a couple of seasons (or more) with the clubs realising how much money they could make launching home, away and alternate kits every year. We have been heading down this road for a while, but it’s fair to say that the kit makers are really starting to struggle with the volume of jerseys they have to produce year on year. The Premier League’s…
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A Pre-Season to Forget: Is The Writing On The Wall For Newcastle United?

A Pre-Season to Forget: Is The Writing On The Wall For Newcastle United?

• Chandler Milligan
After an intense and promising Premier League campaign that saw Newcastle United clinch a place in the Champions League with a fifth-place finish, things have taken a toxic turn as the opening day of the new season approaches. While they missed out on Champions League football last season, Eddie Howe’s men more than made up for it, lifting their first major trophy since 1969 and their first domestic trophy in 70 years. Overall, it was a very successful year. Now, the wheels might be falling off. Like Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother, or the lead character in…
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Nat Fyfe: The Last Pure Bull

Nat Fyfe: The Last Pure Bull

• GuyWhoLikesSport
I’m 29 years old, born in 1996. My first real football memory, as a Richmond fan, is Richo kicking 10 against the Dogs in 2004. That’s closely followed by Richo getting pinged for the newly introduced hands in the back to rob us of a Dreamtime win in yet another shit season. Based on that, I reckon my football consciousness started in around 2005. In that 20 years, Nathan Fyfe is the single best contested player I have ever seen, and I am sad to know that I’ll never see him in the heart of the contest again. a legend…
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