Soccer Stoppage Time Podcast

With the tournament only days away, the show was dominated by the World Cup. We looked at the final Socceroos squad and gave our opinions (which at times got heated) on how our boys will go in the Cup. We also went through the remaining 4 groups of the World Cup and provided our views. We caught up with SBS Asian football expert in Scott McIntyre live from Brazil on his thoughts of the 4 Asian teams. We discussed the latest in A-League player movements in Stealth Scoops and caught up with Damien Davies from Aussies Abroad.

The show is in full World Cup mode and we discussed the Socceroo squad which was cut from 30 to 27 with warm up matches to go before the start of the tournament. We also went through the first 4 groups of the World Cup and provided our views and opinions. We discussed the past week's A-League player movements in Stealth Scoops and caught up with Damien Davies from Aussies Abroad.

The Socceroos were in action against South Africa in Sydney and we kept all our listeners up to date with the progress. We reviewed the AFC Womens Asian Cup final between the Matildas and Japan played on Sunday night. We discussed the past week's A-League player movements as well as reviewed in depth the UEFA Champions League between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid.

We discussed the past week's A-League player movements in Stealth Scoops. We spoke directly with Scott Ollerenshaw who is now in Queensland reviewing the Malaysian U23s national side playing in the Queensland NPL. We also caught up with Danielle Warby from The Womens Game after the Matildas successfully qualified for the next World Cup. As always had our regulars in Damien Davies from Aussies Abroad and Ray Gatt in Gatty’s corner. The FA Cup, La Liga season ending, the Europa League and a preview to the UEFA Champions League were discussed in the latter part of the show.

We discussed the massive announcement of Graham Arnold as the Sydney FC coach as well as other A-League player movements in Stealth Scoops. We spoke directly with Trent Sainsbury on his time in Holland as well as that bizarre sprinkler injury. We also had an off-the-cuff interview with James Hardy, the player manager of Bernie Ibini after his decision to join Sydney FC on loan and not the Central Coast Mariners. Ofcourse we will have our regulars in Damien Davies from Aussies Abroad and Ray Gatt in Gatty’s corner on all the latest machinations surrounding our game. The Barclay’s English Premier League came to an end and we analysed the last round as well as the season in general.

This week's show focused on the A-League Grand Final between Brisbane Roar and Western Sydney Wanderers where the Roar were winners in extra time. We caught up with Dimitri Petratos from Brisbane to get the reaction and update on celebrations from his team. We had a chat with James Gardiner from the Newcastle Herald surrounding the siging of new Jets coach Phil Stubbins. We caught up with Ray Gatt in Gatty's corner, Damien Davies from Aussies Abroad and our tipping guru Mel Carle. We also touched on the EPL race to the title and relegation battle as well as the UEFA Champions League semi finals.

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Week one of the A-League finals saw two very tight games. We reviewed them both and previewed this weekend's semi finals. We again caught up with Ray Gatt as well as Mel Carle our expert tipster. With a tinge of sadness we spoke with Damien Davies from Aussies Abroad and the main topic was the tragic passing of future star Dylan Tombides. Three rounds left in the EPL and while Liverpool hs the edge nothing is certain with many teams with still plenty to play for. There was even time for a heated discussion between Chubba and AndyO on the development of football in Australia versus overseas.

The A-League season proper drew to a close and we looked at the final round as well as the semi final pairings. We previewed the semi finals with Ray Gatt as well as Mel Carle our expert tipster. We caught up with our man in Singapore in Damien Davies from Aussies Abroad and looked at which of our Aussies overseas featured in matches over the weekend. We also reviewed the UEFA Champions League matches played the week before and the semi final match ups. The battle heats up in the EPL and we discussed the race to the title with just 4 weeks remaining.

We looked at the penultimate round and analysed in depth what could happen in the final round and hence the placings in the top 6. We also reviewed the Asian Champions League matches last week as well as the UEFA Champions League matches. The battle heats up in the EPL and we discussed the race to the title as well as the relegation battle. As usual we caught up with our regulars in Damien Davies from Aussies Abroad, Ray Gatt from the Australian in Gatty's Corner and our expert tipster Mel Carle.

We spoke live to former Liverpool, Rangers, Wolfsburg and Greek International Sotirios Kyrgiakos and his thoughts and impressions regarding his two match guest stint for Sydney Olympic and football in general in Australia. We also chatted to Sebastian Hassett from the Sydney Morning Herald and his thoughts on all things football. As usual we caught up with our regulars in Damien Davies from Aussies Abroad, Ray Gatt from the Australian in Gatty's Corner and our expert tipster Mel Carle.

We spoke live to minor premier winning coach Mike Mulvey from the Brisbane Roar to get his views and opinions on the season thus far as well as looking into the future for the semis and next year. We also caught up with Sydney Olympic Vice President Graham Athanaseris on how the huge day went at Belmore Sports Ground with the first of two guest appearances for the former Liverpool, Rangers and Greek international Sotirios Kyrgiakos. As usual we caught up with our regulars in Damien Davies from Aussies Abroad, Ray Gatt from the Australian in Gatty's Corner and our expert tipster Mel Carle.

We had coach of Vegalta Sendai Graham Arnold live from Japan regarding his new teams early forunes in the J-League. We also had a chat to Mike Cockerill who was down in Melbourne for the Victory's ACL clash. As usual we caught up with our regulars in Damien Davies from Aussies Abroad, Ray Gatt from the Australian in Gatty's Corner and our expert tipster Mel Carle.

We had Sydney CEO Tony Pignata on the phone for his views on the huge Sydney Derby which drew a bigger crowd than any of the NRL games over the weekend. We chatted to Damien Davies from Aussies Abroad and got his views on our Socceroos' friendly match against Ecuador. We had as usuals in Ray Gatt from the Australian in Gatty's Corner and our expert tipster Mel Carle as well as reviewed the weekend action in the EPL and the FA Cup.

We caught up live with Mike Cockerill from the Sydney Morning Herald and got his views on the A-League, the Socceroos selection as well as the huge news that Sotirios Kyrgiakos (former Raners and Liverpool defender and Euro 2004 winner) will play two guest games for Sydney Olympic starting on March 23rd at Belmore Sports Ground. Damien Davies reviewed our Aussies Abroad and gave his inout into players in the Socceroo squad as well as those who should/could break in to the team heading for Brazil. We also had as usuals in Ray Gatt from the Australian in Gatty's Corner and our expert tipster Mel Carle.