Straight Yellow - Football Podcast

For the first time ever, an Indonesian club has won on Australian soil. A Singapore side coached by ex-Mariners boss Mark Jackson put five past Adelaide. Australian football has hit a new low in Asia.
Peacock and Slater work out how it got this bad. Across Asia, governments are pouring money into the game while Australian football can’t speak to Canberra with one voice. Arnie’s after-hours meeting with a senior politician says it all: “We don’t know who you are.” Robbie is ready to march on Parliament House himself.
Plus: Tony Popovic’s contract runs out in January, so does he take a four-year deal or walk? Is Mark Milligan really in the frame, or is it Kevin Muscat’s time? Also on the show: John Aloisi’s Devon Loch moment, Man City’s slide, West Ham in the Championship and the day the Chicken Run humbled Robbie, plus Man United’s lap of honour in the relegation zone. And a scoop on another Aussie coach heading to Indonesia.
Can Australian football ever get its act together? Tell us in the comments 👇

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
00:25 - A-League weekend: Brisbane unbeaten
01:08 - A packed Coopers Stadium: Adelaide v Victory
03:03 - Australian clubs flop in the Asian Champions League
05:14 - Beaten by Singapore & Indonesia
07:05 - Why football needs one voice to government
08:32 - Arnie’s unofficial meeting in Canberra
11:28 - Robbie’s march on Canberra
12:32 - Newcastle Jets & Mark Milligan
13:58 - Popovic’s future & Milligan in the frame
18:29 - John Aloisi’s Devon Loch title collapse
22:49 - Who should replace Popovic? The case for Kevin Muscat
23:45 - Man City’s three straight losses
25:45 - West Ham, Blackburn & Robbie’s old clubs
28:43 - The day the Chicken Run humbled Robbie
32:05 - Arsenal five points clear
32:33 - Southampton & the Premier League ladder
33:04 - Man United’s comeback & a lap of honour
35:13 - Does Carrick survive?
36:02 - Palace in trouble & Thomas Frank linked
37:07 - Ten games in: the table doesn’t lie
39:02 - Scoop: Asia recruiting heritage players
40:24 - Rumour: Alen Stajcic to Indonesia
41:15 - Pub show & outro
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The Socceroos and Matildas are suing Football Australia. Families can’t afford to put their kids on the field. And A-League clubs are losing to teams from Singapore and Indonesia in Asia.

Adam’s away, so Robbie Slater is joined by Eddy Bosnar: Dinamo Zagreb, Sturm Graz, Shimizu S-Pulse, Korea, China and the Wanderers. Neither of them holds back. Robbie goes after the CBA that hands the national teams 50% of revenue while the game is broke. Eddy says the real problem is softer: load management, cramping players and a system that makes everything too easy. He would know. In Korea, a Saturday loss meant sleeping at the training camp until the next game.

Plus the “tracksuit hunters” running youth football, why Australia has never taken to the Asian Champions League, a politician’s blunt verdict on who runs the game, getting Cahill and the legends back, A-League Women, and Robbie’s multi for the weekend.

Are our players too soft? Tell us in the comments 👇

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro: Eddy Bosnar joins
01:15 - Dinamo Zagreb & Robbie’s old club
01:58 - The most negative start to a season
02:35 - Socceroos & Matildas sue Football Australia
05:42 - How the national team sold Robbie & Eddy to Europe
07:14 - Youth coaching & the “tracksuit hunters”
08:39 - The CBA & the 50% revenue deal
09:49 - Families who can’t afford to play
11:57 - Steve O’Connor & the Institute of Sport
12:43 - Safety fears over the game in Jordan
13:04 - A divided game & the 15-year plan
13:54 - Old fans v the A-League
14:35 - Empty stadiums: is it the quality?
15:53 - Auckland v Wellington sells out
16:33 - Sydney & Victory struggling for players
17:51 - Mark Milligan & the older players
19:09 - Why we’ve never taken to the Asian Champions League
21:42 - When Korea feared the Aussies
22:30 - Divorcing the Lowys & the “best broadcast deal in history”
23:08 - Beaten by Singapore & Indonesia
23:40 - Load management & cramping players
25:28 - Training camps in Korea & “our players are too soft”
27:36 - Why Asian governments back football
28:39 - The politician who asked who’s running the game
29:55 - Get the legends back
32:05 - NPL & A-League fixture clashes
33:22 - Two million players, so why don’t they watch?
36:25 - The Matildas & A-League Women need help
38:19 - Weekend preview: A-League
39:28 - EPL preview & Eddy’s Christmas tournament story
41:01 - Robbie’s multi
41:20 - A Straight Yellow pub show?
41:52 - Outro
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Hand in your drums. Behave yourselves, and you might get them back.

That’s what the RBB were told before Saturday night’s Halloween clash between Macarthur and the Wanderers. Police treated the game like a Sydney Derby, so the Wanderers fans answered with 20 minutes of silence. Peacock and Slater ask why football is still the only sport in Australia that gets policed as a collective. A punch-up at the AFL is a few individuals, but a flare at the A-League means the whole crowd is the problem. Robbie remembers the day he watched police provoke trouble at a Wanderers game, and they’ve got a fix the APL could act on now.

Then it’s the stories you only get on Straight Yellow. Jamie Carragher’s run-in with Aston Villa. The night John Kosmina grabbed Robbie by the neck in the tunnel. Clive Palmer giving the half-time team talk at Gold Coast United and threatening to sue Fox over a pie. Plus Richard Peil’s airport gym genius, Man United in freefall, and Robbie’s Melbourne Cup tip.

Are A-League fans being treated unfairly? Tell us in the comments 👇

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
00:28 - Liverpool v Arsenal & VAR
01:33 - The fans: why football gets policed differently
03:44 - The early Wanderers days, the RBB & Buzz Rothfield
04:35 - Macarthur v Wanderers: RBB told to hand in their drums
05:48 - The day Robbie watched police provoke the RBB
08:11 - 20 minutes of silence & why noise is treated as a threat
09:31 - Empty stadiums & the fans who stopped going
10:10 - No football on the screens at the local club
11:05 - The fix: an ex-police commander working for the APL
13:36 - Jamie Carragher v Aston Villa
16:27 - The night John Kosmina grabbed Robbie by the neck
18:21 - Clive Palmer & the Gold Coast United circus
21:16 - The pie that nearly got Fox Sports sued
22:10 - When the A-League was must-watch
23:41 - Promotion, expansion & the 30-game target
25:00 - What basketball got right
25:28 - Richard Peil’s offer & the airport gym
28:05 - Man United in freefall
31:20 - Robbie’s Melbourne Cup tip
32:27 - Mailbag & outro
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Australian football is broke, divided and invisible, and Robbie Slater has had enough.
No Peacock this week. It’s just Robbie, on his own, with a plan. He says the FA, APL, PFA and the states all need to own their mistakes, get around one table and commit to a Japan-style 15-year plan. And he knows who should be leading it: Tim Cahill.
Then there’s the idea that hit him watching the A-League and the Australian Championship on the same weekend. Australia already has a second division sitting right in front of it. Robbie’s road to promotion and relegation goes through promotion-only years first, then an 18-team league with room for Tasmania, Canberra and clubs like South Melbourne. Along the way he takes on A-League licence fees, PFA wages and the Paramount paywall that’s kept football out of pubs and clubs.
Plus a SCOOP: Richard Peil, the Anytime Fitness boss who turned the Mariners from wooden spooners into champions, has told Robbie he’ll come back and run the game for two years. For free.
Agree? Disagree? Tell us in the comments 👇

TIMECODES:
00:00 - Intro
00:28 - The promotion & relegation debate
00:54 - Why we need a Japan-style 15-year plan
01:19 - “We all stuffed up” – time to unify
02:49 - Get Tim Cahill back
04:59 - Bring the legends to the table
06:25 - What hit Robbie last weekend
07:12 - How first & second division would work
08:15 - What about A-League licence fees?
09:45 - Promotion only: the road to 18 teams
11:36 - PFA needs to face reality
13:03 - Broadcast: football is invisible behind a paywall
15:07 - SCOOP: Richard Peil’s offer to run the game for free
19:06 - Your thoughts & one word… Oceania
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Manchester United are in "complete collapse", and the fans are cheering the one man who's about to lose his job.

This week on Straight Yellow, Adam Peacock and Robbie Slater pick through the wreckage at Old Trafford. Gary Neville's raw reaction, Carrick's goodbye wave, Martinez and Bruno having a go, and the big question: who do you bring in now? Conte? Eddie Howe? Plus the racehorse feud that handed the club to the Glazers, and how Bournemouth beat United and AC Milan inside four days.

Then Robbie tells the greatest Graham Arnold conspiracy theory of all time. Italian World Cup star Nicola Berti turns up at Northern Spirit, and Arnie becomes convinced it isn't actually him, it's his twin brother. Mikel Arteta's 36-clip dossier proves managers haven't changed.

Is the Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia going ahead, and where does that leave Tony Popovic and the Socceroos? The boys also answer your comments on a Tasmanian A-League team, Vidmar's call for 16 clubs, why the APL stays silent, and whether Robbie really drops the F-bomb on this show.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Start
00:44 - Football in all its forms
01:13 - Man United: "catastrophic"
02:01 - Gary Neville's reaction & Carrick's farewell wave
04:13 - Martinez & Bruno have a go
04:35 - Why the fans' favourite cops it
05:39 - Who's next? Conte or Eddie Howe?
07:25 - Football comes second at United
08:24 - The racehorse that brought in the Glazers
09:23 - Can United fix itself under these owners?
10:23 - Robbie on playing at Old Trafford
11:19 - A Liverpool fan feeling sorry for United?
14:01 - Bournemouth beat United and AC Milan in four days
15:00 - The Villa fans' Cheetos stunt
16:26 - The Herrington brothers
17:40 - Why FA said no to Herrington in a Roar shirt
19:53 - Arteta's 36-clip dossier
21:36 - The most paranoid manager: Graham Arnold
23:41 - Nicola Berti arrives at Northern Spirit
26:00 - "It's not him": Arnie's twin brother theory
28:39 - Berti the tourist in Auckland
30:04 - Is the Asian Cup in doubt?
32:13 - The Socceroos in limbo: Popovic, Jordan & Qatar
35:16 - Your comments: a Tasmanian A-League team
36:40 - 16 teams & the silent APL
37:16 - Football is invisible in pubs and clubs
38:53 - Journos "killing the game"
41:53 - Does Robbie drop the F-bomb?

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