PODCAST
TAG Podcast: Episode 89
Scott, Michael and Paul are all on deck as we look back at the recent EAFF E-1 Championships and ask what World Cup combatants Japan and Korea can take away from the tournament. Also on […]
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ROAD TO QATAR 2022
Japanese World Cup hopefuls given chance to impress
Along with having one of the most unnecessarily complicated names in world football, the EAFF E-1 Football Championships has, in recent years, been relegated to a position as one of the more obscure international tournaments, […]
ROAD TO QATAR 2022
Abdulrahman’s return breathes life into UAE World Cup hopes
On a typically balmy summer’s evening at Sydney’s cavernous Olympic Stadium for the quarter final of the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, a collective gasp could be heard echoing around the barely quarter-filled stadium. It was […]
PODCAST
TAG Podcast: UAE vs Australia Preview
We look ahead to a mammoth Intercontinental Playoff between Australia and the United Arab Emirates, and to help us preview all the action we are joined by esteemed journalist John McAuley from The National UAE […]
OPINION
OPINION: AFC must consider the good of the game when deciding World Cup fate
As the great and the good of association administrators prepare to descend on the 32nd AFC Congress this coming week, the power to change the course of development and opportunity across Asian football couldn’t be […]
PODCAST
TAG Podcast: Episode 82
On this week’s show we discuss the fallout to the proposal for an Asian Super League, and share our thoughts on the recent draw for the FIFA World Cup and how is helps or hinders […]
OPINION
OPINION: Does it matter where you play?
Saudi Arabia stamped their qualification for Qatar 2022 with a display against Australia at Jeddah’s King Abdullah Sports City Stadium that was the perfect encapsulation of modern Saudi football. They were disciplined and aggressive. They […]
ANALYSIS
Qualification complete, Asia’s true test awaits in Qatar
Four years is a long time in football. Drawing to a close another cycle of qualification in Asia, Iran, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Japan will once again represent the continent in the main World […]
ANALYSIS
Qualification a coming of age for the Green Falcons
Almost four years on from their infamous 5-0 defeat to Russia that opened the World Cup in 2018, Saudi Arabia have booked their return to the global showpiece, after their peerless qualification was sealed on […]
PODCAST
TAG Podcast: Episode 81
On this week’s show we preview a thrilling climax to Asian Qualifiers as Australia battles to get back into the top two in Group B, while in Group A it’s a race in three between […]