Football Matters with Cyclops

Burdekin FC’s Presentation Night will take place at Populin’s Hall on Saturday night. This promises to be a very big night, especially for the Colts who won everything in sight.

Meanwhile, Night Soccer is well into its forty eighth season and Junior Social Soccer kicked off last week. The Juniors have twenty-four teams ranging in age from Under 5 to Under 13/14. Also, the Escriva Cup, based on Night Soccer takes place on Friday 30 October.

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Night Soccer – Delta Cleaners

Night Soccer’s fourth week of competition was played in good conditions and there were no forfeits. The twenty games produced seventy-four goals.

Top scorers in the Men’s competition were Bennetts Old Grumpies with eight goals and UDS, Rocky Pond Warriors and Hardly Normal with five goals. In the Ladies competition Bodytune Bombers scored nine goals and DILLIGAF four. Individually, Khrisneel Singh was top scorer with four goals for Bennetts Old Grumpies.

There was just one draw, and only two games were won by one goal. This year initially the Men are split into three tables of eight teams and after four rounds there are now only two teams with maximum points, UDS and Nutrien Ag Solutions. In the Ladies only Bodytune Bombers and Scoregasms have won all four games.

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National

The A League Men kicked off the new season on Friday night with Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers drawing 0-0. Last year’s champions Auckland beat Melbourne City 3-1 and top the table on three points together with Macarthur and Wellington Phoenix. Brisbane Roar do not play until next Friday when they are at home to Perth Glory.

The A League Women kicked off on Saturday with Brisbane Roar losing 2-4 at home to Central Coast Mariners. Melbourne City beat Wellington Phoenix 2-1 and Victory win 1-0 at Western Sydney Wanderers. Mariners top the table and Roar hold it all up.

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International

The Socceroos have another couple of friendlies against Qatar and Jordan lined up in November, as they get ready for the AFC Asian Cup. In the Cup’s Group D they play Singapore on 9th January, Iraq on 14th January and Tajikistan on 19th January.

The Matildas played Germany, in a friendly in Germany last week and lost 2-4. They then played Haiti, again in Germany and won 7-1. The Matildas have another friendly lined up on 28th November, at home to Colombia.

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Around the World

In England and the EPL Manchester City beat Ipswich and still has maximum points from seven games, which gives them a three-point lead over Arsenal. Brighton stays in third place and Chelsea has moved up to fourth. At the foot of the table Spurs. Sunderland, Nottingham Forest and Fulham all look to be in for a difficult season.

In Germany’s Bundesliga, after six rounds, Bayern and Dortmund are a point clear of Freiburg and Leverkusen. At the bottom of the league Monchengladbach has lost all their games and look due for relegation already. Paderborn, Schalke and Union Berlin could also be in trouble.

In Italy, the top five teams all won and after seven rounds, Inter and Lazio are still joint leaders with a two-point lead over Roma. Como has moved up to fourth place and Juventus has dropped to eighth. At the foot of the table Venezia were the only one of the bottom seven teams to win.

In Spain’s la Liga, Barcelona now has maximum points from nine games and is still five points clear of Atletico and Real Madrid with Real Betis dropping to fourth place. None of the bottom ten teams won and Malaga and Valencia look to be in trouble.

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Quote the of the Week is another from England Star David Beckham “My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about seven.”

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