Three Years Tops!

As per usual, as the anniversary of the blog's foundation comes along, I would like to thank certain people and organisations for several things that happened over the past year - if I've missed you and you think you should be in, the fault is all mine.

I'd like to start off by thanking The Kiss of Death for its weekly articles - apart from taking my least favourite task of match previews away from me, your writing and style improved markedly as the season went on - and it was hilarious when people thought I was responsible for those entries. Blogger for finally improving the heck out of their blogging platform - it's made everything much prettier and easier to handle. Everyone who commented on a page who wasn't a spammer. People who linked articles on here to other places. GoalWeekly for publishing my match report and my book reviews. Half Time Heroes for also publishing my book reviews. Thanks to the people behind the Bolasepako and Jakarta Casual blogs, of course - thanks to the Singapore Cup, we had the opportunity to discuss issues of common ground.

I would also like to extend my thanks to Paul Conroy - I only saw him once this year, but the reassurance that he provided about a certain controversial article was very much appreciated. Gains and Johnny Diegan for helping me write a match report. Those two again with Steve from Broady, great public and private transport traveling companions to seemingly every stupid corner of this city. Nick (Go Pies!), Cuddles and Tony, as per usual. Ian Syson for some reason.

And lastly thanks to everyone who continues to read this guff and visit this site. I'd still write it if you didn't come by, but the fact that people do, and the positive feedback I get makes it far more worthwhile.

Half Time Heroes

Yeah, another link, another web bandwagon to get on board. Half Time Heroes is the brainchild of Eamonn Flanagan, of the Nearpost Blog, but it's been taken over by others along the way. Unlike a few other blog/zine/site Australian soccer projects, this one has managed to survive for more than three seconds, and more than that, is seemingly thriving, celebrating it's first anniversary this month. I've done a couple of book reviews for it (Making News and Mr Cleansheets), and hopefully I can contribute something different for it along the way - though with its obvious A-League bias (and really, what doesn't have an A-League focus these days?) I'm not sure what the hell I could come up with. Anyway, it's not a bad read for people with broader footballing tastes than my own, so check it out.