Adelaide United 1 Brisbane Roar 2 Perth Glory 1 Melbourne Victory 2 The Red Menace It was a nervy final five minutes but Brisbane Roar have advanced to a semi final meeting with Western Sydney Wanderers after dispatching Adelaide United at Hindmarsh Stadium.  The Roar went up 2-0 in the first half and looked comfortable for most of the game ...

Wrestlemania 29 Wrestlemania 29 won’t likely be remembered as one of the all time great Wrestlemanias.  It doesn’t come close to the best – VIII, X, XVII, XIV – but instead it fell somewhere in the middle.  The impressive Met Life set design, sellout crowd and excellent CM Punk vs Undertaker match were all big positives but some of the ...

Wrestlemania 29 is taking place tonight, emanating from the outdoor Metlife Stadium in New Jersey where a ridiculously large crowd of 80,000 people are expected for a show featuring a whole bunch of old dudes who have been wrestling forever. The card is a mixed bag.  It features a lot of marquee matches but all of them are repeats.  The ...

For any regular reader of The FAT Website, one of my identifiable traits is that I blog a lot.  With few breaks, I’ve been doing it for the better part of twelve years now.  For even more people who know me in my day-to-day life offline, an even stronger identifiable trait is that I love film.  Both my love of ...

R.I.P  Roger Ebert.

You want fries with that?

The West Wing Season Four The fourth season of The West Wing sees the show continue on as strong as ever.  It is however, notable for bringing a close to the Aaron Sorkin years on the show as he left at the end of the season due to disagreements with Warner Bros.  The show also loses Rob Lowe midway through ...

Take a bow, Lara

Jen and I spent the Easter weekend camping in Stanthorpe. It’s a damn sight cooler in South Queensland and Stanthorpe is situated just above the border to New South Wales.  But the weather gods smiled upon us and we managed to avoid any of the storms that were in the forecast.  In fact, the weather was good enough on Saturday ...

Brisbane Roar 3 Sydney FC 1 Newcastle Jets 0 Western Sydney Wanderers 3 Central Coast Mariners 2 Melbourne Heart 1 Perth Glory 1 Adelaide United 1 Wanderers Win The Premiere’s Plate In Their Inaugural Season The eighth season of the Hyundai A-League has concluded in a last gasp final round that saw Western Sydney Wanderers claim the Premiere’s Plate in ...