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Brisbane Roar win the Premieres Plate

Last weekend over 150,000 people took to the streets around the country in protest of the Abbott government.  Tony Abbott has been in power less than six months and has surprised everyone with his surprisingly blunt level of scumbaggery.  Most recently he was at a school fielding questions from children and when asked by a girl about gay marriage, he ...

MELBOURNE VICTORY 3 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 1 NEWCASTLE JETS 1 MELBOURNE HEART 0 SYDNEY FC 3 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 1 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 1 PERTH GLORY 1 BRISBANE ROAR 2 ADELAIDE UNITED 1 Stopping The Slump The Brisbane Roar vs Adelaide United fixture was billed as a potential Grand Final preview.  The game itself had a pretty quiet first half and ...

Sir-Mix-A-Lot

If I’m honest, I haven’t been entirely happy with The FAT Website for a while.  It runs on a WordPress template that is five years old, it looks a bit tired and I’m in a bit of a rut writing about the same three or four things over and over again.  When I eventually get around to finding someone that ...

Worst. Honeymoon. Ever.

I think I’ve mentioned this before in a previous post but for somebody who carries the reputation of being a film fanatic amongst my friends, I feel as though I haven’t seen nearly enough of the classics to warrant such a reputation.  My pile of shame (famous films that I’ve never seen) includes The Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now, One Flew ...

My collection of trading cards including Desert Storm, Garbage Pail Kids and football.

ADELAIDE UNITED 5 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 1 BRISBANE ROAR 3 PERTH GLORY 1 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 2 SYDNEY FC 1 MELBOURNE HEART 4 MELBOURNE VICTORY 0 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 0 NEWCASTLE JETS 2 We’re Pretty Bad, Perth Are Even Worse Brisbane Roar snapped their three game winless streak at home against a turgid Perth Glory last week.  It was a game ...

Over the weekend, Jen and I attended the wedding of our friends Mitchell and Chrystal at Ocean View.  Mitchell and Chrystal have been together for fourteen years but had a whirlwind engagement that lasted just three weeks.  That’s kind of what I like about them as a couple though – they quite happily march to the beat of their own ...