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Western Sydney Wanderers 0 Central Coast Mariners 2 Central Coast Mariners’ coach Graham Arnold never won a title as a player.  His club Sydney United once made the finals in the old NSL football competition but were defeated in the knockout stages.  He later went on to manage the Socceroos but could not lead them to World Cup qualification in ...

Glee – 0418 – “Shooting Star” I haven’t watched Glee since the first season of the show but I jump in for a once off viewing of the Sandy Hook school shooting inspired episode “Shooting Star“.  As a child of the Eighties I remember when television shows seldom tackled mature subject matter like drug use or gun violence and if ...

Western Sydney Wanderers 2 Brisbane Roar 0 Central Coast Mariners 1 Melbourne Victory 0 “Shinji Ono…genius!” – Brenton Speed “If we were going to get beaten by anyone, I’m glad it was Western Sydney and I’m glad it was Shinji Ono” – my mum In the end, Western Sydney Wanderers were too good and beat us for the fourth time ...

To celebrate getting a job this week, I splurged on the weekend and picked up Firefly, The Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection and Bioshock Infinite.  The Hitchcock set includes:  Saboteur, Shadow of Doubt, Rope, Rear Window, The Trouble With Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie, Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy and Family Plot.  14 movies! You ...

This week, I finally snapped an eight year long duck.  Someone offered me a job!  It had been eight years since the last time I was successful in a job interview. In 2004, I landed a job as a sales rep when I first moved to Brisbane.  I remember feeling pretty good at the time.  It was the second job ...

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.