It Never Stops

As I find myself up at 4am watching the mighty Socceroos take on England on a cold Saturday morning in my Adelaide Lounge room I realise that the World game is still alive and that the season never ends.

Of course my beloved REDS have finished their A league campaign and I celebrated the end of their season along with 50,000 other South Australians at Adelaide Oval watching Adelaide United hold up a big shiny trophy. However I was somewhat fooled in thinking that the show was over and I would have to spend the next six months waiting for round one.

But this is the world game, the game that never stops and like all you world game fans out there that find yourself up at 3am on random Tuesday mornings, the beautiful game is up with you. However it is not just the early morning games that continue throughout the year, it is also the Socceroos world cup qualifying home games that will keep us glued to our screens or filling the Australian stadiums all year round.

We can sit back and watch the national team sell out Etihad stadium in Melbourne and sell out Stadium Australia in Sydney over the next 10 days as the Socceroos take on Greece and who can’t help but be excited by the mouth watering clash later this year when the Socceroos will host Japan at maybe the MCG in front of 100k in a crucial world cup qualifier. But it is not just the Socceroos that keep the world game flame alive, it is also the International Champions Cup in July that will see the MCG host the likes of Atletico Madrid, Juventus and Tottenham with local team Melbourne Victory getting to take on the world’s best.

So as other sports play for just 6 months a year and then takes a siesta, the world game like the earth as it spins and rotates around the sun never stops spinning and never has the sun set on it. So when they say will Football one day dominate the Australian Landscape and have a greater presence in the sporting landscape of OZ one would think the continuous nature of the world footballing beast will play a part in that. You see the World game never stops, it never sleeps, it is 365 days a year, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day and twice on Sunday, but most importantly it is BEAUTIFUL the whole time.