Central Coast Mariners win A-League, complete treble
Central Coast Mariners are 2023-24 Isuzu UTE A-League Champions, after a dramatic 3-1 comeback win over Melbourne Victory at Industree Group Stadium on Saturday night
Jason Geria opened the scoring for Victory in the 50th minute with a thumping strike into the top-left corner but in the first minute of second-half stoppage time, Mariners substitute Ryan Edmondson snared a dramatic equaliser to ignite the majority of the 21,379-strong crowd – an all-time record attendance at Industree Group Stadium.
Seven minutes into the first period of additional extra time, Miguel Di Pizio scored the goal that set the Mariners on course to the Championship, and became the youngest goalscorer in the history of Australian national league Grand Finals with a composed finish to a clinical Mariners attack.
After claiming the lead the Mariners never relinquished it, with Ryan Edmondson’s second of the night deep into the second half of extra-time sealing the club’s second-consecutive Championship title – and a third trophy in 2023-24, adding to the Premiers Plate and the AFC Cup title. They become the first Australian side ever to win a treble.
Real Madrid have announced the signing of French striker Kylian Mbappe. Mbappe signs a five-year deal as a free agent and details of his new contract have not been disclosed.
El Real Madrid C. F. y Kylian Mbappé han alcanzado un acuerdo por el que será jugador del Real Madrid las próximas cinco temporadas. Source: Realmadrid.com
British football hooligans are on the offensive once again
THE CONTEST between Arsenal and West Ham on February 22nd will be fierce. Probably not on the pitch: Arsenal is the strong favourite to win the fixture. The Gunners are second in the Premier League, while the Hammers are languishing in 16th. Instead, the battle will be in the stadium grounds. When the teams met in November, fans could be seen brawling in the stands. Both clubs rank in the top five in terms of supporter arrests and banning orders, with 85 and 103 respectively last season. The “English disease”, as football hooliganism is known, is flaring up again.
As prime minister, Margaret Thatcher was troubled by football thuggery. She considered it a threat to British society as grave as the IRA and miners’ strikes. In 1985, 39 people died at the European Cup Final as Juventus fans, fleeing an assault from Liverpool supporters, were crushed when a wall collapsed. English clubs were subsequently prohibited from European club competitions for five years.
Fans focused their violent energies on local games instead. During the 1987-88 season, there were an estimated 6,150 fan arrests across the top four divisions. In a crackdown dubbed “Operation Fulltime”, the police arrested club ringleaders.
The British government passed various acts to stamp out hooliganism in the 1980s and 1990s: measures included a stronger police presence, more surveillance, better-designed stadiums with seating and bans for the worst offenders. Fans were prohibited from drinking alcohol anywhere with a view of the pitch. Clubs also increased ticket prices. According to History & Policy, an academic group, ticket prices for the Premier League went up by more than 300% between 1989 and 1999.
These measures helped. By the 2000-01 season, the number of football-related arrests had fallen to 4,200 across the top four divisions as well as domestic tournaments and international fixtures (see chart). Arrests continued to trend downwards for the next 20 years. In 2018-19, the last full season before the pandemic, there were 1,400 arrests.
But since then, hooliganism has surged—though it is some way off its high point. In 2021-22 there were 2,200 arrests. (Many were apprehended as a result of the European Championship final at Wembley, when more than 2,000 people forced their way into the stadium without tickets.) In subsequent seasons, arrests increased to almost 2,300, then 2,600. Police reports mention violent disorder, hate crime and the throwing of missiles.
This is not a uniquely English problem, despite the moniker. Hundreds of French fans clashed in May. At the end of 2024 fights between rival clubs in Germany left 79 injured, including ten police officers. But detailed data in Britain provide the clearest picture of a problem that is worsening once more.
Football hooliganism is a heady brew of tribalism and testosterone; there is a “historical alignment with working-class masculinity”, according to Paul Davis, a sports sociologist at the University of Sunderland. In “Among the Thugs”, a book published in 1990, Bill Buford, a journalist, sought to understand why “young males riot every Saturday”. A straight answer eluded him—he found that it was often gainfully employed fans that enjoyed the fighting—but he likened it to other rebellious outlets such as drink and drugs. “Violence is their antisocial kick, their mind-altering experience.”
In fact, drugs have always been part of the problem, but now they are widespread. After America, Britain has the highest rate of cocaine use. In 2021 a study of 1,500 fans in Britain found that 30% had witnessed cocaine use in stadiums. New regulations were introduced in November 2022, stating that any fans caught with Class A drugs (including cocaine, ecstasy and heroin) could be banned for up to ten years and receive a criminal conviction. Yet arrests continued to rise. Compared with the same November-May period in the 2022-23 season, arrests for drug-related offences in 2023-24 increased by nearly 60%.
In response, police officers are bringing sniffer dogs into grounds and can administer drug tests on arrest. Clubs are also increasing awareness of the health risks of combining cocaine and alcohol (such as a higher chance of heart attacks).
Stadiums could be even stricter, particularly on alcohol consumption: sports venues in France, for instance, have to get a legal exemption to sell it. Research is also ongoing as to the impact of kick-off times on individuals’ propensity to kick off. In 2021 researchers studying the relationship between domestic violence, alcohol and football fixtures argued that weekday matches and later kick-offs would help mitigate abusive behaviour, as “Early games lead perpetrators to start drinking alcohol earlier and continue to do so through the afternoon and evening.”
Yet for miscreants, the goal is to feel the thrill of violence. Mr Buford observed that, for men who had never been to war, football bust-ups offered something akin to combat. “They talk about it with the pride of the privileged, of those who have had, seen, felt, been through something that other people have not,” he wrote. His subjects reflected on the pleasure of nastiness, “about the crack, the buzz and the fix. They talk about having to have it, of being unable to forget it when they do, of not wanting to forget it—ever.” The majority of football fans, however, would prefer it if hooliganism were a distant memory.
Real Madrid hit 10,000: a look back at each milestone goal
French midfielder Aurélien Tchouaméni makes history as Real Madrid scores its 10,000th official goal.
Real Madrid just crossed a line that only a few clubs on the planet could even dream of: 10,000 official goals. The honor of striking that milestone belonged to Aurélien Tchouaméni, who etched his name in club history with goal number ten thousand in 2025.
It’s taken 123 years, countless legends, and matches across domestic and international competitions to get here. And while Tchouaméni is the latest to enter the record books, he joins a rare group of players who each delivered a “milenario” – Real Madrid’s thousandth, two-thousandth, and so on.
Let’s rewind through each landmark goal.
Real Madrid’s milestone scorers: who got each 1,000th goal?
The first milestone came in 1933, when Luis Regueiro notched goal number 1,000. Then, every decade or so, a new name added to the club’s layered legacy:
2,000: Luis Molowny, 1949
3,000: Enrique Mateos, 1959
4,000: Sebastián Fleitas, 1969
5,000: Juanito, 1982
6,000: Míchel, 1991
7,000: Luis Figo, 2001
8,000: Karim Benzema, 2010
9,000: Gareth Bale, 2017
10,000: Aurélien Tchouaméni, 2025
Where did the 10,000 goals come from?
Real Madrid’s scoring avalanche isn’t just about LaLiga, although the Spanish top flight accounts for 6,545 of them. The rest are spread across every competition the club’s ever been in, including:
Spanish Cup competitions (1,417 goals)
European Cup/Champions League (1,103 goals)
Regional and historical cups, like the Copa Eva Duarte and Copa de la Coronación
Global tournaments, including 43 goals at the FIFA Club World Cup
The Brazilian club Santos FC became the first team in the world to surpass the 10,000-goal mark in 1998, gaining recognition in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Central Coast Mariners win A-League, complete treble
Central Coast Mariners are 2023-24 Isuzu UTE A-League Champions, after a dramatic 3-1 comeback win over Melbourne Victory at Industree Group Stadium on Saturday nightJason Geria opened the scoring for Victory in the 50th minute with a thumping strike into the top-left corner but in the first minute of second-half stoppage time, Mariners substitute Ryan Edmondson snared a dramatic equaliser to ignite the majority of the 21,379-strong crowd – an all-time record attendance at Industree Group Stadium.
Seven minutes into the first period of additional extra time, Miguel Di Pizio scored the goal that set the Mariners on course to the Championship, and became the youngest goalscorer in the history of Australian national league Grand Finals with a composed finish to a clinical Mariners attack.
After claiming the lead the Mariners never relinquished it, with Ryan Edmondson’s second of the night deep into the second half of extra-time sealing the club’s second-consecutive Championship title – and a third trophy in 2023-24, adding to the Premiers Plate and the AFC Cup title. They become the first Australian side ever to win a treble.
https://khelnow.com/football/indian-football-a-league-central-coast-mariners-champions-202405
OFFICIAL: Real Madrid sign Mbappe
Real Madrid have announced the signing of French striker Kylian Mbappe. Mbappe signs a five-year deal as a free agent and details of his new contract have not been disclosed.
El Real Madrid C. F. y Kylian Mbappé han alcanzado un acuerdo por el que será jugador del Real Madrid las próximas cinco temporadas.
Source: Realmadrid.com
https://www.managingmadrid.com/2024/6/3/24170286/real-madrid-sign-mbappe-official-2024
Contract is of 1 match
He will play for Paro against Church boys in ACGL play off
Neymar returns to Santos!
British football hooligans are on the offensive once again
THE CONTEST between Arsenal and West Ham on February 22nd will be fierce. Probably not on the pitch: Arsenal is the strong favourite to win the fixture. The Gunners are second in the Premier League, while the Hammers are languishing in 16th. Instead, the battle will be in the stadium grounds. When the teams met in November, fans could be seen brawling in the stands. Both clubs rank in the top five in terms of supporter arrests and banning orders, with 85 and 103 respectively last season. The “English disease”, as football hooliganism is known, is flaring up again.
Fans focused their violent energies on local games instead. During the 1987-88 season, there were an estimated 6,150 fan arrests across the top four divisions. In a crackdown dubbed “Operation Fulltime”, the police arrested club ringleaders.
The British government passed various acts to stamp out hooliganism in the 1980s and 1990s: measures included a stronger police presence, more surveillance, better-designed stadiums with seating and bans for the worst offenders. Fans were prohibited from drinking alcohol anywhere with a view of the pitch. Clubs also increased ticket prices. According to History & Policy, an academic group, ticket prices for the Premier League went up by more than 300% between 1989 and 1999.
These measures helped. By the 2000-01 season, the number of football-related arrests had fallen to 4,200 across the top four divisions as well as domestic tournaments and international fixtures (see chart). Arrests continued to trend downwards for the next 20 years. In 2018-19, the last full season before the pandemic, there were 1,400 arrests.
Football hooliganism is a heady brew of tribalism and testosterone; there is a “historical alignment with working-class masculinity”, according to Paul Davis, a sports sociologist at the University of Sunderland. In “Among the Thugs”, a book published in 1990, Bill Buford, a journalist, sought to understand why “young males riot every Saturday”. A straight answer eluded him—he found that it was often gainfully employed fans that enjoyed the fighting—but he likened it to other rebellious outlets such as drink and drugs. “Violence is their antisocial kick, their mind-altering experience.”
In fact, drugs have always been part of the problem, but now they are widespread. After America, Britain has the highest rate of cocaine use. In 2021 a study of 1,500 fans in Britain found that 30% had witnessed cocaine use in stadiums. New regulations were introduced in November 2022, stating that any fans caught with Class A drugs (including cocaine, ecstasy and heroin) could be banned for up to ten years and receive a criminal conviction. Yet arrests continued to rise. Compared with the same November-May period in the 2022-23 season, arrests for drug-related offences in 2023-24 increased by nearly 60%.
In response, police officers are bringing sniffer dogs into grounds and can administer drug tests on arrest. Clubs are also increasing awareness of the health risks of combining cocaine and alcohol (such as a higher chance of heart attacks).
Stadiums could be even stricter, particularly on alcohol consumption: sports venues in France, for instance, have to get a legal exemption to sell it. Research is also ongoing as to the impact of kick-off times on individuals’ propensity to kick off. In 2021 researchers studying the relationship between domestic violence, alcohol and football fixtures argued that weekday matches and later kick-offs would help mitigate abusive behaviour, as “Early games lead perpetrators to start drinking alcohol earlier and continue to do so through the afternoon and evening.”
Yet for miscreants, the goal is to feel the thrill of violence. Mr Buford observed that, for men who had never been to war, football bust-ups offered something akin to combat. “They talk about it with the pride of the privileged, of those who have had, seen, felt, been through something that other people have not,” he wrote. His subjects reflected on the pleasure of nastiness, “about the crack, the buzz and the fix. They talk about having to have it, of being unable to forget it when they do, of not wanting to forget it—ever.” The majority of football fans, however, would prefer it if hooliganism were a distant memory.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/sports/british-football-hooligans-are-on-the-offensive-once-again-101740127448175.html
Real Madrid hit 10,000: a look back at each milestone goal
French midfielder Aurélien Tchouaméni makes history as Real Madrid scores its 10,000th official goal.
Real Madrid just crossed a line that only a few clubs on the planet could even dream of: 10,000 official goals. The honor of striking that milestone belonged to Aurélien Tchouaméni, who etched his name in club history with goal number ten thousand in 2025.
It’s taken 123 years, countless legends, and matches across domestic and international competitions to get here. And while Tchouaméni is the latest to enter the record books, he joins a rare group of players who each delivered a “milenario” – Real Madrid’s thousandth, two-thousandth, and so on.
Let’s rewind through each landmark goal.
Real Madrid’s milestone scorers: who got each 1,000th goal?
The first milestone came in 1933, when Luis Regueiro notched goal number 1,000. Then, every decade or so, a new name added to the club’s layered legacy:
Where did the 10,000 goals come from?
Real Madrid’s scoring avalanche isn’t just about LaLiga, although the Spanish top flight accounts for 6,545 of them. The rest are spread across every competition the club’s ever been in, including:
- Spanish Cup competitions (1,417 goals)
- European Cup/Champions League (1,103 goals)
- Regional and historical cups, like the Copa Eva Duarte and Copa de la Coronación
- Global tournaments, including 43 goals at the FIFA Club World Cup
https://en.as.com/soccer/real-madrid-hit-10000-a-look-back-at-each-milestone-goal-n/Premier League clubs Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal have achieved this feat, as have Spanish giants FC Barcelona
https://www.arsenal.com/news/our-history-told-through-10000-goals
Brazilian club CR Flamengo have reportedly scored the most number of goals scored in the world, having scored 13,000 goals in 2024.
https://www.flamengo.com.br/noticias/futebol/gol-zagallo--relembre-momentos-historicos-em-que-o-mengao-balancou-as-redes
The Brazilian club Santos FC became the first team in the world to surpass the 10,000-goal mark in 1998, gaining recognition in the Guinness Book of World Records.
https://english.sun.mv/2542