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Without ‘Old Soccer’ there’d be no ‘New Football’
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Enlarge textA major Australian Football magazine recently declared that the evolution of The World Game being referred to as Football instead of Soccer was one of the 5 greatest moments in the sport’s history.
Football Hall Of Fame Induction Luncheon
Simon Hill who wrote the piece went on to stipulate that “Some in Australia persist in calling it ‘soccer’ - it doesn’t matter. They can call the game what they like - but this underlines that they have no right to impose THEIR name on our sport.”
topBrawls, fines and quitters… but Chinese Football stutters on.
Chinese football and in particular the Chinese Super League’s continuous troubles have been something I’ve talked about on The Alchemy Football Show a number of times this year already, but unfortunately the Chinese Super League is in turmoil once again.
Li Weifeng
Chinese Football is at a crossroads. In the lead up to the 2002 World Cup (China’s first and only appearance in the global competition) 170 million TV sets were bought in China just to watch the Chinese national team’s debut in the biggest sporting tournament in the world.
Alchemy talks to Matthew Thompson the author of My Colombian Death.
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At 35, Matthew Thompson quit his job at a daily Australian newspaper, to search for a previous life he might have led in South America.
Dim Sim, Ha Gou and Siu Mai, how much do you know about the Yumcha culture in Hong Kong?
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Dim Sim, Ha Gou and Siu Mai, how much do you know about the Yumcha culture in Hong Kong? James Wong of a well-known Yumcha restaurant chats to Alchemy's Jennifer Ho and teach her how to order mouth-watering Yumcha dishes in Cantonese.
Have you heard of the donkey punch?
Donkey Punch
It’s a sexual myth and the title for a new budget British film that stirred controversy first week after its premier in the U.K.
Alchemy Game Review - Soul Caliber IV
Soul Caliber IV just hit the shelves, with some unlikely additions to the franchise roster, in the form of two Jedi's...
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When a big budget game hits its fourth installment you kind of hope they would have worked out any kinks in the franchise by now, but when the first game was already awesome, then surely the latest in the series must be 4 times as good! Well yes and No...
Alchemy Game Review - Ninja Gaiden 2
It's fast, it's brutal, it's bloody and it's hard; It's Ninja Gaiden 2!
Ninja!
This month marks the return of everyone's favorite ninja, Ryu. Katana in hand ready to slice and dice everything (and I mean everything!) in his path. Ninja Gaiden 2, the follow up to the groundbreaking Ninja Gaiden, originally on the Xbox, it blew everyone away with its extreme carnage and intense game-play. Four years later and Team Ninja, the developers Ninja Gaiden have released Ninja Gaiden 2 for the Xbox 360.
A few years ago Gnarls Barkley burst onto the scene with some 'crazy' hits, extremely popular in both the mainstream and alternative circles... But not is all as it appears to be when it comes to this Dynamic Duo
Gnarls Barkley
I don't always assume every song has samples in it. I'll often give any track I hear the benefit of the doubt, which makes it all the more hard when a song that I thought had excellent composition was largely based on a sample...
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