‘The best left foot is back’: Juan Mata lands at Wanderers amid A-League Men fanfare
The signing of Champions League winner Juan Mata by A-League Men club Western Sydney Wanderers has been hailed as ‘priceless’
May 2024
Three things
Three things with Ian ‘Dicko’ Dickson: ‘It’s a dirty, smelly old beast, rather like myself’
In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the TV personality tells us about his emotional connection to his car – and a missing box of memories
April 2024
Sportblog
Western Sydney Wanderers: why does the potential giant continue to sleep?
Memories of a red and black behemoth feel increasingly distant after yet another failed A-League Men campaign
March 2024
David Squires on Australian sport
David Squires on … Western Sydney Wanderers’ seven stages of grief
Police eject 14 people as Wanderers fans stage walkout on fiery A-League Sydney derby
February 2024
A-League coach Marko Rudan faces Football Australia sanctions for post-match tirade
FA will issue Wanderers coach with show cause notice after press conference outburst over referees and ‘stigma’ against Western Sydney
May 2023
Sportblog
Sydney rivalry shows why derbies are the lifeblood of Australian football
Sydney FC win derby despite fan boycott to advance to A-League Men semi-finals
April 2023
Wanderers seal return to A-League finals at last with defeat of Victory
Western Sydney Wanderers 2-1 defeat of Melbourne Victory ends City’s dreams of third straight ALM premiership
February 2023
David Squires on Australian sport
David Squires on … the Sydney derby soap opera
Our cartoonist looks back at the fiery encounter that sets things up nicely for next month’s rematch
August 2022
Sportblog
Jack Rodwell’s football journey from England prospect to Sydney outcast
Attempted career reboots for the footballing pariah have amounted to little with his immense talent unfulfilled
July 2022
Sportblog
Miloš Ninković joins infamous band of football turncoats with cross-Sydney move
Joey Lynch
By moving to Western Sydney Wanderers the Serbian playmaker has ensured any bond built with the Sydney FC fanbase will evaporate
April 2022
Sportblog
Without survival of fittest A-League Men will keep ending with a whimper
The most gripping football on offer around the world exists because clubs risk relegation to a lower tier
February 2022
Ben Garuccio stuns A-League with ‘unbelievable’ scorpion kick goal
A-Leagues ‘drinks breaks’ for ads are a killjoy but so is the football they interrupt
Joey Lynch
December 2021
Melbourne wins interstate battle of ALM brands as Western Sydney’s woes continue
Second-best Wanderers under the microscope after slow start to ALM season
Joey Lynch
November 2021
Jack Rodwell returns to football with Western Sydney Wanderers
Sturridge, City slickers and a race for the spoon: your A-League Men guide
May 2021
Busy doing nothing: mastering the art of masterly inactivity in the A-League
Lionel Messi has refined the skill, the VAR has not, and A-League officials lie somewhere in between
