• Michael Lynch

Victory centre back Alan Baro says competing against the world's best is both exhilarating and frightening.

James Troisi is hopeful a marquee contract offer from Melbourne Victory is forthcoming.

• Michael Lynch

Australia's second-tier soccer clubs will continue their push for a national second division, but are prepared to work with the FFA on its creation.

Brisbane assistant coach Ross Aloisi has been cited and is facing hefty punishment for allegedly assaulting Adelaide United assistant coach Jacobo Ramallo.

• Matt Bungard

Aaron Mooy has received a ringing endorsement as the English football season nears its conclusion, being named in the Championship's best XI for 2016-17.

• Michael Lynch

The FFA Cup is all about giant killing. Victorian NPL clubs like Hume and Bentleigh Greens have made the semi-finals, while Green Gully last season embarrassed A-League club Central Coast Mariners when they dumped them out last August.

Adelaide United defender Dylan McGowan has been taunted by rival A-League fans about his father's murder conviction.

Manchester United moved into fifth place in the Premier League with a 3-1 victory away to struggling Middlesbrough, who sacked manager Aitor Karanka on Thursday.

• Michael Lynch

Tim Cahill did the business for Melbourne City on Saturday night, as he has done for so many clubs and his country for so many years.

• Dominic Bossi

Brisbane Roar assistant coach Ross Aloisi faces major disciplinary measures after allegedly striking a rival coach in the tunnel after the Roar's 2-1 defeat to Adelaide United.

• Michael Cockerill

Dane Ingham has made history, as far as I can tell. The first player to choose to play for New Zealand rather than Australia. As the debate swirls about whether the youth system is nearing collapse, what should we read into this?

• Emma Kemp

It took five months and seven attempts, but Western Sydney have finally broken their Spotless Stadium curse.

• Michael Lynch

The Australian Association of Football Clubs broke cover only a fortnight ago with a disruptive agenda designed to challenge the status quo in the structure of Australian soccer.

Two headers by Craig Dawson and a Hal Robson-Kanu strike lifted West Bromwich Albion to a 3-1 win over Arsenal and piled more misery on their manager Arsene Wenger.

• Michael Lynch

A first-half Tim Cahill header and three second-half goals, one to substitute Nick Fitzgerald and two to captain Bruno Fornaroli, eased Melbourne City to a comfortable 4-0 win over Newcastle Jets at AAMI Park on Saturday night.

• Dominic Bossi

FFA coming under more pressure from clubs, with FIFA to relinquish further control of the game to stakeholders.

• Michael Lynch

Will the A-League clubs – a number of whom are in favour of breaking away from FFA as a last resort – take the plunge and provoke a schism with soccer's governing body by setting up an independent A-League?

Tim Cahill won't be held back in preparation for Socceroos duty on Saturday night when his A-League side host Newcastle.

• Michael Lynch

Far too often in Australia do we hear of players aged 22 or 23 being referred to as youngsters. They are not. In football terms, they are almost middle-aged.

• Eamonn Tiernan

Canberra Olympic coach Frank Cachia has joined the chorus of those welcoming a proposed national second division.

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• Michael Cockerill

Who can save Wellington Phoenix? Not Rob Morrison, I fear. The chairman of a club which almost passed into history last season is showing few signs of learning from the bruising experience.

• James Ducker

Manchester City's captain is one of several likely departures.

• Michael Lynch

When Ange Postecoglou picked Adelaide United teenager Riley McGree in the Socceroos squad earlier this week, young A-League players must have asked themselves: "Could that be me?"

• Michael Lynch

Melbourne Victory is confident of receiving confirmation by Friday morning that the deal to offload their marquee player Oliver Bozanic to a struggling J-League side has been completed.

• Martin Flanagan

Kevin Muscat admits to ''one or two things'' in his playing career he'd take back if he could. "But you can't go back."

Melbourne Victory have banned several fans from matches after they were involved in a violent brawl with Sydney supporters early this month.

• John Percy

Samir Nasri has described Jamie Vardy as "a cheat" and accused the Leicester City striker of play-acting to get him sent off, following their angry confrontation in the Champions League tie on Tuesday night.

Monaco stunned Manchester City to reach the Champions League quarter-finals, overturning a two-goal first-leg deficit with a 3-1 victory in a pulsating clash to go through on away goals.

• Emma Kemp

Western Sydney have survived a late onslaught to defeat FC Seoul 3-2 and resurrect their ghastly Asian Champions League campaign.