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'''[[Cricket Rules|Cricket]]'''
The Australian cricket team is among the best in the world, and brings us such names as Shane Warne, Alan Border, and, of course, Sir Donald Bradman, who is so much of an Aussie icon that [[The
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The massive multi-ethnic wave of immigrants that came to Australia after World War II brought a lot of soccer fans into the country, who formed their own teams and became devoted followers of the game: this resulted in an expansion of popularity for soccer, but it also resulted in it being dismissed as an "ethnic sport" (often by using the term 'wogball') by Anglo-Australians. And this could be a fair charge -- the National Soccer League, established 1977, was primarily made up of ethnic-based teams (whether Greek, Italian, Serbian etc.)
And so it was up till as recently as 2005. But then several things happened which has caused the popularity of the sport to expand and diversify rapidly: first, the NSL crumbled in 2004 partly due to [[Executive Meddling]] and being [[Screwed
Football followers generally get split up into 2 sects, with one of them split again into two. Local supporters are the first, and they are split into "Old Soccer" and "New Football", named as the NSL era organisation was called Soccer Australia, whilst the A-League organisation was renamed to Football Federation Australia.
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