The Beautiful Game

English Premier League outfit Reading have expressed serious interest in the Central Coast Mariners' young gun Thomas Rogic. The rumour comes as no surprise as only last year Rogic was close to finalising a deal with Reading until visa issues held back the deal. The "Nike Chance" graduate appears to have rekindled interest from international clubs after a string of strong performances in the A-League and carries an estimated transfer value in excess of $600,000.

Melbourne Victory's Gui Finkler has been ruled out of the remainder of the 2012-12 A-League season. Scans revealed Finkler will require a full knee reconstruction after being injured early on during Victory's 2-1 loss away to Western Sydney. The injury will no doubt hurt Victory's title chances and will require their under-performing marquee man, Marco Flores to step up.

Sydney FC have signed ex-Socceroos coach Frank Farina on a deal that will see him take the reigns of the team for the remainder of the A-League season. Sydney FC Chairman Scott Barlow has welcomed Farina “Frank has coached at the highest l evel and has dealt with the demands of coaching a high profile team. He also brings with him a wealth of A-League coaching experience that will serve him well as he joins us part way through our season." “We believe Frank has the experience, leadership and coaching acumen to have a positive and immediate impact on Sydney FC.” With the recent resignation of former coach Ian Crook and a string of poor results blighted further by lack of on-field quality it appears Sydney FC will overhaul their squad and management staff to rekindle what seemed likely to be a promising season. With pressure from the media, namely SBS football analysis Craig Foster for Sydney to define its playing style it appears the club will prioritise coaching st...

Even ADP wasn't enough to lift the Sky Blues After a week to forget Sydney FC were keen to bounce back with a win against the reigning Premiers. The Roar also found themselves in trouble languishing on the wrong side of the ladder. Keen to avoid the fate of Crook, Vidosic needed to somehow revitalise the Roar and prove that they could move on without An ge Postecoglou. Insanity is the repetition of the same act and expecting a different result and last night proed that Sydney should be institutionalised. Poor defending again put Sydney out of the contest as Brisbane scored at will converting four times in a night to forget for the Sky Blues. Brisbane opened the scoring when Broich's 40 metre free kick went untouched and slowly bounced into the back of the net. Brisbane built on the momentum just 3 minutes later with  Paartalu effortlessly beating Sydney's man marking and converting a rebound of Necevski's save. However Sydney's s...