Sports Roundup: June 2026

I’ve been on the dole several months now and it fucking sucks ass. As it always does.

One of the reasons I hate leftists so much is that they insist on punishing and stifling independence in any way possible.

But here we are and I am attempting to deal with it.

The Ice-Hockey:

Montreal got knocked out of the Stanley Cup and a player they feted with a torch-holding ceremony during one of their recent playoff games decided to kill himself about a day before their final losing playoff game. Talk about a downer. After much speculation that it was CTE or deep-harrowing mysterious depression, a family member came out and said that this guy had never gotten over b being excluded from the ice-hockey hall of fame for so long….

..and that was why. He had four Stanley Cup trophies, a wife, four kids, a business, fame…. but cos of that one little thing, he just couldn’t handle continuing to live. Suicide is stupid.

The Soccer/ AKA Futebol:

The world cup is on and thanks to the post 9/11 globalist fetish of mass migration it just looks like a dogs breakfast of weird names, weird haircuts and split loyalties. this was always a thing when watching world cup soccer but at least there was some degree of uniformity in the national squads themselves. They would have the same kind of weird names, the same kind of werid haircuts, and you as the fan might have the split loyalties as opposed to the players.

Now its you the fan who is just craving for your own team to somewhat represent you on the national stage in a manner you deem respectable and consistent with your culture.

Australia is in a weird moment this time.

I’ve been following the Socceroos since 1998… a world cup which they missed…. because they fucked up a 2-0 lead in the last qualifying game against Iran at the MCG in Melbourne, to draw 2-2. I only found out about that later on though.

I didn’t catch the last world cup in Qatar in 2022, as I was too pissed off and my life too ruined by two years of covid lockdowns and the attempt to vaccine people with poison pharmajunk against their will. This time I will probably follow it though it’s gonna be hard to watch games live without a TV and with sports-rights locked up in such a stuffy corporate way these days. Increasingly I feel like this is becoming less and less a game of the people. A lot of the games’ great personalities have died in recent years (Pele, Maradona, Cruyff… in Australia we lost Les Murray). In addition to the whole mass-migration debacle diluting the strength of citizenship and nationhood and causing collapses in the native birth-rates of so many countries…. and pajeet and rajesh just can’t play soccer. 48 teams in a world cup is way too many. It’ll be interesting to say how Curacao and Cape Verde do. I’ll try and follow along in good faith.

A key game for the Socceroos is against the US.

In Australia, it’s typically patriotic wogs, lefty skips and and other misfits who play soccer. I played it. ex-Socceroo (from the OG 1974 World Cup team) Johnny Warren had a famous book about Australian Soccer, which I want to read one day, called Shielas Wogs and Pooftas. The title sums it up though.

The team does nevertheless bravely try to lean into patriotism. The problem is how can you be patriotic when you’re essentially new-blood in a country that essentially hates itself for no good reason (thanks to the elites projecting their own guilt about indigenous Australia onto the whole population and destroying evry last remnant of national pride they can find) and which has been run into the ground by such inspid and dispicable traitors? SO its hard to imagine how you would want to win and have such a smug fuckwit like Albo celebrating your patriotic efforts…

The USA team seem to be in the reverse scenario. They have a super-patriotic leader and incumbent-government right now as well as home-ground advantage… and yet everyone who seems to play soccer in the US as well as a large portion of the fanbase, are from that country’s self-loathing left. On top of that they are playing in Seattle, which is one of the most woke-left cities there is. I was there in2008 and it was evident then, and this was before BLM and the Seattle chop zone etc. You can read alot about the plight of Seatle online. But ill just say the white Americans there hate themselves more than anywhere else, and paradoxically they had one of the worst black-homeless problems of all the US cities I saw. I can imagine a stadium where everyone will be cheering and supporting the team other than the one they are playing for or nationally aligned with. That game is on June 20th. It’ll be a fucking shitshow for the ages, believe you me.

On top of that the young Aussie prodigy of Croat background who played youth level for Australia and was based in Sydney has opted to switch his allegiance to Croatia (but still failed to make that country’s national team) while an Italian youth talent who lives in Italy and has some peripheral association with Australia has been poached to play for the Socceroos. This is a reverse situation of the early 2000s when Christian Viere, who was born in Italy but raised in Australia, opted to play internationally for Italy. But it turns out that since the Italians last won the world cup in 2006 with an all ethnically-Italian team (that cheated in their winning games against Australia in the last16 and, I would argue, France in the final) has since experienced a dramatic collapse of fortunes in world cup performances. They were eliminated in the group stages of 2010 and 2014, and haven’t made a world cup since. This was a country that always played as though they were still playing in the glory of 1930s fascist Italy. So I don’t understand what’s gone wrong. Too many video games and smartphones? Or have the best of the men gone to MMA training so they can fight off Ursual Merkels diversity-imports? Who the fuck knows. But I’ve put the question out there regardless.

BTW, I am off the Meloni train. Her selfie with stinkshit Modi was a disgrace and a violation of the principles of nationalism. Modi is exporting his third-world failure to the world to deal with and its fucking wrong.

Nomenclature:

In Australia:

Football is called soccer. If ya wanna be cynical you’ll call it wogball. If ya wanna fancy it up, then in ode to the late-great sbs commentator Les Murray, you’ll call it “futebol”.

Football, especially in Victoria, is what we call Australian Rules Football, AKA aussie-rules, AKA footy, AKA eggball, AKA gayball, AKA fagball, AKA aerial ballet.

There’s also Rugby, played most prominently in NSW and QLD, which came up with all the more slanderous names for AFL, especially the ones which question the heteronormative manhood of the players, and which also famously has had incidents where the male players have fingered one another in the pack-plays during games (called the scrum) and which periodically has weird homoerotic off-field controversies (spit-roasting and whatnot… sorry if any family is reading this, I think family might be the only people who read this).

Speaking of Aussie Rules:

The Hawks are having a fucking great season. 3rd on the ladder. We are back. And I reckon footy is back…. except for if you are most of the other melbourne-based teams who are nearly all occupying the bottom-half of the ladder.

What’s gone wrong with them? Well i blame hipsterdom mainly (which mutated into rainbow wokeism), which was focussed mostly in Melbourne’s inneer suburbs especially the north, and so infested all the clubs that are HQd and have their spiritual heartlands in those suburbs. But the trendy turf, and thus its odious culture of leftist conformity, excluded the territory belonging to the three daggiest clubs: Hawthorn (the uncool right-leaning east-side), Melbourne (the toffy old-money), and Geelong (essentially a large country town). Hawthorn, Geelong and Melbourne are now the only Victorian clubs on track to play finals. The rest are already fucked. Three of the clubs most infected by hipster-leftism - Essendon, Richmond and Carlton, are in the bottom-four. And are already in sack-the-coach/delist cra layers/rebuild-and-overhaul mode.

(edit 06/06/2026: forget everything I just said about the Hawks above, they went down last night to the Bulldogs. It’s all over. Time for the eastern subrubs to focus on politics again. Maybe Brad Battin should indeed defect to One Nation and lead it, as the Sage and Venerable Steve Price advises in todays Herald Fun.)

But thats not all:

FIghting: MMA:

I went down to the Sphinx in Geelong a couple of weeks back to catch their telecast of UFC 328, which was headlined with Khamzat Chimaev vs Sean Strickland fighting for the middleweight belt, with a suporting flyweight title fight between Joshua Van and Tatsuro Taira.

This is the first time I’ve watched a live UFC fight in years and years. I think the last time I sat down to watch a live one in full in a bar setting was back when I was in Canada in 2008. George St Pierre won the headlining fight that day.

This time it was Strickland and Van who got up respectively. They were both entertaining enough gfights, with decent free movment and contact shots, and not too much pointless deadlocked gay-wrestling between two sweaty men on the floor, as can often plague MMA. I liked the attitude of the fighters involved in both bouts, though Taira seemed abit out of his depth. What drew me to make a point of watching this one was catching footage of the pre-fight weigh-in a couple of days before, where Chimaev provoked Strickland into an on-camera brawl. There seemed to be something culturally motivated about it all. Strickland’s a white American with a neo-nazi past and who, though he has disavowed it, maintains an opposition to Israel. Chimaev is a Chechen who fights under Russian nationality and who is based in Dubai. He’s got the classic terrorist beard while Strickland has the skinhead look…. BUT im SURE they are not active in any politics and any visual associations are purely incidental…. :)

Fencing:

I’ve gotten into the fighting mood myself now, also as a result of the current political climate in Victoria and the world, and so have entered into an upcoming sidesword HEMA tournament this weekend. I’ll post my results here, fully and transparently.

Last time I fought in the rapier tournament and was eliminated in the first round, losing two matches and drawing one…. against the chick. How embarassment. Admittedly she was a seasoned martial artist though.