This week, the man known as “God” by Liverpool fans, Robbie Fowler, landed in Townsville ahead of his surprisingly low-key entry into the A-League fray with North Queensland Fury. Something not lacking broad publicity is Australia’s World Cup bid, where the powers that be have submitted their official bid to FIFA this week.

Elsewhere, Harry Kewell is back in the Socceroos squad for the qualifier against Uzbekistan in Sydney on April 1 and a brace from Newcastle striker Sasho Petrovski has handed the Jets a valuable 2-0 win over Ulsan Hyundai in their ACL tie.

Trevor Treharne
Deputy Editor, FourFourTwo

PS : The April issue of FourFourTwo is on sale - or subscribe now. We speak to Tim Cahill about his finest ever domestic season at EPL club Everton, bushfire tributes, the 2010 World Cup and his South Coast FC A-League bid. We also speak to Fernando Torres about Liverpool’s title hopes, catch-up with Manchester United’s Dimitar Berbatov on his big money move, FourFourTwo’s Andy Jackson takes an FFA coaching course, we bid farewell to retiring Matildas legend Cheryl Salisbury and it is awards time as we hand out our end of season gongs.

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