December 17, 2022 News and Notes

• Soccer riot in Melbourne last night.  A protest over the awarding of the rights to host the A-League soccer finals the next three years to Sydney caused the Melbourne derby to be abandoned when both sets of fans rioted.
• Melbourne City goalkeeper Tom Glover was seriously injured when he was hit in the head with a sand bucket, meant to disperse flares, swung by a fan at Glover's head!!!  The referee also got a cut in the head from the same incident.
• It is the first time in the history of Australian soccer that a top-league match has had to be abandoned for a "fan ambush", as Sky Australia called it.
• "Football is for the fans", fuckers???  NOT IF YOU ACT LIKE THAT SHIT!!!   
• Serious implications in a massive first half of the first of the three NFL games today.  Saturday games start today with an NFL tripleheader.  With Christmas a week from tomorrow, the bulk of the league plays their games a week from today, the 24th.
• OH HOLY HELL!!  It got it's own post.
• Mickey Joseph has been fired from Nebraska for his domestic violence arrest.