Football Federation Australia (FFA) Chairman, Frank Lowy AC, said today that FFA could now "dare to dream" as he welcomed the Australian Government's $45.6 million in support for FFA's bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

"Hosting the World Cup would bring unprecedented benefit to Australia, to the Asian region and to football," said Mr Lowy.

KUALA LUMPUR: The race to be an assistant referee at the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa is down to 15 potential candidates following a Seminar in Singapore that ended on Sunday.

New Zealand referee Peter O'Leary got more than he bargained for when officiated the second half of an English Premier League match.

He attended the match between Aston Villa and Sunderland in Birmingham as a guest of top English referee Steve Bennett.

O'Leary had planned to soak up the action and watch the performance of the officials but such intentions unravelled when assistant referee Alan Williams was injured.

FNSW President Jim Forrest responds to recent criticism of the organisation by a journalist in the Sun Herald

Most of us believed that with the advent of Frank Lowy and Football Federation Australia we'd be rid of Old Football and its politics of envy, malice and negativity.