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Sam Lewis (she/they) 🌈
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Australian women’s football writer, speaker, host, advocate ⚽️
yapping on @thefarpostpod.bsky.social 🎙️
want to chat? sclewis1992@gmail.com 📧
the Wanderers beating Sydney FC in a women’s derby for the first time in over 2,000 days. we really are in the end times. #ALeagueWomen
a cartoon character holding a sign that says the end is near
ALT: a cartoon character holding a sign that says the end is near
media.tenor.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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Politics is about choices.

This government is choosing to spend more on tax breaks for landlords than on social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined.

While you're getting smashed by unlimited rent increases and massive mortgage repayments.
January 30, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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exclusive: the AFC won't increase prize money for this year's Women's Asian Cup despite repeated pleas from players. a public campaign is being planned calling attention to what is now the lowest-paying major women's tournament in the world.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
No increase in Women’s Asian Cup prize money despite player pleas for ‘respect’
Exclusive: Prize money at the upcoming tournament in Australia will not increase from what was offered by the AFC at the last edition four years ago
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:07 AM
exclusive: the AFC won't increase prize money for this year's Women's Asian Cup despite repeated pleas from players. a public campaign is being planned calling attention to what is now the lowest-paying major women's tournament in the world.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
No increase in Women’s Asian Cup prize money despite player pleas for ‘respect’
Exclusive: Prize money at the upcoming tournament in Australia will not increase from what was offered by the AFC at the last edition four years ago
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:07 AM
I had a crack at predicting the #Matildas 26-player squad for the 2026 #AFCWAC, due to be announced next month.

how close did I get? are there any glaring omissions or silly inclusions?

football360.com.au/matildas-202...
Predicting the Matildas’ 2026 Women’s Asian Cup squad and Joe Montemurro's first XI
Women's football journalist SAMANTHA LEWIS casts her eye over the Matildas squad as the countdown to selection time heats up.
football360.com.au
January 29, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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Layoffs over the last year:

UPS: 48,000
Amazon: 32000
Intel: 27,159
Microsoft: 15,387
Nestle: 16000
Verizon: 15000
Google: 12000
Chevron: 8000
Paramount: 7000
Walmart: 7000
P&G: 7000
Estée Lauder: 7000

Your reminder that massive corporate tax cuts don’t create jobs, they create profits.
January 29, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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inside.fifa.com/transfer-sys...

FIFA transfer data are out for 2025 and some notable takeaways on the women’s side: global growth of 83% over 2024 and Australia again got 1% of the global pie.
a man with glasses says boy do i hate being right all the time
ALT: a man with glasses says boy do i hate being right all the time
media.tenor.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:29 AM
more than a few #ALeagueWomen players who played under Rado at Melbourne City have said he was one of the best and kindest coaches they’ve ever had. what a terrible loss for our game. I hope he knew how grateful we all were for him.
Dario Vidošić has posted on Instagram that his father Rado Vidošić has passed away after a battle with cancer.
Rado's impact on Australian football is difficult to sum up in a tweet, but his greatest contribution to football might be being one of the nicest people in the game.
January 27, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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Removing US as World Cup host would be eminently sad – and entirely justified | Alexander Abnos
Removing US as World Cup host would be eminently sad – and entirely justified | Alexander Abnos
A country where safety is under threat from federal violence on the streets is not fit to stage soccer’s showpiece event Removing the United States as co-host of the 2026 World Cup would hurt for pretty much everyone. Fans would miss out on seeing the sport’s pinnacle in their home towns (or somewhere nearby). Cities and businesses small and large would lose the financial benefits they had banked on. It would be a logistical and political nightmare on an international scale, the likes of which have never been seen before in sports. It would be eminently sad. And it would be entirely justified. It brings me no pleasure to say this. The United States has been eager to host a men’s World Cup for more than a decade and a half. The desire survived and even grew after 2010’s failure to out-bid Russia and Qatar (in public and behind closed doors) for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. With hosting rights for 2026 later secured alongside Canada and Mexico, the US soccer scene prepared to show off that the sport is now part of the nation’s fabric, 32 years after hosting the tournament for the first time in 1994. Soccer’s growing popularity in America has helped inspire other US sports to try new formats, encouraged us to engage more fully with the world in a sporting context, and has been at the center of conversations about our society and culture. The 2026 World Cup was seen as the best chance for the world to fully experience not just how much the US has improved at soccer, but how much soccer has improved the US. Continue reading...
dlvr.it
January 27, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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NEW: Reflections on a soccer Saturday, from a state under siege by the FIFA Peace Prize winner. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
A Saturday and a state killing: soccer as Minnesota is torn apart | Jeff Rueter
On the whims of Fifa’s Peace Prize winner, a life usually so focused on sports has found anything but peace
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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Not that Fifa will do it, but Federal agents repeatedly killing innocent people in the streets in broad daylight with multiple witnesses and without accountability seems like a justifiable a reason to have World Cup hosting duties taken away.
January 24, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
bit.ly
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 PM
sitting down with Chloe Berryhill a few years ago for this story on LGBTQIA+ Pride is still one of my favourite interviews (and headlines). she’s been through so much yet still gave all of herself to football, it’s heartbreaking to see her career end so swiftly.

www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02...
'We're tough bitches': Matilda Chloe Logarzo wants to leave a different kind of football legacy
After taking time away from football to discover herself, the Matilda is now a Rainbow Ambassador for Sydney WorldPride and an advocate for LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sport.
www.abc.net.au
January 24, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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In this edition of The Far Post Explains, we discuss Naara and the role of mascots in sport with Sarah Walsh and Dr Kasey Symons.

Tune in @espnaustralia.bsky.social and the usual pod spots.

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January 21, 2026 at 5:28 AM
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Losing FBref is going to only further hamper independent soccer media (and industry media too!) because no one can afford a Wyscout or StatsBomb account on a newsletter/blog/podcast salary.
January 20, 2026 at 10:23 PM
this is awful, especially for those of us working in the women’s football space for whom access to historical individual and team data has been almost impossible as orgs haven’t cared enough to make it publicly available. telling stories and verifying information just got harder.
Down with this sort of thing 👎
January 21, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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On the subject of World Cup boycotts, this is a story which ought to be much better known: why African countries decided not to compete for a place at the 1966 tournament. One of Fifa's most shameful moments, which hardly ever gets a mention.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-a...
How Africa boycotted the 1966 World Cup
The BBC's Piers Edwards explains the little-known story behind the African boycott to the 1966 World Cup, the only World Cup in history to have been snubbed by an entire continent.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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last year, I was introduced to a mysterious American man who wanted to know more about the #ALeagueWomen and women's football in Australia.

as it turns out, he represented an overseas consortium looking to expand their portfolio here.

so what happened next?

football360.com.au/my-encounter...
My encounter with a mysterious man in a fleece coat and its lessons about women's football investment
What needs to change so that women's club football in Australia can fly, asks SAMANTHA LEWIS.
football360.com.au
January 19, 2026 at 11:28 PM
last year, I was introduced to a mysterious American man who wanted to know more about the #ALeagueWomen and women's football in Australia.

as it turns out, he represented an overseas consortium looking to expand their portfolio here.

so what happened next?

football360.com.au/my-encounter...
My encounter with a mysterious man in a fleece coat and its lessons about women's football investment
What needs to change so that women's club football in Australia can fly, asks SAMANTHA LEWIS.
football360.com.au
January 19, 2026 at 11:28 PM
FIFA can’t even be bothered trying to hide their corruption these days hey
January 12, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM