The 26,795 in attendance was just short of a full house at Melbourne Rectangular Stadium but encouraging enough for governing body Football Australia ... Matildas take on Taiwan again at Kardinia ...

The quarterfinals of the 12-team college football playoff kick off New Year's Eve. The first-round survivors meet the top four seeds.

Matildas coach Tom Sermanni saw Australian women’s football in its formative years ... for selection for Saturday’s second game against Taiwan in Geelong - if she can pass concussion testing.

The prospects of Xi acting precipitously against Taiwan have increased as a result ... This is not unlike the predicament of the football or soccer player who retaliates against an egregious ...

As usual, most of Saturday’s action was centred around the football. We had dropped points from English Premier League title ...