Joey Lynch
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Journalist | Bylines: @ESPNAusNZ, @ESPNFC, @guardian, @OptusSport, @AAPSport | @TNCFootball | Former Board @CanteenAus & Youth Cancer Advocate | @ByJDLMedia
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined July 2016
For @ESPNAusNZ;. I sat down for conversation with Liam Hendriks. About cancer. On treatment, coping, and how it changes you. On podcasts, routine, and watching loved ones see you go through this. About being ‘inspirational’ and what exactly that means.
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Konstas escaping Sydney’s housing market by moving into rent free accommodation in Kohli’s head. #AUSvIND.
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@NickStoll Every single English player only being able to speak English is so deliciously on brand.
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Within seven days, Melbourne Rectangular Stadium has seen the World Cup careers of Christine Sinclair, Marta, and Meagan Rapinoe end on its turf. #FIFAWWC.
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I am livid. Anyone that abused Josh Cavallo -- anyone that would abuse anyone over their sexuality -- is scum. If you were amongst those that was hurling the abuse last night and you're reading this, fuck off. Australian football doesn't need you and it doesn't want you.
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Imagine your feelings as a Tunisian fan right now. Your nation has gone undefeated against Denmark and France in the group stages -- beating the latter -- and you're still going home.
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Melbourne's contribution to the #FIFAWWC will conclude with 159,422 fans having attended across its six games - an average of 26,570 per game. The Melbourne Rectangular Stadium's capacity for the World Cup was 27,706.
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Ten years ago ya boi was coming off a stem cell transplant & was just a few short months away from relapse, infection, and a being hours from death in the Alfred ICU. Last week, he treatment for the very same disease. Today, ya boi is off to cover his first World Cup for @ESPNFC
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No relegation, a salary cap, an uneven fixture, half the league makes finals, and now a reduction to the rewards for finishing first. Mediocrity is less a curse than a viable long-term strategy.
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Channel 7 announce that the #Matildas 2-0 win over #Den was the highest rating TV program of 2023. 6.54 million peak audience with an average of 3.56 million. These figures do not include those that watched on @OptusSport or at live sights, pubs, clubs, and community events.
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Just showed Jackson Irvine this video. First reaction: “Jesus Christ”. He absolutely loved it.
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Steph Catley and Caitlin Foord diagnosed Kyra with being "dramatic.".
Kyra Cooney-Cross is down on the feld receiving treatment. #AlAllStars.
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Australia should be proud of this team. They should be celebrated. These boys deserve it. #ARGAUS.
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You run out of superlatives. Ange Postecoglou is an immense coach. Seemingly able to find the right tone and forge a deep connection with any fanbase not because of heavily tailored but because he’s just being a genuine bloke. Mate.
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In one single twitter post, the United States has managed to turn an entire city to Team IKEA. That’s impressive. #FIFAWWC.
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Tom Rogic has announced his retirement from professional football on his Instagram account. Statement:
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Having just done the Europe > Australia flight it should never be understated just what kind of commitment the Socceroos and Matildas show to come home and play each window.
BREAKING: Jarrad Branthwaite will return to Everton's Finch Farm training ground after not travelling with the England squad to Greece 🚨. He becomes the 9th player to withdraw from Lee Carsley's England squad 🏴
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Yo dog, Imma let you finish - but Pele, Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone defeating the Nazis in a football match is the greatest football film of all time
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AFL GF = 3.38 million people .NRL GF = 3.03 million people . Australia v France = 3.4 million people. #JustSayin.
Which footy code's grand final drew the bigger TV audience?
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Melbourne Victory boss Tony Popovic on the A-Leagues Grand Final decision. Says that he and the club agree with fan sentiment surrounding the decision. Says that the club respects and understands if fans stage walkouts at the Melbourne Derby.
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Never had a mixed zone interview request rejected in a nicer manner than Son Heung-min. Unironically genuinely didn't feel mad at all he was so nice about it🥰.
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Postecoglou joined his local team at SMFC as a kid, developed a vision of football his dad would’ve wanted to watch and stayed true to it and himself. Now, we’re here. It’s disarmingly simple and romantic in a maddening world. He got here because his talent and effort earned it.
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Who has two thumbs and no cancer on his annual PET scan for the second year in a row?. This👍😎👍guy.
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To paraphrase what @samkerr1 just told media at Stadium Australia: Now fund them, and especially fund the next generation that will become #Matildas.
👏 @TheMatildas are an absolute inspiration. You’ve shown incredible skill, ferocity and flair, and a camaraderie that defines what it means to play team sport.
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On and off the field.
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The A-League has scrapped the grand final deal with Sydney. Traditional hosting format returning this season for men and women. A 'Unite Round' where all A-League Men and Women games are played in Sydney between Jan 12-14 replaces it from this season. Story in @ESPNAusNZ soon.
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An Australian coach is going to win a Premier League title before an English one does it lmao.
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Told that Tomoki Imai actually spent the night before the @aleaguemen grand final practising the Australian national anthem just so he would be able to sing it with his @wufcofficial teammates ahead of the game.
Tomoki Imai singing along to the national anthem 😭.
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Harper has completely taken over Katrina Gorry’s press conference. It’s great.
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Spoke with someone at @FootballAUS, who says that the federation will use the full force of its regulatory and disciplinary powers regarding tonight's incident. Witnesses are alreeady coming forward to help identify perpetrators. The phrase used was "enough is enough".
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Smugly watching the Opening Ceremony knowing full well that nothing the organisers do will be able to match The Veronicas performing Untouched in Brisbane in 2032.
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Every game live, free and available to all. As it should be.
You heard it here first! In 2026, football comes home. It’s the @FIFAWorldCup and it’s live, all in one place, on SBS ⚽
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Detectives from Victoria Police have arrived at AAMI Park and are inspecting the playing surface.
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Each member of the @TheMatildas is being presented with their @FIFAWWC jersey by a youngster named Matilda, flown in from around the country for today.
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After hearing talk, I asked #JAM coach Lorne Donaldson if any of his players might look to move to the @aleaguewomen next season following his side's #FIFAWWC loss to Colombia. “I would say, it’s a strong possibility. They see the environment in Australia and they like it. 1/2.
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Rebekah Stott looked up at Ferns’ training, saw a drone, and kickstarted a series of events that have led to Canadian football threatening to implode. Just absolutely wild.
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Some of the best bait I've ever seen. 👏.
Breaking: The MCG is set to permanently rebrand to the Naarm Cricket Ground (NCG) in 2026. @7AFL .@7NewsMelbourne.
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I'm watching on Paramount but I'm almost certain based on the call that viewers on Ten just missed a goal for an ad break. In an elimination final. That's a joke. #ADLvCCM.
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This is a gif now. I made a gif.
Tony G's reaction to a journo 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐦 amongst the Matildas celebrations is all-time 🤣. "I was ok" 😆. The full interview with @schwarzer_mark 📲 #OptusSport #FIFAWWC @isobelcootes
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Meet Alexia, the most popular member of the @Socceroos team in Doha. Operating the coffee machine as the team’s barista.
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The game's going to get abandoned. Victory fans are destroying the north end of the pitch. #MelbDerby.
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Biggest Australian blow against Serbia since Brett Holman in the 73rd minute at the Mbombela Stadium.
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It’s not hyperbolic to say that this is a genuinely devastating blow for Kerr, the Matildas and Australian football.
Our captain, @samkerr1 will be on the sidelines for an extended period after suffering a ruptured ACL. We're all behind you as you start your road to recovery, Sam 🫶.
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THEY’RE PLAYING UNTOUCHED AT THE AL JANOUB STADIUM. THIS IS THE BEST!. #TUNAUS #FIFAWorldCup.
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Reminder that if your first thought after one of the greatest games in Australian football history is to send harassing DMs to a certain teenager then you’re lame af.
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What if there’s a maritime emergency on the Yarra?.
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So the league fundamentally altered the way that ladder positioning is determined -- going against the global norm in doing so -- and seemingly told absolutely nobody, let alone provided an explanation.
Update from APL: . 1. The regulations are correct — wins is now the 2nd rank determinant (goal diff is now 3rd). 2. A-Leagues digital team are working to have their ladders reflect this. All that is to say that @WgtnPhoenixFC are currently top of the table in the @aleaguemen.
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I am once again begging those that are upset about a lack of media coverage of sokkah to try and consume and share the limited content that is being made by passionate, hard-working journalists alongside their focus on a lack of mainstream attention.
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Victory keeps their season alive with a huge 3-2 upset win over Melbourne City. Anyone tuning in expecting violence or trouble instead had to make do with an amazing atmosphere and one of the games of the season. #MelbDerby.
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Scott Jamieson stopping the City players from going down the tunnel so they can give Nikolai Topor-Stanley a guard of honour after his 350th @aleaguemen game. Great stuff.
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Again.
You couldn't script it. For the third year in a row, we've been drawn against @WgtnPhoenixFC in the @AustraliaCup!. #AustraliaCup | #MagicOfTheCup
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Australian football is now making headlines around the world for what has happened tonight. You can't claim that the BBC and organisations of that ilk have a bias against football. There are no scapegoats outside the tent for this.
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What dickhead thought the Socceroos should play at 5pm Kuwait time (1am AEDT) on a school night?.
The kick-off times for our second qualifier. 📰 How to watch: 🇵🇸 v 🇦🇺 - 22.11.23 - 1:00am AEDT. #PLEvAUS #Socceroos
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Coming off the back of the #FIFAWWC final, the A-League Men and A-League Women competitions will both release their fixtures this week.
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This game will be mythologised, adding to the legend of the Never Say Die™️, Til It’s Done™️ Matildas. And yes, winning 6-5 is absolutely better than the alternative. The players fought. But even better is not going down 5-2 at all. Chaos, vibes and inshallah™️. #AUSvZAM.
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Victoria Police Statement: . "Victoria Police is disappointed with the behaviour of some supporters at Saturday nights A-League men’s game between Melbourne City and Melbourne Victory in Melbourne. The match was abandoned after approximately 150-200 Melbourne. .
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FIFA Release: "The FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 is on track to become the most attended standalone women’s sporting event in history, with over 1 million tickets now sold for next month’s highly anticipated tournament.". 1,032,884 tickets are now sold.
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Just over 24 hours out, and the word is about 20k tickets sold for tomorrow night’s @aleaguemen grand final between @MelbourneCity and @wufcofficial.
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Irvine: "It's hard to even. I wish I was there as well. I wish I could do both. That just looks absolutely incredible. I hope every single one of them has had a night they'll remember for the rest of their lives - like I've had as a fan. It's special.".
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What a month for Craig Goodwin. Becomes one of the #Socceroos heroes at the World Cup and is now the most outspoken player against the A-Leagues’ Grand Final decision. Good luck winning a PR war against him right now.
#Exclusive: @AdelaideUnited and @Socceroos winger @craig_goodwin11 has reiterated he does not support the APL's decision to hold the next three A-Leagues Grand Finals in Sydney, telling 10 News First it will lead to a "bunch of neutrals in the stands" | @10FootballAU
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If you have a pet please give them a hug. I said goodbye to my best mate tonight. He'd been with my family and I through every bump of the past twelve years and we the best dog you could ever ask for.
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Two from two in A-Liga games this weekend. Lot of ALM and ALW to come.
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Victory fans are chanting "You've got school in the morning" at Nestory Irankunda as he warms up in front of them. Rate it. #MVCvADL.
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Scenes when the Aussie skeet shooter steps up and hits every target at 3 am local time.
We'll stream the Olympics (and Matildas games) free on the big screen at Fed Square.
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25,884 is the crowd at the #MelbDerby; the first time the Derby has broken the 25k mark at AAMI Park since 2016.
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Sympathies to all the foreigners that started following Australian sokkah accounts during the World Cup and now have no idea why their timeline got so angry all of a sudden.
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There are football journalists who have been critiquing both the loss and this team for a while now. Yes, we actually exist. I'm as shocked as you. The problem is a mainstream that jumps on board for World Cups has ignored football for so long, they have no idea where to look.
"I think we've been a bit soft (on the Matildas). I think if this was the men's side, we would be going extremely hard on the errors (against England) and the ease in which we conceded those two goals.". - @kanecornes.
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I choose to believe the Optus Sport tweet pushed Giroud over the edge.
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🎙️ "Pure Aussie joy!" . Mathew Leckie's solo effort fired the @Socceroos into the #FIFAWorldCup knockouts, #OTD in 2022! 🇦🇺.
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If I held the rights to show the Hearts game against St Mirren here in Australia, I would simply put it on the air so that people could watch the five World Cup Sokkahroos playing in it.
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As part of our chat, I asked Liam about the exploits of Shohei Ohtani. Not only did he confirm that Shohei is definitely not a "dick", he also made my day by revealing that both himself and Shohei are DBZ fans.
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10 Football uploading the video of the Garuccio goal 40 minutes and 50k views after @TheRealALM got it up. Snooze you lose on the internets.
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If Mile Jedinak looked at me like that I’d reassess every life decision I’d ever made.
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With a population smaller than Melbourne or Sydney, Croatia are heading to back to back semifinals at a #FIFAWorldCup. What this country is able to achieve in football is remarkable. Football culture. #CROBRA.
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In @ESPNAusNZ;. #Socceroos players will donate a portion of their match fees from their World Cup qualifier with Palestine to Oxfam’s aid efforts in Gaza, Jackson Irvine telling @AnnaHarrington and I the ongoing conflict in the region is “unfathomable”.
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There’s a level of joy inherent in this clip, because that’s what’s being captured. It’s not slickly produced nor selling something. What’s happening isn’t in pursuit of any kind of greater purpose . It’s kids playing football. One of their heroes joins them. Because it’s fun.
WHOLESOME CONTENT ALERT 😍. Just @alexchidiac10 joining in a small-sided half-time match at last night’s @TheMatildas clash 💚💛. #MiniRoos #MiniTillies #Matildas
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