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Emma Kemp

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Alpha move: Arsenal’s Eze heist heaps humiliation on Spurs

Alpha move: Arsenal’s Eze heist heaps humiliation on Spurs

The Gunners’ swoop to sign their rivals’ No.1 target from under their noses strengthens their Premier League title push and leaves Tottenham back...

22.08.2025 6

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Alpha move: Arsenal’s Eze heist heaps humiliation on Spurs

Alpha move: Arsenal’s Eze heist heaps humiliation on Spurs

The Gunners’ swoop to sign their rivals’ No.1 target from under their noses strengthens their Premier League title push and leaves Tottenham back...

22.08.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Alpha move: Arsenal’s Eze heist heaps humiliation on Spurs

Alpha move: Arsenal’s Eze heist heaps humiliation on Spurs

The Gunners’ swoop to sign their rivals’ No.1 target from under their noses strengthens their Premier League title push and leaves Tottenham back...

22.08.2025 8

The Age

Emma Kemp

Alpha move: Arsenal’s Eze heist heaps humiliation on Spurs

Alpha move: Arsenal’s Eze heist heaps humiliation on Spurs

The Gunners’ swoop to sign their rivals’ No.1 target from under their noses strengthens their Premier League title push and leaves Tottenham back...

22.08.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

The trophy in Trump’s Oval Office is everything that’s wrong with world soccer

The trophy in Trump’s Oval Office is everything that’s wrong with world soccer

The actual football was pretty good, but this year’s tournament proved Gianni Infantino’s relentless expansionism fails to recognise the law of...

21.08.2025 2

WA Today

Emma Kemp

The trophy in Trump’s Oval Office is everything that’s wrong with world soccer

The trophy in Trump’s Oval Office is everything that’s wrong with world soccer

The actual football was pretty good, but this year’s tournament proved Gianni Infantino’s relentless expansionism fails to recognise the law of...

21.08.2025 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

The trophy in Trump’s Oval Office is everything that’s wrong with world soccer

The trophy in Trump’s Oval Office is everything that’s wrong with world soccer

The actual football was pretty good, but this year’s tournament proved Gianni Infantino’s relentless expansionism fails to recognise the law of...

21.08.2025 1

The Age

Emma Kemp

The trophy in Trump’s Oval Office is everything that’s wrong with world soccer

The trophy in Trump’s Oval Office is everything that’s wrong with world soccer

The actual football was pretty good, but this year’s tournament proved Gianni Infantino’s relentless expansionism fails to recognise the law of...

21.08.2025 1

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Maradona, Mourinho … and the Panthers trainer. Welcome to sporting skulduggery

Maradona, Mourinho … and the Panthers trainer. Welcome to sporting skulduggery

The Corey Bocking incident, honest mistake or not, reminds us of the grey area between accident and cheating, and what sits in between.

04.08.2025 5

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Maradona, Mourinho … and the Panthers trainer. Welcome to sporting skulduggery

Maradona, Mourinho … and the Panthers trainer. Welcome to sporting skulduggery

The Corey Bocking incident, honest mistake or not, reminds us of the grey area between accident and cheating, and what sits in between.

04.08.2025 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Maradona, Mourinho … and the Panthers trainer. Welcome to sporting skulduggery

Maradona, Mourinho … and the Panthers trainer. Welcome to sporting skulduggery

The Corey Bocking incident, honest mistake or not, reminds us of the grey area between accident and cheating, and what sits in between.

04.08.2025 5

The Age

Emma Kemp

Maradona, Mourinho … and the Panthers trainer. Welcome to sporting skulduggery

Maradona, Mourinho … and the Panthers trainer. Welcome to sporting skulduggery

The Corey Bocking incident, honest mistake or not, reminds us of the grey area between accident and cheating, and what sits in between.

04.08.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Handshakegate proves hypocrisy is the bedrock of great Test cricket

India’s tour of India had everyone reaching for their moral compass, and it sets up a terrifically tense Ashes series in Australia from November.

03.08.2025 10

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Handshakegate proves hypocrisy is the bedrock of great Test cricket

India’s tour of India had everyone reaching for their moral compass, and it sets up a terrifically tense Ashes series in Australia from November.

03.08.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Handshakegate proves hypocrisy is the bedrock of great Test cricket

India’s tour of India had everyone reaching for their moral compass, and it sets up a terrifically tense Ashes series in Australia from November.

03.08.2025 9

The Age

Emma Kemp

Handshakegate proves hypocrisy is the bedrock of great Test cricket

India’s tour of India had everyone reaching for their moral compass, and it sets up a terrifically tense Ashes series in Australia from November.

03.08.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Why Saudi oil may just meet its match in booming power of women’s football

Mohammed bin Salman has never been that big a football fan. That is more speculation than confirmed truth, based on a lack of hard evidence to...

23.10.2024 2

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Why Saudi oil may just meet its match in booming power of women’s football

Mohammed bin Salman has never been that big a football fan. That is more speculation than confirmed truth, based on a lack of hard evidence to...

23.10.2024 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Why Saudi oil may just meet its match in booming power of women’s football

Mohammed bin Salman has never been that big a football fan. That is more speculation than confirmed truth, based on a lack of hard evidence to...

23.10.2024 3

The Age

Emma Kemp

Why Saudi oil may just meet its match in booming power of women’s football

Mohammed bin Salman has never been that big a football fan. That is more speculation than confirmed truth, based on a lack of hard evidence to...

23.10.2024 5

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Why ugly is beautiful for the Socceroos

Amazing what a difference two games can make. Tuesday night’s 1-1 draw against benchmark nation Japan in Saitama, combined with last Thursday’s 3-1...

16.10.2024 2

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Why ugly is beautiful for the Socceroos

Amazing what a difference two games can make. Tuesday night’s 1-1 draw against benchmark nation Japan in Saitama, combined with last Thursday’s 3-1...

16.10.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Why ugly is beautiful for the Socceroos

Amazing what a difference two games can make. Tuesday night’s 1-1 draw against benchmark nation Japan in Saitama, combined with last Thursday’s 3-1...

16.10.2024 10

The Age

Emma Kemp

Why ugly is beautiful for the Socceroos

Amazing what a difference two games can make. Tuesday night’s 1-1 draw against benchmark nation Japan in Saitama, combined with last Thursday’s 3-1...

16.10.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Man of influence: Cummins mixing cricket chat with fashion scene

It has probably been a while since Pat Cummins was last asked who he was wearing. “Who’s your shirt by?” asked one of the designer set congregated...

14.10.2024 2

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Man of influence: Cummins mixing cricket chat with fashion scene

It has probably been a while since Pat Cummins was last asked who he was wearing. “Who’s your shirt by?” asked one of the designer set congregated...

14.10.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Man of influence: Cummins mixing cricket chat with fashion scene

It has probably been a while since Pat Cummins was last asked who he was wearing. “Who’s your shirt by?” asked one of the designer set congregated...

14.10.2024 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Man of influence: Cummins mixing cricket chat with fashion scene

It has probably been a while since Pat Cummins was last asked who he was wearing. “Who’s your shirt by?” asked one of the designer set congregated...

14.10.2024 2

The Age

Emma Kemp

Inside Penrith’s Matrix, Nathan Cleary is in total control

Craig Fitzgibbon said a couple of things after the match that he already knew well before it. “They’re a team in the middle of a dynasty, and...

29.09.2024 3

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Inside Penrith’s Matrix, Nathan Cleary is in total control

Craig Fitzgibbon said a couple of things after the match that he already knew well before it. “They’re a team in the middle of a dynasty, and...

29.09.2024 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Inside Penrith’s Matrix, Nathan Cleary is in total control

Craig Fitzgibbon said a couple of things after the match that he already knew well before it. “They’re a team in the middle of a dynasty, and...

29.09.2024 3

The Age

Emma Kemp

Inside Penrith’s Matrix, Nathan Cleary is in total control

Craig Fitzgibbon said a couple of things after the match that he already knew well before it. “They’re a team in the middle of a dynasty, and...

29.09.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Socceroos players may be anxious about Popovic, and that’s a good thing

During the course of his 33-minute unveiling press conference, there was only one moment Tony Popovic bristled. It occurred when a journalist...

24.09.2024 10

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Socceroos players may be anxious about Popovic, and that’s a good thing

During the course of his 33-minute unveiling press conference, there was only one moment Tony Popovic bristled. It occurred when a journalist...

24.09.2024 6

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Socceroos players may be anxious about Popovic, and that’s a good thing

During the course of his 33-minute unveiling press conference, there was only one moment Tony Popovic bristled. It occurred when a journalist...

24.09.2024 1

The Age

Emma Kemp

Socceroos players may be anxious about Popovic, and that’s a good thing

During the course of his 33-minute unveiling press conference, there was only one moment Tony Popovic bristled. It occurred when a journalist...

24.09.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

On a day of hate and baseball bats, Sea Eagles soar

The fight was in the air before it even began. Two plumes of machine-made mist shot up above the field, clouds of maroon and blue coming together...

15.09.2024 1

WA Today

Emma Kemp

On a day of hate and baseball bats, Sea Eagles soar

The fight was in the air before it even began. Two plumes of machine-made mist shot up above the field, clouds of maroon and blue coming together...

15.09.2024 1

The Age

Emma Kemp

On a day of hate and baseball bats, Sea Eagles soar

The fight was in the air before it even began. Two plumes of machine-made mist shot up above the field, clouds of maroon and blue coming together...

15.09.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

On a day of hate and baseball bats, Sea Eagles soar

The fight was in the air before it even began. Two plumes of machine-made mist shot up above the field, clouds of maroon and blue coming together...

15.09.2024 6

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Mic drop: Why we need Nick Kyrgios off our TV screens

Australians were treated this week to Hollywood Nick Kyrgios. Any follower of the US Open’s social media accounts would have been served up videos...

13.09.2024 2

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Mic drop: Why we need Nick Kyrgios off our TV screens

Australians were treated this week to Hollywood Nick Kyrgios. Any follower of the US Open’s social media accounts would have been served up videos...

13.09.2024 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Mic drop: Why we need Nick Kyrgios off our TV screens

Australians were treated this week to Hollywood Nick Kyrgios. Any follower of the US Open’s social media accounts would have been served up videos...

13.09.2024 30

The Age

Emma Kemp

Mic drop: Why we need Nick Kyrgios off our TV screens

Australians were treated this week to Hollywood Nick Kyrgios. Any follower of the US Open’s social media accounts would have been served up videos...

13.09.2024 1

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

Socceroos doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

At first glance, you cannot fault the effort. In many ways, it was hotly contested and showed promise under trying circumstances and a growing body...

11.09.2024 2

WA Today

Emma Kemp

Socceroos doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

At first glance, you cannot fault the effort. In many ways, it was hotly contested and showed promise under trying circumstances and a growing body...

11.09.2024 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Emma Kemp

Socceroos doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

At first glance, you cannot fault the effort. In many ways, it was hotly contested and showed promise under trying circumstances and a growing body...

11.09.2024 3

The Age

Emma Kemp

Socceroos doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

At first glance, you cannot fault the effort. In many ways, it was hotly contested and showed promise under trying circumstances and a growing body...

11.09.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Emma Kemp

The embarrassment of Tokyo triggered a post-mortem. The rebirth was glorious

The last Olympics ended in snapped-handlebars ignominy and a post-mortem into Australia’s worst Olympic track cycling performance since 1980. The...

11.08.2024 1

WA Today

Emma Kemp

The embarrassment of Tokyo triggered a post-mortem. The rebirth was glorious

The last Olympics ended in snapped-handlebars ignominy and a post-mortem into Australia’s worst Olympic track cycling performance since 1980. The...

11.08.2024 2

The Age

Emma Kemp