Hillsborough Football disaster.

Ninety six Liverpool supporters died and 200 were injured in the worst disaster in British sports history in a crowd crush at the start of the Reds FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Sheffield. Most were trapped at the perimeter fencing at the Leppings lane end during the opening minutes of the game. The match was abandoned without score after six minutes of play.

If you read the local newspapers you would think it was all doom and gloom in Western Australian sport, but believe it or not its not! Our athletes continue to do amazing things and as is our goal we will try and bring the positive stories to you tonight.

* The Smokefree Thundersticks upset the form books by winning the Australian Hockey League for the second year in succession and tonight we will catch up with one of the championship winning team.

* Liz Chekovitch the WAIS gymnastics coach will be joining us to bring us up to speed with her charges.

* Despite losing their opening two games in the ANZ Championship the West Coast Fever are fired up for thier first home game of the season, and Johannah Curran will join us to tell us how they are going to win on the weekend.

* Pole Vaulter Amanda Bisk has been selected for the University games and she will join us to talk about how important these games are as part of her development.

* Perth will play host to the ISAF World Sailing Championships in 2011 and sailing legend and event director John Longley will join us to tell us what to expect and what it means to Western Australia to host such an event.

* A new Ice rink will open in Perth next week, and we will talk to one of the owners to find out what impact this could have on the Ice Hockey community and any aspiring winter Olympians.

* The European Champions league is at a very interesting stage, so we thought we would catch up with a former winner, German Bernd Wehmeyer who won the title with Hamburg.

So do tune in tonight to 990am from 6pm to listen to the show.

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Season two of the ANZ Netball Championship started last week. It was great to see the Trans Tasman league and fantastic to see what is the number one women’s sport receiving live television coverage. One issue was the fixturing last year and this has not been fixed in season two, with Australian teams playing each other twice and their New Zealand counterparts only once, and vice versa. Hopefully season three will see this glitch sorted out when the league is on strong financial footing

Another good reason to watch the Emirates Western Force take on the Hurricanes at 5.30pm WST on Friday 10 April is that it will be the only pace in Perth apart from the airport where you will be able to buy a beer! Being Good Friday everywhere will be shut, so for Rugby fans it really will be good Friday and even better with a Force win!

This is a video clip of me presenting for Fox Sports at an A-league match in Perth. I always wear a STFC button or badge and interestingly enough the producers indulge me.

Another week passes and another show for sports fans is ready to go air.

Tonight we will talk SAQ with Alan Pearson. Not sure what SAQ is? Well tune in and find out, all we will say is the England Rugby team used it when they won the World Cup, Bayern Munich use it as do the England Special Olympics team. If you are serious about your sport maybe you should.

Last week we could not wake Floorball’s Peter Harris from his jet-lagged sleep, so to talk about the Asia Pacific Championships we will catch up with Anthony Boteler.

Now the Victorians lay claim to the sport that we don’t mention, and to be honest who cares? But they are the only place that the sport of Trugo is played. This sport was dealt a blow last week, and so we will catch up with President of the Victorian Trugo Association Andrew MacMillan.

The Emirates Western Force kept their slim finals hopes alive with a good win over the Reds and we will be talking to one of their number leading up to this weekend’s clash with the Hurricanes.

We will feature motorcycling this week for the first time and will talk to Mandy Beales a woman excelling in what has tended to be a man’s world.

Susan Fuhrmann from the West Coast Fever will be joining us to give us the low down on round one and how they plan to bounce back this week.

The National Hockey League has come to an end for the Smokefree Diamonds but the Smokefree Thundersticks are still chasing back to back titles. Jayde Taylor will join us from Tasmania to bring us up to date on both teams performances.

Steve Hooker must be glad he was born in Australia, a country that in the main looks after it talented athletes after his French pole vaulting colleague Romain Mesnil was forced to run naked through the streets of Paris to try and attract sponsorship. Looking at the video it looked none too warm, so may not have given him quite the exposure he had hoped!

So Perth Glory coach Dave Mitchell and Vice Chairman Lui Giuliani have been refused entry into the Birmingham City Directors box on their scouting trip to the UK at the end of this week, due to Birmingham City’s hierarchy accusing Mitchell of making an illegal approach to striker Kevin Phillips. Surely this is a complete overreaction, as if they read the quotes from Mitchell they would see that he was quoted by reputable sections of the media as “not” having spoken to Phillips, his agent or Birmingham City, but that he would like to sign a player such as Phillips. Good to see one Blues fan on one of the UK websites state he cannot see the problem as Birmingham have themselves talked about players they want long before official approaches have been made. Whatever your view great publicity for the A league and Perth Glory.