Media Career
Slater wrote an autobiographical book in the late nineties called The Hard Way on his playing career. Slater is now an analyst and commentator for Australian Pay-TV channel Fox Sports, commentating matches in the A-League, while also appearing on Fox Sports FC and Matchday Saturday, which are both weekly football coverage shows.
Slater was involved in a controversy after writing an article for the Daily Telegraph, concerning an incident with Harry Kewell. The article led to a live confrontation on Fox Sports FC. Graham Arnold was named as source in row between Harry Kewell and Robbie Slater Slater was involved in a controversy with former Socceroo Craig Foster, who Slater accused of having a bias towards English people.
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