Melbourne City FC Thread

dickie davies said:
Can someone summarise what actually happened
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From what I saw there was a protest due at 20 mins by both sets of fans due to the Grand Final being moved to Sydney.
And I thought the English FA were fuckwits.
Some flares came on which the City keeper threw to the side, the camera came off him but then something must have happened to aggravate the situation (?) as the crowd noise went up and next thing camera shows Victory fans on the pitch and something hit the City keeper and the ref, was difficult to see as happened so quickly.
Players taken off, match abandoned.
 
Newman Noggs said:
When the dust settles, I'll wager it will be "City's fault"
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Merseyside Poluce have already offered to help with any investigation.

Citys goal was superb and after a Victory chance early on were pasting them.

Hope City get awarded the points.
 
Shouldn’t of been abandoned or points should of gone to the winning team! Because if fans think they can cause a bit of ruckus to get a game abandoned it will happens again!
 
Now that was disappointing.

Tensions were high all week. The APL the new governing body of the League announced that they had signed a deal with NSW government to have the next 3 grand finals played in Sydney. Their logic was that it would then become a highly sought after event and other capitals would bid, similar to super bowl. What they overlooked is that only the competing teams fans playing in the final would be interested in going. Just a dumb idea that was universally bagged. From this the active groups from all the clubs announced they were all planning walk outs at 20 minutes which I still can't find the specific reason but anyway they were going to walk at 20 minutes.

From the start of the game many flares were ripped from both ends and especially when we scored. I haven't seen so many flares for a long time.

At 19 minutes the City active leaders were call for the walkout. The ref had stopped the game and a both groups began to exit. Several flares from the Victory end were thrown and City keeper Glover threw one back into the crowd.
At this point that triggered a storming of the pitch. Several ran at Glover and one moron grabbed a sand bucket and hit Glover with it.

Security and police surrounded players and was chaotic for a while. All the players left. Spectators removed from the field and both active terraces becam empty.

The rest of the crowd including yours truly had no idea whats was going on. We waited for atleast 30 minutes without knowing anything. Then at what would have been some City players came out without boot socks etc and it was obvious the game was off.
 
That bucket they threw at the goalie created that much dust you could hear the whole stadium react to it! Proper Australian that is!
 
Corky said:
What a set of babies the fans are. Chuck flares at the keeper, he throws it back and they are outraged.

Don't chuck flares then snowflakes. What is the keeper supposed to do, play on with a flare in front of goal?
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“The fans” aren’t a collective. The flare was clearly thrown by a complete bellend. If it’s thrown back into the stand there’s a pretty fair chance it could injury a complete innocent.

There were plenty of things the ‘keeper could have done that didn’t involve a high risk of injuring innocents.
 
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