There's an Albanian called Agim who works at General Pants at Miranda Westfield ;)

as all the boys say DEATH TO THE A-LEAGUE

#-o A 2-Week ban is obviously not enough for you; but i daresay you'll be back on again before the end of the week under a differant multi.....#3476

IP ban perhaps??

Thanks boys (I think!!) But Rigas, let me tell you something,I stopped watching Marconi about 10 years ago(well before the A league) because i was tired of all the bullshit that was going on at the Old NSL, then I went back to football because the A league promised to be something fresh and different; now after 5 seasons I can see that football is still managed by people with nothing but self interest in mind.

Marconi have close to the worst crowds in the league. Hardly surprising since they probably had the worst crowds of all the Sydney NSL clubs in their last few years

It's cool though that Manly and Sutherland get better crowds then Marconi. Marconi and Blacktown are the two clubs with the worse support. Imagine when they play each other in front of less then 100 people....

Two sides of the story, Marconi should have strong support from the Italian community seeing as they are one of Australias most successful Clubs, however, the Italian community in Fairfield is pretty much non existent now with most Italians now living in the inner-west, especially in Leichardt, Five Dock, Haberfield and Lilyfield. Yet APIA aren't as well supported as they should be. So in effect, Italians are shit cunts.

NNSW NBN State League FTW.

Rubbish... still plenty of Italians in the area.

Fact is that 99.99% of them dont give a fuck.

I look at comments on FB and everyone around Fairfield (ie. the neutrals) pretend that they have some kind of support for Marconi but none of them actually go to games

italians in Australia are by far the worst supporters you will ever see, considering there population, and love for the game… I mean take a look at the world cup in 2006 when italy won it, they all came out of the woodworks and Norton st was packed… I just don’t think they will ever have the same love, or even care for Marconi, which is quite sad really, because they should be up there with the cros and greeks when it comes to supporting your team in this country.

Yeah but at the same token, Italians are the most assimilated out of all the wogs, majority can not even speak Italian, while most ex-Yugos and Greeks are proficient in there languages.

Well, I don't write very often in this forums,and I guess you are all much younger than me, but let me tell you something; when I came to this country, I based my family in Fairfield and started supporting Marconi because it was the local football team, not because it was italian croatian or greek.
That was also the reason I started watching football in the A league,because I wanted to see flags that represented the club I was following, and not the country of my parents or grandparents.In the A league, the chanting in the terraces is about football and that's how it sould be.

That's fair enough. But now that the "traditional" clubs are in the State Leagues most have come to realise that the only ones who care enough to continue supporting them are those who feel the cultural link.

Shame to see such clubs fall into decay like this. Thank God for there social club.