Just like to add that I was at the game and I am a South Melbourne supporter - I agree that things have been blown out of proportion. The clowns that jumped the fence were out of order and it could have been excused as over-the-top celebration of a very late goal... HOWEVER
the second those nuggets ran beyond the edge of the pitch, they were out of line. When they ran all the way to the far side of the goal, acted aggressively toward a player, then refused to leave the pitch, it went beyond anything closely resembling acceptable and became disgusting.

Behind the goal we all knew that the club was in trouble as a result of these dickheads - what made it worse was that they continued to attempt to justify their actions well after the incident, even as they were having their memberships cancelled and they were being escorted from the ground.

I said at the time that we'd have the game taken from us, and the club expected a fine, and frankly - we can have no argument with the decision.

And I agree wholeheartedly with Arthur that these pricks should be criminally charged, or at the very least sued by the club in civil court to cover the costs of the fine. If they were real supporters, of course, they wouldn't need to be sued, they'd bloody volunteer to pay the back the fine.

Who wonders why there is a mentality of "us vs them" dickhead?

Imbeciles like you are the shit-stirrers who are spreading these rumors.

Why blame the NSL if fucking greeks can't get on with fucking greeks?

Who's blaming the NSL you opportunistic dickhead?

The National Soccer League is not to be blamed if people of the same fucking race can't get on and cause a game to be abandoned.

It's morons like you who promote this hatred between new and old fans and should be condemned because this hatred doesn't exist.

We are all football fans and we all love football and it doesn't matter where we came from or what fucking team we followed before the A-League.

We're all in this together.

Fuck off you divisive prick.

Edited by a.league.addict: 23/4/2010 10:24:24 PM

Why is it then that people who never followed the NSL have to always spurt crap like "good riddance the NSL was shit anyway" or "Fucking Greeks that's why SMFC will never be in the A-League". Then of course fans of the NSL as well shouldn't bag the A-League at every turn. There ius shit being flung from both sides and as a supporter of a club from the NSL and a supporter of a future A-League club I'm sick of it. It needs to stop on both sides. People need to stop branding and ethnic supporters as lunatics whenever they get the chance and stop painting every NSL supporter with the same brush. The NSL had it's fair share of problems but so does the A-League.

So I'm a divisive prick who can support both my old NSL club and the A-League as well.



Edited by sydneycroatia58: 23/4/2010 10:32:25 PM

hello all...

What the diffence between the NSL league and the current A league?

NSL League.....passion....better soccer....better players than today.

A League.......no passion...soccer is shit....players are worse than what it was in the old days.

Anyhow...the point is....DOnt compare NSL with A League....you cant!

sydfan has spoken...

Oh you mean the good old days?

#-o

Sorry sydfan. You are talking out of your arse...Went to Hundreds of NSL games watching West Adelaide and Adealide City. Tight from the start with crowds 11 - 10 000 and gradually saw them fall to 2 - 3000. The passion faded. The good games were great but too many were shit with too many average players filling the void of teams out of the four.
You talk of Passion??!! The only passion i saw was not about soccer/football rather ethnic conflict Serb/Croat, Greek/Macedonian, Greek/Italian ... etc..The Hungarians, Maltese, Dutch and Hebrew were so 60's and there communities had moved on and gone surfing. The poms, irish and scots were too busy drinking to establish NSL teams could have seen some real 80's 'passion' there. Yawn material for me and others who wanted to see real connected football passion... Nearly got it with Adelaide City but the old Italian guard didnt want to embrace the rest of us....
A-league has problems but at least it has a chance in the Future....
NSL > leave it for the history boys..
Did like Aginor Munez and Dixie Deans for city tho....

victory08 yes we are in the public eye and yes somtimes it may be petty but dont you think that it gives more reason for the ffa to stamp this kind of behaviour out of our game. so that is why a zero tolerance approch is crusial. to answer sydneycroatia58 coment i am 32 years of age and have been to many preston v knights games and if you think that is somthing to stand by you must have a tiny p-nut for a brain . oh and by the way has anyone out there seen a pitch invasion at an a-league game or put the a-league players at risk . it people like you that give this great game a bad name in the media...... I.D.I.O.T........

bring back old ethnic clubs more fun to be around

Looks like we redeemed the point and the 3 goal deficit we were handed last week in the most clinical fashion against the early league leaders

Hume City 0 - smfc 6

I would have taken a draw before the game

Edited by chris: 25/4/2010 08:45:03 PM

My son will never set foot at an a-league game.

100% spot on no more to say

Its good to see the new breed of football followers now their history....fkn uneducated fucks