Gosford lock-in as Sydney exit

Central Coast Mariners 0 Sydney FC 0 Sydney FC fans enjoyed a fabulous season-ending party at Central Coast Stadium as the the Sky Blues besieged the Mariners goal and went down with a fight to the premiers on a cold, wet, breezy but magical A-League evening. There was drama and excitement in spades to makeContinue reading “Gosford lock-in as Sydney exit”

Damage limitation as women steal the show

Sydney FC 1 Central Coast Mariners 2 Sydney FC lived to fight another day as their nine remaining players battled to the end to keep the scoreline down, setting up a classic finals encounter in Gosford next weekend. A miserable evening burst to life when Joel King somehow finished midway through the first half, butContinue reading “Damage limitation as women steal the show”

Sparse crowd enjoy VAR nonsense

Sydney FC 4 Macarthur FC 0 The Sydney conspiracy was in full swing on Saturday night as Macarthur FC fell foul once again to the spectre of the dreaded VAR. Playing against a ten-man Bulls is nothing new, and indeed last time these two teams met, the Sky Blues were hapless in finding a wayContinue reading “Sparse crowd enjoy VAR nonsense”

Tony Tiger and Special K serve up a cold dish to visitors

Sydney FC 2 Western Sydney Wanderers 1 An incredible evening of A-League entertainment came down to the final minute of additional time when Jaiden Kucharski’s volley looped into the net to seal a great win for Sydney FC against the auld enemy at Allianz Stadium. A game that had the fans rapt from the openingContinue reading “Tony Tiger and Special K serve up a cold dish to visitors”

What a Cancar as Sydney crumble

Newcastle Jets 3 Sydney FC 1 Happy birthday to me. Bah! After half an hour we were wondering what had gone wrong as the Sydney FC defence left the right back spot completely unguarded on multiple occasions and succumbed twice to relatively soft Jets goals. With Robbie Mak sent off for a ridiculous moment soonContinue reading “What a Cancar as Sydney crumble”

Sydney serve up rotten eggs in Victory collapse

Sydney FC 0 Melbourne Victory 4 The Canberra hangover continued at a beautiful sunny Leichhardt Oval on Easter Sunday as Sydney FC managed to throw away what was left of their premiership crown with an insipid performance against their biggest rivals Melbourne Victory. The consolation of Western Sydney missing out, the thoughts of what aContinue reading “Sydney serve up rotten eggs in Victory collapse”

APL Conspiracy ensures final day drama

Canberra United 1 Sydney FC 0 The best ever scheduling of a rearranged A-League game gave us a 4pm Wednesday kick off at McKellar Park for a potential crowning of Sydney FC as unlikely premiers of the A-League Women’s 23/34 season. Tacked on to the Socceroos’ Tuesday night in Canberra, this timing allowed us toContinue reading “APL Conspiracy ensures final day drama”

Half a game better than no game at all

Sydney FC 3 Adelaide United 0 So, have you ever seen only half a game? I’m not talking on the telly, or rocking up early to your game early and seeing half of the game before, this is about the one game that you wanted to see, and you only caught a part of it.Continue reading “Half a game better than no game at all”

Ten-man Sydney denied

Sydney FC 1 Brisbane Roar 1 A superb performance from Sydney FC after going down to ten men due to the contentious sending off of Jake Girdwood-Reich gave the fans plenty of cheer to round off the weekend at Allianz Stadium. When Robbie Mak netted for the home team in front of the Cove, anContinue reading “Ten-man Sydney denied”

Pride of Sydney closes the gap

Sydney FC Women 3 Western United 1 A splash of colour, a beautiful sunset and almost 3,500 fans flocked to Leichhardt Oval for Pride Round on a wonderful evening in the Inner West of Sydney. Abbey Lemon gave Sydney a deserved early lead as they started strongly, Cortnee Vine extended the lead in the secondContinue reading “Pride of Sydney closes the gap”