Melbourne put 6 goals past Adelaide in the A-League Grand Final and won the match in a canter. To quote the late Jack “Captain Blood” Dyer, “nice sizzle, shame about the sausage”. It was a good game, but any game that one sided isn’t really that enjoyable to watch. ¬†Mind you, I’ll take the premiership any day!
Unfortunately, my experience of the game was sullied by the unmerciful booing of the losing Adelaide team by the Melbourne Victory crowd. Call me old fashioned, but I always thought it was good to be humble in victory and graceful in defeat?
But just when I was thinking that the crowd should be ashamed of themselves for booing Adelaide, in his speech, their captain, Ross Aloisi, said that the referees had “ruined the game”.
Compare and contrast Nathan Buckley’s post match comments after the 2002 Grand Final to that one, hey?
I started booing Aloisi with the rest of them. That dog.