Post by cigan1996 on Jan 31, 2012 18:54:17 GMT 10
Great NSL moments:
1. The rocket flare being let off by Knights fans on kick-off of the grand final 1992.
2. Appointing Eddie 0-0 Thomson as coach
3. Sacking Eddie (0-0) Thompson
4. The forming of the NSL.
5. The hole in the net which the South Melb player hit and went through with the first finally given goal in the Marconi semi in 1994.
6. Morwell changing their ****ing name 3 times in 4 years. (And where are they now!
7. 2 goals in the opening 3 minutes world cup qualifier vs NZ Olympic park, and Blair missing both goals while in the bar queue.
8. Andrew Bernal slapping Heath in the face, then being hit by 2 glasses of scotch in the eyes by above mentioned, before being arrested by police who saw the incident and being put in cuffs in the dressing room and crying in front of his whole team.
9. Heath missing an easy header from a Puskas cross when having a kick around after the Sth Melb - St George match at lambert park.
10. Banana Dragon Pupovac jumping the fence and charging the crowd during a state league Sutho vs Bonnyrigg game.
11. Olympic scoring 2 injury time goals in the 1995 Sydney united match and the 15 minute pitch invasion that followed.
12. Inside soccer
13. Preston-Sydney Olympic riots, st george stadium late 80s early 90s
14. Pratten park pitch invasion Sydney City vs Olympic and Tony Pezzano running for his life whilst being chased by a 60 year old carrying a medical box over his head.
15. Corrupt John Constintine
16. Even corrupter Tony Labbozetta
17. Kim Talidoras saying John Holmes I mean Ian Holmes on On The Ball.
18. A young Mark Viduka, standing in bay23 before he was famous, ripping out seats with everyone after we equalised against Argentina.
19. Les murrays famous `Charlie Yankos, side netting. nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.`its gone in!!!!!
20. Referee Carlo longhi, 4 minutes short vs Israel
21. AC Milan tour match in melbourne, 35minute first half
22. Raul Blanco grasp of english
23. Rale Rasic
24. Iran 2 Australia 2
25. Masterminding the flare barrage MCG WCQ 1998.
26. St george boys setting fire to the whole back end of Lambert park and then watching the game in amongst the fire brigade blokes putting out the fire.
27. Don Parkes
28. Mad Martin leaping off the 20 ft tv tower at St george staduim straight onto the ground
29. Nicola Bertis fat gut and great attitude
30. Beating the dirty jews from Israel on the away goals rule , world youth championship qualifer 1990, even though both games were in Sydney
31. St george fan Billy the fish, on the pitch before a NSL game, with can of VB in hand,warming up with the players
32. The infamous St george Marconi away bus trip of which only 13 of the 17 who set out returned.
33. The raiding of the Auburn mosque on that trip,and the subsequent phone calls from the police to the organiser re being a race hate group organiser and hooligan(both correct you ****ing dopes)
34. John Bell and soccer pith weak(I mean soccer this week)
35. Ned Zelic scoring 2 goals vs holland 1991
36. The famous camaflouge vomit socceroo strip
37. Raul Blancos first match, losing 0-1 to NZ
38. Looting *** and car batteries every road house on the melb sydney melb adelaide bus trips.
39. The bring back stgeorge protest at Gabbie stadium during the state league grand final
40. Lou on national TV screaming death to the nsl.
41. The giant nazi banner during the Aus vs Israel game.
42. Jerry Gomez kicking Marshall soper in the face and knocking out his teeth,1986 Sydney city sydney olympic match
43. Mark Silic and Mark Viduka Nazi saluting the crowd after every goal circa 1993-4.
44. Dickeroo
45. Filling the fridges freezer sections full of wet sheets during the stay in the Adelaide hotel, knowing full well that the hotel was totally booked up in Demovic's name.(and he didn't know)
46. Calling NSL gen manager Peter Russell over for a beer in Adelaide airport, then giving him the old dregs from an old glass sitting on an adjacent table.
47. Nick somehow getting into the MCG with 40 flares and smokebombs without getting nicked, then letting them off of course.
48. Zoran matic public speaking
49. Schintler reserve, once proud home of footscray JUST, now a dump for old rusting containers.
50. The beach fashions cup
51. St george vs Sunshine official crowd of 300 in the papers, but being at the game and being in the know, the actual crowd was 169 people, making it the lowest ever top division sports crowd in history of Aussie sport.
52. Skinner reserve being used for nsl matches.
53. Frank Aroks ****ed head
54. Perth glory losing the title after being 3-0 up at half time in front of 45000plus home fans. ****wits
55. Luka getting in to SFS with a token from a newspapers for kids under 12, and carring the swastika banner with him for the Israel game
56. Venebles claiming we would have won the world cup if we had beaten Iran...****ing ***
57. The playing of the German anthem before the Israel-oz game in 86 in Melbourne!!!
58. 1991 GF in melb, the knights had 3 shots to win the title and missed all 3, subsequently losing the shootout. useless c####
59. Preston-Hellas riots (Nick please elaborate)
60. Hellas-Knights riots (Nick please elaborate)
61. The rampage, Australia v England 1991, Melbourne lads on the steps of the Great Synagogue doing a sieg heil, then spitting on the steps, telling an old bag lady to get ****ed, the shame of the Old Windsor Tavern, drunks with their own bottles, flares on open display, criminal
damage in at least four more pubs along the way, redirecting traffic into an area of roadworks in surry hills, throwing pool balls on south dowling street, taking down the ladder belonging to those blokes working on the roof of the terrace house, big Adam splashing his schooner into the face of some woman inside a bus outside the Captain Cook, holding the last two rows of Bay 23 in the face of an English onslaught even though less than half of us were still there at the end.
62. Andrew Bernal buying you a beer a couple of months after "the incident"
63. Me ringing John Constantine at the ASF then berating him for axing St George, before finishing with the immortal words "in that case I cannot guarantee that there won't be violence at the Australia-England game next weekend".
64. The Parramatta Stadium GF fire, Marconi-Ad City, flare smuggled in by 5 yo Justin Demovic and ignited by Jimmy the Greek. Disrupted play for 8 mins.
65. The fence at the southern end collapsing under the weight of celebrating Marconi fans 1990 Grand Final
66. Cameron George Frearson, 25, of Gymea, quoted in the Daily Tele, when quizzed by the magistrate as to why he had lit a flare at the Australia v Holland Olympic qualifier: "Because it creates a good visual effect when a goal is scored"
67. Simon Pijaca and his debut commentary for an NSL game (and subsequent last one) for the Marconi - Melb Knights match season 1994/95, with comments such as "Upfield Uptown", "Good night nurse" "Silic on the ball..... wait a minute that's not Silic that's Buljubasic", "Don't talk to
the card dealer like that 'cos, he'll give you one", "Is it going to be a red one, c'mon.... yes it is!", "Ahhhh Buljubasic, he just can't get a goal if he paid for one" ....etc.
68. John Markovski, the s*** of the NSL, been through more clubs than he has eaten his old man's piprike (capsicums).
69.That "dubious" flag (Nazi swastika flag) that mysteriously draped over the crowd at Bay 23 when Eli Ohana scored for Israel against Australia in the World Cup Qualifier in 1989 at Sydney Football Stadium, which ended up being the biggest story in England the next day!!!
70. Phranc (not his real name) doing a solo pitch invasion in the Melbourne Knights vs Marconi Grand Final (1996) at the final whistle. He was tackeled and then apprehended by security guards/police only for 100's of Knights Fans to storm the pitch to come to his rescue. Following the 'Liberation of Phranc' from the security/police by the Knights fans, Phranc proceeded towards the running track to have a pith on the running track in full view of the 1000's of fans in the main grandstand and 1000's of fans.
71. The 'pub-crawl' in Sydney on the day of the England-Australia "friendly" game in 1991.
72. Lou appearing at the end of the T.V documentary chanting "Death to the NSL !" on A.B.C. T.V Four Corners Programme on corruption in Australian Soccer, whilst wearing a "Death to the NSL T-Shirt."
73. The half-time warm up at Middle Park involving Olyroo fans and South Korean substitutes, when Luka 'ripped' a volley from point blank range, which hit the South Korean Reserve Goal-Keeper in the chest that almost killed him.
74. Young & Jacksons Pub being totally destroyed everytime the Knights are in a Grand Final in Melbourne, as well as the traditional "The Annual Smoke out the Flinders/Swanston Street Intersection" when making your way to the Ground.
75. When fans were handed out large 1 Litre Coca Cola plastic bottles upon entry into the grand final (Knights Vs Adelaide City in 1994), only to cause huge human traffic jams in the toilets to get them filled with water, to throw at the Adelaide Fans below, causing a mass evacuation of 3000 Adelaide fans, disrupting the closing stages of the Youth Grand Final, where they were relocated on the other side of the stadium like sheep.
76. Heidelberg Alexander & Footscray JUST being relegated in the one year.
77. When Frank Arok stated to the press that the fans behind the goals at the Israel-Australia Match in 1989 have made him so proud that he would admit them free to all St.George Games, after the press asked Frank Arok to comment on their "dubious" behaviour (the supporters made a swastika formation in the crowd!.
78. ANY tour by any international touring team. Special mentions to West Ham who had Peter Tsolakis play as a 'guest player', Paraguay for their 'exciting & attacking' approach, Manchester United who showed us why they are the biggest wankers and c#### in world football and who could ever forget the Torpedo Moscow & Gothenburg tours- scintillating stuff.
79. Fools who think they can make $$$$$$$$$ investing in Australian soccer, yes you Oscar Crino
stupid ****ing idiot who invested money in, of all clubs Footscray JUST. Last seen wandering the aisles of Crown Casino looking for loose change/chips on the floor. LOSER.
80. Berti Mariani & Dominic Galati (soccer promoters extrodonaire) who are heading down the same path as Oscar Crino. Will be fun watching them go flat broke and scouring ashtrays at Crown.
81. Ex socceroo & Derby County keeper Yakka Banovic who *** ****** * *** ****** ** ******* ******** **** *** **** *** **** **********. Serves him right for wasting his time with aussie soccer. **** him.
82. Ferenc Puskas and the famous spagetti incident at club Marconi-- he actually ate a large platter of pasta intended for a whole table. He thought it was for himself only.
83. Ferenc Puskas eating pumkin seeds during the tense Knights-Hellas GF in '91, then when his club gets up and wins the most remarkable penalty shoot-out in the history of the world, calmly gets up and goes home (to eat his dinner no doubt).
84. Food at NSL grounds. sh** and expensive.
85. Hellas fans respect & affection for Francis Awaritife when he was playing for Melbourne Croatia. “Nigger...Nigger..Nigger...”
86. Actually paying money to watch the NSL. That makes us all a bunch of losers doesn't it?
87. Zeljko Adzic leaving Australia very quickly after screwing a 16 year old girl who was the daughter of a Knights committee member.
88. South Melb. Hellas sacking Boutsianis; who won the championship for them, for being implicated in armed robbery claiming it would bring bad publicity to the club. Being associated to Australian Soccer is probably the worst publicity you can get.
89. Last year's NSL. "Yes we are restructuring and we are cutting back on teams." NOT!
90. The Knights bringing out Mark Prskalo. "OH, yes he's a striker that played for Croatia Zagreb and he's an international." NOT! He came to Australia for a holiday knowing full well he couldn't play. It took the Knights about four months to bring him out, all expenses paid. Faked an injury which lasted another two months and when he did start to train, turned around to Vanis after two training sessions and said that the standard of the league and training was too hard and he couldn't cut it. Went back to Croatia after he stuffed his arse and wallet. They should
have known just by the surname what kind of special person they were dealing with.
91. The last time Hellas played Makedonia and there were fights after the game. It was funny to see you climbing an 8 foot fence just outside the gates to throw punches at the blockheads, only to walk 2 more metres further to find out the fence ended.
92. As for NSL memories the one that stands out in my head was at Middle Park when Con Death threw that Chicken at Francis Awartefe. I cant remember if Frances stopped for a quick snack since he likes his food eaten off the floor and not on a plate.
93. The chanting of Brazilian Monkey ****ers in front of Brazilian TV cameramen and reporters WYC semi final '93. Also the donning of the KKK hats during the game.
94. The incident at Skinner Reserve (Braybrook Football Club) where Lou booby-trapped the outer with fishing line almost decapitating 'Big John Stud's' former brother-in-law who was riding his BMX down the hill. The scars still haven't faded.
95. The boiled BBQ sausages at Preston Makedonia.
96. The time when I threw a full can at an Olympic player, missing his head by a millimetre causing Sydney United to be fined $10,000.
97. The Sydney United v Footscray Just match where there was a full scale riot which included crates of grapes being thrown around at the truck depot next to the ground.
98. Footscray JUST's prime location supplying enough railway stones to be thrown at their supporters in the ground. It is almost as stupid as Isreali soldier's blowing up Palestinian houses only to create more stones for the Palestinians to throw back at the Isreali soldiers.
99. Footscray Just for supplying the best views of the ground - the railway line
100. George Cross for supplying the best views of their ground - the railway bridge
101. The clothesline that can be seen at the back of Apia to win's old ground.
102. The flare barrage at Hajduk v Australia where the whole side of Olympic Park was covered in orange for 15 minutes.
103. When the Hajduk players tore of the red stars of their jerseys whilst their was still a Yugoslavia.
104. The Serbian demonstration at the city square during the Croatian National team tour of Australia. Idiots didn't realise that J&J was full of drunken Croatians.
105. Hrga's flare throwing exploits where a security guards pants caught fire.
106. The flare throwing exhibition at the Sydney United v Marconi in the '87 grand final which stopped Slater from scoring and robbing United of yet another a grand final win.
107. And who could forget Steve Horvat's (useless ****ing c***) hand waving routine at Australia v Iran where he was running one way and the ball and the Iranian were going the other way towards goals. Chris Bambridge expertise at cheating whilst calling himself a referee.
108. John Markovski's diet.
109. Muscat stealing t-shirts in Portugal whilst wearing an Aussie tracksuit during the youth world cup.
110 Silic being arrested in the hotel, Portuguese police thinking it was him instead of Muscat.
111 George Cross producing so many talented players (Marth, Mori, Kitdner) only to see them go to other clubs at a dirt cheap price.
112 Hellas fans and players carrying TANSEL BASER (Turk) on their shoulders off the pitch after his farewell game before going to Turkey.
113 "pith in the ashtray" Spink.
114 Ante Grgic being sacked as coach after a players revolt saying that he trained the team too hard. He challanged THEO Selemides to a 100 metre race and offering to give THEO a 10 metre head start and THEO' refused knowing full well that Bonanza was a fat 60 year old c***.
115 Most jubilant moment in NSL History: seeing JUST relegated
116 Most saddest day: Realising straight afterwards that there will be no more guaranteed riots at the soccer
117 Second most jubilant moment: Realising that Dinamo just got itself a great Derby game.
118 Joe Kovacs threatening to beat the sh** out of 'monkey man' Anastasiadis. Anistasiadis had to hide in the change rooms for over a good hour after all of his teammates left, fearing for his life. Had to be escorted to Marths car by police and Marth driving him to safety.
119 Joe Kovacs skitzing it at Dinamo after beating up the two Jugo brothers, who played for Green Gully, in the players race. His Dad trying to stop him and him skitzing it even more, picking up a boulder and throwing it at his Dad's head.
120 Laurie Schwab's dad.
121 The old fat fart of a cameraman/reporter trying to rip of the Union Jack flag off the fence at South Melb and then
being attacked.
122 Greeks bringing Serb flags to taunt Cro's
123 Cro's waving Mako flags to taunt Greeks
124 The successful Collingwood FC/ Heildelberg merger.
125 Zoran Matic's house being called on a regular basis with his family being abused.
126 Zoran's daughter telling PHRanK over the phone that "If you were smart you wouldn't be calling here" and PHranK replying "Well I'm not". (smart)
127 Radio talkback being hijacked by d***head calling and saying silly sh** over the air.
128 Gary Ward writing a letter to Croatia saying "If you want goal, goals and more goals, I'm the man to see".
129 Melb Croatia winning the Summer Gold Cup only to have it stripped of them after the league realised that Babic was sent off during a reserve grade game.
130 Zeljko Gagula actually playing as a striker and scoring.
131 Vrzina turning strikers into defenders at Dinamo eg Gagula, Colina
132 Sitting in the grandstand at Olympic Park in Swastika formation and nobody could do a thing about it......During the World Youth Championships (WYC).
133 Melb Croatia breaking the record for most coaches in a season.
134 Melb Croatia signing John Markovski as a player, not once, but three times. He just ate the club broke.
135 Zoran Matic almost being killed after thinking that having lunch inside the Dinamo clubrooms was a good idea.
136 Melb Croatia moving a vital game against Adelaide City to North Geelong's ground when Adelaide was on top of the table and Melb Croatia needed to start winning to avoid relegation. NO SECURITY
137 The old drunk security/ground attenders at Dinamo with stubbies in their back pockets.
138 Mark Viduka scoring a hat-trick in the semi final, in the rain, and when Melb Croatia was playing with 10 men after a send off in the ten minute mark!!
139 Ivan Duzel spitting on the referee and then spitting on the linesman for good measure after being sent off in a semi final. Missed out on playing in the Knight's first winning grand final side.
140 The destruction to and from the ground during the first Knight's grand final win in Adelaide. Factories caught fire and police were beaten.
141 Joe Biskic's all time great comment "PUT BALL IN GOAL"
142 Blacktown Gate 12
143 The huge Barry 'O' chants. Everyone use to do it but most people didn't even know who Barry 'O' was.
144 A few of us changed the padlocks at a back gate at Olympic park in '93 before the World Youth Championships (WYC). It went undetected for a while, we were getting in for free, just walk up make sure no one around, open the padlock and were in. HAHAHAHA.
145 What ever happened to referee Chris Bambridge after his dubious World Cup 'goal' decision. Has he just dissappeared of the planet or living the high life in the Bahama's.
146 Certain melb Croatia players (OP&MS) smuggling flares into the ground at olympic park before GF Vs Ad city and passing them on to 'mates' waiting inside ground. Not all thugs are stupid. A few, well most of us have uni degrees so get ****ed all you coppers, officials etc.
147 Melb croatia fans pissing on the penalty spot the night before the GF against Hellas. It was the same end as that well remembered shoot-out. You can clearly see on TV the penalty spot having been re-marked. Was this a curse or just fate.
148 'Redman' & friends getting thrown out in record time (5 minutes) from a hotel in Sydney after being seen pissing out the 2nd floor window and throwing missiles at traffic below. Sprung bad.
149 'Redman' again, waking Con 'lights' up by pissing next to his bed in a $12 a night hotel room. The 'steam' from the urine sent him into a violent rage.
150 A bus driver ordering Luka to clean up his vomit from the bus aisle, he duly obliges by flopping it out and sweeping it down the aisle with his urine to the complete horror of the elderly passengers on board. They were then 'unfairly' ejected from the bus somewhere near Albury.
151 A favourite of mine is when Chris Faklaris (the U.S/ Greek star striker) scored a hat-trick against Turkey during the WYC in '93 and watching 15000 turks explode into a frenzy of anger and frustration. Sheer bliss for all of us greek-aussies in the crowd.
152 'Redman' for throwing a flare at Bonnie Ginzberg (scum jew goalie) during the pre-match warm up at the '89 WC qualifier at SFS. It missed him by mm's, he and a couple of Mosad agents then look up towards me in shock and I give them a huge zieg heil. If it had hit him well we could have been off to Italia 90 and I a ****wit/moron soccer thug would have been responsible for the greatest moment in Australian soccer history. Just imagine we were millimetres away from potentially qualifying. I (redman) would have been given 'martyr' status amongst all true fans of aussie soccer.
153 Joe Kov....bashing and then stealing the car keys off some hapless Ad city fan after melb croatia lost another GF. He then threw the keys in the yarra river. HAHAHAHAHAHA.
154 THE MASTURBATION INCIDENT- HINDMARSH STADIUM JANUARY 1998 ADELAIDE CITY v SOUTH MELBOURNE
Whilst giving Jason Petkovic his usual deserved abuse after SM had taken an early lead, JP turns around after Ad C equalise to the travelling SM fans and sticks up 3 fingers (3 titles) & gives up the chocking sign (SM's deserved status at the time-prelim final chockers) the ****ing imbecile.Well Peter K after a big drinking session in 40 degree heat charges down the terraces unzips his pants,flops out his c**k and starts jerking off in front of a stunned and suddenly quiet J Petkovic. Everyone on the terraces including Ad city fans are in complete hysterics.
155 The stupid dumb bookie at hindmarsh on the same night asks me(redman) at half time who scored SM's first goal.I tell him Panopoulos.He then starts paying Theo K who had a 'winning ticket'.We then calmly walk away after collecting. In fact Clarkson had scored SM's first goal.
Thank-you Mr Bookmaker .
156 CHICKEN MAN. Young sth melb fan around 16 was asked where he got all those flares from for an away trip to sydney. His reply was out of this world, "I stole my parents chickens and sold them and bought the flares". He is the future of Australian soccer.
157. Former NSL referee Jim Reeves jailed on child sex charges!
158. John Smith spending the last 4 hours on the train from Albury to Melbourne in the toilet, to avoid paying the fare on the Victorian leg of the journey (he had got the NSW part half-price because he was on the dole) It was the same toilet Adam had earlier clogged up with toilet
paper, and the floor was ankle deep in water/urine
159. "pith in the Yarra, we're gonna pith in the Yarra" and the horrified looks on the faces of the old couple on the other side of the river as we all stood under the bridge pissing and singing.
160. The Wollongong Train trip. Everyone talks about the Marconi bus trip but the Wollongong train trip was arguably a more successful trip. The tone was set when big Adam consumed an entire case of VB twist tops in just 90 mins on the train. Then on the way to the ground mad Martin famously sacrificed himself paratrooper style, lying across a broken piece of fencing to allow the rest of the brigade to go over the top of him to safety. Inside the ground Adam tore out a plastic seat and still with metal frame and a lump of concrete attached, hurled it from the top of the stand with a banshee-roar, narrowly missing two red-coated Wollongong officials. After the game we discovered with glee that it was bin-night and dispensed the contents of dozens of bins all over Fairy Meadow. On the train journey home, big Adam - already the star of the days proceedings, and grinning from ear to ear - tore out a number of seats and hurled them out the open door of the moving carriage. Soft-as-shite Andrew Hearts, avoiding us in the rear carriage - later reported that it was standing-room only as hoardes of people flooded the carriage in terror. "The skinheads have gone beserk!" they said.
161. I missed it, but how about Jimmy's perfect aim with the meat pie at the Brisbane GF?
162. The Chinese/Vietnamese market garden near StGeorge and the appalling dwellings that they lived in (remember we wandered in one day, and planned to pull down the supporting pillar of loosely-stacked bricks?) As it was we were content to have Adam set fire to a tract of their land
163. All of us getting ejected en masse as the Socceroos crashed to a (4-0? 4-1?) defeat vs Japan in Wollongong. We had positioned ourselves right behind the bench, hurling abuse at Eddie Thomson
164. In the mid to late 1980's when South Melbourne Hellas Soccer Club was having trouble controlling its fans, mainly the faction kwnown as 'The Hellas Hooligans-Gate 1,' some clever sod (South Melbourne committee man) had a brilliant idea: "Lets make the hard-core ringleaders official security for Middle Park Stadium to guard the inside perimeter of the ground. Once they get a taste for responsibility....they'll get respect and this should curb their wayward ways and because they're not with their mates, the problems on the terraces for the club are over."
Little did this dumb c*** know that: 'once a hooligan...always a hooligan.' Yeah, the Gate 1 thugs agreed to this opportunity. But at the first game with this new security arrangement when the first goal was scored for South Melbourne,....the 'new' security guards (in their new overcoats with club badges and 'security' emblazoned on them, were the first to charge onto the pitch and hug and lift the players causing absolute pandemonium. When the flares came flying into the arena, they would pick them up and run with them like they were olmpic torches, instead of trying to extinguish them. Sadly for Australian Soccer...this security arrangement only lasted one game.
165. Speaking 0f great security stories,in 1986-7 i think St george we running 1 short in the stewards dept before a game vs apia.We had been drinking at the club across the road for 6 hours and 1 of the boys "luton dave"to be exact was asked when we walked in if he would do it.Before you knew it we were behind the goal and dave was patrolling the perimeter as a good steward should.Remember that dave was very very pithed when you read the following.Anyway Joe Murray the
chief steward came over after 30 mins of the game 0-0 of course and asked me were the 4th steward was(our mate dave)as a nsl commisioner was at the game and had commented that all clubs had to have 4 staff on the pitch patrolling and we had only 3.We all stated that dave was out there but upon closer examination he was no where in sight.Even joe urgay said that he had seen dave walk out of the players tunnell onto the pitch.We searched everywhere along the ground circumfrence to no avail.In the end they got someone else to take over and the game finished 1-1 and we went back to the fishos club to drink more pith,presuming that dave was drunk as a c*** and must have slipped out of the ground and gone home.After about 1 hour in the club in walks dave covered in sh** and dirt.Apparantly he needed to have a sh** after 1 minute of the match and found the door of the old change rooms behind the goal(digby you know the ones)open,went in,had a crap,and then decided to lay down for a while on the filthy old players massage table in the dark .The silly c*** fell asleep blind and was found by the cartakers german shepards which used to be let loose at night in the stadium to prevent breakins.He was bailed up until rescued by mishy the old hungarian c*** caretaker...........dave what a nsl steward....
166. For example, the following anecdotal piece circa 1996/7 was always, to me, one of the best examples of the Gilligan-esque (lack of) administrative qualities diplayed by the game's administrators. The names have been changed to protect me, but I'm sure you'll get the jist.
This was pre-Carlton's admission to the NSL, but at that point hopes were high that the new club would replicate the success of Perth Glory and I was privy to a private meeting of several big knobs from Carlton, Nike and SA. After the pow-wow broke up I just happened onto a Carlton guy of the time and the Aussie Nike rep talking to SA's 'Steven Klamass', explaining quietly that Nike international were very keen to make a significant contribution to the game here, as well as getting involved at Carlton. The Nike fellow gave Klamass a business card upon which he scribbled the (very) private contact number for THE Mr Nike International, who would be in the country in the next couple of weeks and was actively soliciting some discrete contact.
About a month later or more - over a very informal lunch in Lygon Street - I was with said Carlton guy and Klamass and a couple of other forgettable bods.
"By the way," Carlton guy quietly says to Klamass.
"How did you go with THAT contact?"
You can almost see the cartoonish question marks popping up over Klamass' head.
"You know, the Nike contact...how did it go?" prompts Carlton. Klamass offers a quizzical swish of the head, before the lightbulb pops on.
"Oh, ****, I completely forgot about that," Klamass mumbles.
"Now, what did I do with that number?"
Nick, whilst the conversation above isn't quoted as word perfect, it's pretty damned close.
(Yet) Another opportunity flushed down the S-bend.
What can you say!!!
Regards,
Anonymous.
167 Probably not top 100 material, but certainly another marvellous example of the artful diplomacy employed by Soccer Australia. Did you know that a significant number of 'specially invited' interstate guests to last season's NSL awards dinner in Sydney were sent ****ing bills to cover their air fares some two or three weeks after the event and without notice? I got this from a former Socceroo team manager now based in South Aus., who was billed for his flights...ahem...even though he declined to attend the evening.
And we let these people run the ****ing game!!!
1. The rocket flare being let off by Knights fans on kick-off of the grand final 1992.
2. Appointing Eddie 0-0 Thomson as coach
3. Sacking Eddie (0-0) Thompson
4. The forming of the NSL.
5. The hole in the net which the South Melb player hit and went through with the first finally given goal in the Marconi semi in 1994.
6. Morwell changing their ****ing name 3 times in 4 years. (And where are they now!
7. 2 goals in the opening 3 minutes world cup qualifier vs NZ Olympic park, and Blair missing both goals while in the bar queue.
8. Andrew Bernal slapping Heath in the face, then being hit by 2 glasses of scotch in the eyes by above mentioned, before being arrested by police who saw the incident and being put in cuffs in the dressing room and crying in front of his whole team.
9. Heath missing an easy header from a Puskas cross when having a kick around after the Sth Melb - St George match at lambert park.
10. Banana Dragon Pupovac jumping the fence and charging the crowd during a state league Sutho vs Bonnyrigg game.
11. Olympic scoring 2 injury time goals in the 1995 Sydney united match and the 15 minute pitch invasion that followed.
12. Inside soccer
13. Preston-Sydney Olympic riots, st george stadium late 80s early 90s
14. Pratten park pitch invasion Sydney City vs Olympic and Tony Pezzano running for his life whilst being chased by a 60 year old carrying a medical box over his head.
15. Corrupt John Constintine
16. Even corrupter Tony Labbozetta
17. Kim Talidoras saying John Holmes I mean Ian Holmes on On The Ball.
18. A young Mark Viduka, standing in bay23 before he was famous, ripping out seats with everyone after we equalised against Argentina.
19. Les murrays famous `Charlie Yankos, side netting. nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.`its gone in!!!!!
20. Referee Carlo longhi, 4 minutes short vs Israel
21. AC Milan tour match in melbourne, 35minute first half
22. Raul Blanco grasp of english
23. Rale Rasic
24. Iran 2 Australia 2
25. Masterminding the flare barrage MCG WCQ 1998.
26. St george boys setting fire to the whole back end of Lambert park and then watching the game in amongst the fire brigade blokes putting out the fire.
27. Don Parkes
28. Mad Martin leaping off the 20 ft tv tower at St george staduim straight onto the ground
29. Nicola Bertis fat gut and great attitude
30. Beating the dirty jews from Israel on the away goals rule , world youth championship qualifer 1990, even though both games were in Sydney
31. St george fan Billy the fish, on the pitch before a NSL game, with can of VB in hand,warming up with the players
32. The infamous St george Marconi away bus trip of which only 13 of the 17 who set out returned.
33. The raiding of the Auburn mosque on that trip,and the subsequent phone calls from the police to the organiser re being a race hate group organiser and hooligan(both correct you ****ing dopes)
34. John Bell and soccer pith weak(I mean soccer this week)
35. Ned Zelic scoring 2 goals vs holland 1991
36. The famous camaflouge vomit socceroo strip
37. Raul Blancos first match, losing 0-1 to NZ
38. Looting *** and car batteries every road house on the melb sydney melb adelaide bus trips.
39. The bring back stgeorge protest at Gabbie stadium during the state league grand final
40. Lou on national TV screaming death to the nsl.
41. The giant nazi banner during the Aus vs Israel game.
42. Jerry Gomez kicking Marshall soper in the face and knocking out his teeth,1986 Sydney city sydney olympic match
43. Mark Silic and Mark Viduka Nazi saluting the crowd after every goal circa 1993-4.
44. Dickeroo
45. Filling the fridges freezer sections full of wet sheets during the stay in the Adelaide hotel, knowing full well that the hotel was totally booked up in Demovic's name.(and he didn't know)
46. Calling NSL gen manager Peter Russell over for a beer in Adelaide airport, then giving him the old dregs from an old glass sitting on an adjacent table.
47. Nick somehow getting into the MCG with 40 flares and smokebombs without getting nicked, then letting them off of course.
48. Zoran matic public speaking
49. Schintler reserve, once proud home of footscray JUST, now a dump for old rusting containers.
50. The beach fashions cup
51. St george vs Sunshine official crowd of 300 in the papers, but being at the game and being in the know, the actual crowd was 169 people, making it the lowest ever top division sports crowd in history of Aussie sport.
52. Skinner reserve being used for nsl matches.
53. Frank Aroks ****ed head
54. Perth glory losing the title after being 3-0 up at half time in front of 45000plus home fans. ****wits
55. Luka getting in to SFS with a token from a newspapers for kids under 12, and carring the swastika banner with him for the Israel game
56. Venebles claiming we would have won the world cup if we had beaten Iran...****ing ***
57. The playing of the German anthem before the Israel-oz game in 86 in Melbourne!!!
58. 1991 GF in melb, the knights had 3 shots to win the title and missed all 3, subsequently losing the shootout. useless c####
59. Preston-Hellas riots (Nick please elaborate)
60. Hellas-Knights riots (Nick please elaborate)
61. The rampage, Australia v England 1991, Melbourne lads on the steps of the Great Synagogue doing a sieg heil, then spitting on the steps, telling an old bag lady to get ****ed, the shame of the Old Windsor Tavern, drunks with their own bottles, flares on open display, criminal
damage in at least four more pubs along the way, redirecting traffic into an area of roadworks in surry hills, throwing pool balls on south dowling street, taking down the ladder belonging to those blokes working on the roof of the terrace house, big Adam splashing his schooner into the face of some woman inside a bus outside the Captain Cook, holding the last two rows of Bay 23 in the face of an English onslaught even though less than half of us were still there at the end.
62. Andrew Bernal buying you a beer a couple of months after "the incident"
63. Me ringing John Constantine at the ASF then berating him for axing St George, before finishing with the immortal words "in that case I cannot guarantee that there won't be violence at the Australia-England game next weekend".
64. The Parramatta Stadium GF fire, Marconi-Ad City, flare smuggled in by 5 yo Justin Demovic and ignited by Jimmy the Greek. Disrupted play for 8 mins.
65. The fence at the southern end collapsing under the weight of celebrating Marconi fans 1990 Grand Final
66. Cameron George Frearson, 25, of Gymea, quoted in the Daily Tele, when quizzed by the magistrate as to why he had lit a flare at the Australia v Holland Olympic qualifier: "Because it creates a good visual effect when a goal is scored"
67. Simon Pijaca and his debut commentary for an NSL game (and subsequent last one) for the Marconi - Melb Knights match season 1994/95, with comments such as "Upfield Uptown", "Good night nurse" "Silic on the ball..... wait a minute that's not Silic that's Buljubasic", "Don't talk to
the card dealer like that 'cos, he'll give you one", "Is it going to be a red one, c'mon.... yes it is!", "Ahhhh Buljubasic, he just can't get a goal if he paid for one" ....etc.
68. John Markovski, the s*** of the NSL, been through more clubs than he has eaten his old man's piprike (capsicums).
69.That "dubious" flag (Nazi swastika flag) that mysteriously draped over the crowd at Bay 23 when Eli Ohana scored for Israel against Australia in the World Cup Qualifier in 1989 at Sydney Football Stadium, which ended up being the biggest story in England the next day!!!
70. Phranc (not his real name) doing a solo pitch invasion in the Melbourne Knights vs Marconi Grand Final (1996) at the final whistle. He was tackeled and then apprehended by security guards/police only for 100's of Knights Fans to storm the pitch to come to his rescue. Following the 'Liberation of Phranc' from the security/police by the Knights fans, Phranc proceeded towards the running track to have a pith on the running track in full view of the 1000's of fans in the main grandstand and 1000's of fans.
71. The 'pub-crawl' in Sydney on the day of the England-Australia "friendly" game in 1991.
72. Lou appearing at the end of the T.V documentary chanting "Death to the NSL !" on A.B.C. T.V Four Corners Programme on corruption in Australian Soccer, whilst wearing a "Death to the NSL T-Shirt."
73. The half-time warm up at Middle Park involving Olyroo fans and South Korean substitutes, when Luka 'ripped' a volley from point blank range, which hit the South Korean Reserve Goal-Keeper in the chest that almost killed him.
74. Young & Jacksons Pub being totally destroyed everytime the Knights are in a Grand Final in Melbourne, as well as the traditional "The Annual Smoke out the Flinders/Swanston Street Intersection" when making your way to the Ground.
75. When fans were handed out large 1 Litre Coca Cola plastic bottles upon entry into the grand final (Knights Vs Adelaide City in 1994), only to cause huge human traffic jams in the toilets to get them filled with water, to throw at the Adelaide Fans below, causing a mass evacuation of 3000 Adelaide fans, disrupting the closing stages of the Youth Grand Final, where they were relocated on the other side of the stadium like sheep.
76. Heidelberg Alexander & Footscray JUST being relegated in the one year.
77. When Frank Arok stated to the press that the fans behind the goals at the Israel-Australia Match in 1989 have made him so proud that he would admit them free to all St.George Games, after the press asked Frank Arok to comment on their "dubious" behaviour (the supporters made a swastika formation in the crowd!.
78. ANY tour by any international touring team. Special mentions to West Ham who had Peter Tsolakis play as a 'guest player', Paraguay for their 'exciting & attacking' approach, Manchester United who showed us why they are the biggest wankers and c#### in world football and who could ever forget the Torpedo Moscow & Gothenburg tours- scintillating stuff.
79. Fools who think they can make $$$$$$$$$ investing in Australian soccer, yes you Oscar Crino
stupid ****ing idiot who invested money in, of all clubs Footscray JUST. Last seen wandering the aisles of Crown Casino looking for loose change/chips on the floor. LOSER.
80. Berti Mariani & Dominic Galati (soccer promoters extrodonaire) who are heading down the same path as Oscar Crino. Will be fun watching them go flat broke and scouring ashtrays at Crown.
81. Ex socceroo & Derby County keeper Yakka Banovic who *** ****** * *** ****** ** ******* ******** **** *** **** *** **** **********. Serves him right for wasting his time with aussie soccer. **** him.
82. Ferenc Puskas and the famous spagetti incident at club Marconi-- he actually ate a large platter of pasta intended for a whole table. He thought it was for himself only.
83. Ferenc Puskas eating pumkin seeds during the tense Knights-Hellas GF in '91, then when his club gets up and wins the most remarkable penalty shoot-out in the history of the world, calmly gets up and goes home (to eat his dinner no doubt).
84. Food at NSL grounds. sh** and expensive.
85. Hellas fans respect & affection for Francis Awaritife when he was playing for Melbourne Croatia. “Nigger...Nigger..Nigger...”
86. Actually paying money to watch the NSL. That makes us all a bunch of losers doesn't it?
87. Zeljko Adzic leaving Australia very quickly after screwing a 16 year old girl who was the daughter of a Knights committee member.
88. South Melb. Hellas sacking Boutsianis; who won the championship for them, for being implicated in armed robbery claiming it would bring bad publicity to the club. Being associated to Australian Soccer is probably the worst publicity you can get.
89. Last year's NSL. "Yes we are restructuring and we are cutting back on teams." NOT!
90. The Knights bringing out Mark Prskalo. "OH, yes he's a striker that played for Croatia Zagreb and he's an international." NOT! He came to Australia for a holiday knowing full well he couldn't play. It took the Knights about four months to bring him out, all expenses paid. Faked an injury which lasted another two months and when he did start to train, turned around to Vanis after two training sessions and said that the standard of the league and training was too hard and he couldn't cut it. Went back to Croatia after he stuffed his arse and wallet. They should
have known just by the surname what kind of special person they were dealing with.
91. The last time Hellas played Makedonia and there were fights after the game. It was funny to see you climbing an 8 foot fence just outside the gates to throw punches at the blockheads, only to walk 2 more metres further to find out the fence ended.
92. As for NSL memories the one that stands out in my head was at Middle Park when Con Death threw that Chicken at Francis Awartefe. I cant remember if Frances stopped for a quick snack since he likes his food eaten off the floor and not on a plate.
93. The chanting of Brazilian Monkey ****ers in front of Brazilian TV cameramen and reporters WYC semi final '93. Also the donning of the KKK hats during the game.
94. The incident at Skinner Reserve (Braybrook Football Club) where Lou booby-trapped the outer with fishing line almost decapitating 'Big John Stud's' former brother-in-law who was riding his BMX down the hill. The scars still haven't faded.
95. The boiled BBQ sausages at Preston Makedonia.
96. The time when I threw a full can at an Olympic player, missing his head by a millimetre causing Sydney United to be fined $10,000.
97. The Sydney United v Footscray Just match where there was a full scale riot which included crates of grapes being thrown around at the truck depot next to the ground.
98. Footscray JUST's prime location supplying enough railway stones to be thrown at their supporters in the ground. It is almost as stupid as Isreali soldier's blowing up Palestinian houses only to create more stones for the Palestinians to throw back at the Isreali soldiers.
99. Footscray Just for supplying the best views of the ground - the railway line
100. George Cross for supplying the best views of their ground - the railway bridge
101. The clothesline that can be seen at the back of Apia to win's old ground.
102. The flare barrage at Hajduk v Australia where the whole side of Olympic Park was covered in orange for 15 minutes.
103. When the Hajduk players tore of the red stars of their jerseys whilst their was still a Yugoslavia.
104. The Serbian demonstration at the city square during the Croatian National team tour of Australia. Idiots didn't realise that J&J was full of drunken Croatians.
105. Hrga's flare throwing exploits where a security guards pants caught fire.
106. The flare throwing exhibition at the Sydney United v Marconi in the '87 grand final which stopped Slater from scoring and robbing United of yet another a grand final win.
107. And who could forget Steve Horvat's (useless ****ing c***) hand waving routine at Australia v Iran where he was running one way and the ball and the Iranian were going the other way towards goals. Chris Bambridge expertise at cheating whilst calling himself a referee.
108. John Markovski's diet.
109. Muscat stealing t-shirts in Portugal whilst wearing an Aussie tracksuit during the youth world cup.
110 Silic being arrested in the hotel, Portuguese police thinking it was him instead of Muscat.
111 George Cross producing so many talented players (Marth, Mori, Kitdner) only to see them go to other clubs at a dirt cheap price.
112 Hellas fans and players carrying TANSEL BASER (Turk) on their shoulders off the pitch after his farewell game before going to Turkey.
113 "pith in the ashtray" Spink.
114 Ante Grgic being sacked as coach after a players revolt saying that he trained the team too hard. He challanged THEO Selemides to a 100 metre race and offering to give THEO a 10 metre head start and THEO' refused knowing full well that Bonanza was a fat 60 year old c***.
115 Most jubilant moment in NSL History: seeing JUST relegated
116 Most saddest day: Realising straight afterwards that there will be no more guaranteed riots at the soccer
117 Second most jubilant moment: Realising that Dinamo just got itself a great Derby game.
118 Joe Kovacs threatening to beat the sh** out of 'monkey man' Anastasiadis. Anistasiadis had to hide in the change rooms for over a good hour after all of his teammates left, fearing for his life. Had to be escorted to Marths car by police and Marth driving him to safety.
119 Joe Kovacs skitzing it at Dinamo after beating up the two Jugo brothers, who played for Green Gully, in the players race. His Dad trying to stop him and him skitzing it even more, picking up a boulder and throwing it at his Dad's head.
120 Laurie Schwab's dad.
121 The old fat fart of a cameraman/reporter trying to rip of the Union Jack flag off the fence at South Melb and then
being attacked.
122 Greeks bringing Serb flags to taunt Cro's
123 Cro's waving Mako flags to taunt Greeks
124 The successful Collingwood FC/ Heildelberg merger.
125 Zoran Matic's house being called on a regular basis with his family being abused.
126 Zoran's daughter telling PHRanK over the phone that "If you were smart you wouldn't be calling here" and PHranK replying "Well I'm not". (smart)
127 Radio talkback being hijacked by d***head calling and saying silly sh** over the air.
128 Gary Ward writing a letter to Croatia saying "If you want goal, goals and more goals, I'm the man to see".
129 Melb Croatia winning the Summer Gold Cup only to have it stripped of them after the league realised that Babic was sent off during a reserve grade game.
130 Zeljko Gagula actually playing as a striker and scoring.
131 Vrzina turning strikers into defenders at Dinamo eg Gagula, Colina
132 Sitting in the grandstand at Olympic Park in Swastika formation and nobody could do a thing about it......During the World Youth Championships (WYC).
133 Melb Croatia breaking the record for most coaches in a season.
134 Melb Croatia signing John Markovski as a player, not once, but three times. He just ate the club broke.
135 Zoran Matic almost being killed after thinking that having lunch inside the Dinamo clubrooms was a good idea.
136 Melb Croatia moving a vital game against Adelaide City to North Geelong's ground when Adelaide was on top of the table and Melb Croatia needed to start winning to avoid relegation. NO SECURITY
137 The old drunk security/ground attenders at Dinamo with stubbies in their back pockets.
138 Mark Viduka scoring a hat-trick in the semi final, in the rain, and when Melb Croatia was playing with 10 men after a send off in the ten minute mark!!
139 Ivan Duzel spitting on the referee and then spitting on the linesman for good measure after being sent off in a semi final. Missed out on playing in the Knight's first winning grand final side.
140 The destruction to and from the ground during the first Knight's grand final win in Adelaide. Factories caught fire and police were beaten.
141 Joe Biskic's all time great comment "PUT BALL IN GOAL"
142 Blacktown Gate 12
143 The huge Barry 'O' chants. Everyone use to do it but most people didn't even know who Barry 'O' was.
144 A few of us changed the padlocks at a back gate at Olympic park in '93 before the World Youth Championships (WYC). It went undetected for a while, we were getting in for free, just walk up make sure no one around, open the padlock and were in. HAHAHAHA.
145 What ever happened to referee Chris Bambridge after his dubious World Cup 'goal' decision. Has he just dissappeared of the planet or living the high life in the Bahama's.
146 Certain melb Croatia players (OP&MS) smuggling flares into the ground at olympic park before GF Vs Ad city and passing them on to 'mates' waiting inside ground. Not all thugs are stupid. A few, well most of us have uni degrees so get ****ed all you coppers, officials etc.
147 Melb croatia fans pissing on the penalty spot the night before the GF against Hellas. It was the same end as that well remembered shoot-out. You can clearly see on TV the penalty spot having been re-marked. Was this a curse or just fate.
148 'Redman' & friends getting thrown out in record time (5 minutes) from a hotel in Sydney after being seen pissing out the 2nd floor window and throwing missiles at traffic below. Sprung bad.
149 'Redman' again, waking Con 'lights' up by pissing next to his bed in a $12 a night hotel room. The 'steam' from the urine sent him into a violent rage.
150 A bus driver ordering Luka to clean up his vomit from the bus aisle, he duly obliges by flopping it out and sweeping it down the aisle with his urine to the complete horror of the elderly passengers on board. They were then 'unfairly' ejected from the bus somewhere near Albury.
151 A favourite of mine is when Chris Faklaris (the U.S/ Greek star striker) scored a hat-trick against Turkey during the WYC in '93 and watching 15000 turks explode into a frenzy of anger and frustration. Sheer bliss for all of us greek-aussies in the crowd.
152 'Redman' for throwing a flare at Bonnie Ginzberg (scum jew goalie) during the pre-match warm up at the '89 WC qualifier at SFS. It missed him by mm's, he and a couple of Mosad agents then look up towards me in shock and I give them a huge zieg heil. If it had hit him well we could have been off to Italia 90 and I a ****wit/moron soccer thug would have been responsible for the greatest moment in Australian soccer history. Just imagine we were millimetres away from potentially qualifying. I (redman) would have been given 'martyr' status amongst all true fans of aussie soccer.
153 Joe Kov....bashing and then stealing the car keys off some hapless Ad city fan after melb croatia lost another GF. He then threw the keys in the yarra river. HAHAHAHAHAHA.
154 THE MASTURBATION INCIDENT- HINDMARSH STADIUM JANUARY 1998 ADELAIDE CITY v SOUTH MELBOURNE
Whilst giving Jason Petkovic his usual deserved abuse after SM had taken an early lead, JP turns around after Ad C equalise to the travelling SM fans and sticks up 3 fingers (3 titles) & gives up the chocking sign (SM's deserved status at the time-prelim final chockers) the ****ing imbecile.Well Peter K after a big drinking session in 40 degree heat charges down the terraces unzips his pants,flops out his c**k and starts jerking off in front of a stunned and suddenly quiet J Petkovic. Everyone on the terraces including Ad city fans are in complete hysterics.
155 The stupid dumb bookie at hindmarsh on the same night asks me(redman) at half time who scored SM's first goal.I tell him Panopoulos.He then starts paying Theo K who had a 'winning ticket'.We then calmly walk away after collecting. In fact Clarkson had scored SM's first goal.
Thank-you Mr Bookmaker .
156 CHICKEN MAN. Young sth melb fan around 16 was asked where he got all those flares from for an away trip to sydney. His reply was out of this world, "I stole my parents chickens and sold them and bought the flares". He is the future of Australian soccer.
157. Former NSL referee Jim Reeves jailed on child sex charges!
158. John Smith spending the last 4 hours on the train from Albury to Melbourne in the toilet, to avoid paying the fare on the Victorian leg of the journey (he had got the NSW part half-price because he was on the dole) It was the same toilet Adam had earlier clogged up with toilet
paper, and the floor was ankle deep in water/urine
159. "pith in the Yarra, we're gonna pith in the Yarra" and the horrified looks on the faces of the old couple on the other side of the river as we all stood under the bridge pissing and singing.
160. The Wollongong Train trip. Everyone talks about the Marconi bus trip but the Wollongong train trip was arguably a more successful trip. The tone was set when big Adam consumed an entire case of VB twist tops in just 90 mins on the train. Then on the way to the ground mad Martin famously sacrificed himself paratrooper style, lying across a broken piece of fencing to allow the rest of the brigade to go over the top of him to safety. Inside the ground Adam tore out a plastic seat and still with metal frame and a lump of concrete attached, hurled it from the top of the stand with a banshee-roar, narrowly missing two red-coated Wollongong officials. After the game we discovered with glee that it was bin-night and dispensed the contents of dozens of bins all over Fairy Meadow. On the train journey home, big Adam - already the star of the days proceedings, and grinning from ear to ear - tore out a number of seats and hurled them out the open door of the moving carriage. Soft-as-shite Andrew Hearts, avoiding us in the rear carriage - later reported that it was standing-room only as hoardes of people flooded the carriage in terror. "The skinheads have gone beserk!" they said.
161. I missed it, but how about Jimmy's perfect aim with the meat pie at the Brisbane GF?
162. The Chinese/Vietnamese market garden near StGeorge and the appalling dwellings that they lived in (remember we wandered in one day, and planned to pull down the supporting pillar of loosely-stacked bricks?) As it was we were content to have Adam set fire to a tract of their land
163. All of us getting ejected en masse as the Socceroos crashed to a (4-0? 4-1?) defeat vs Japan in Wollongong. We had positioned ourselves right behind the bench, hurling abuse at Eddie Thomson
164. In the mid to late 1980's when South Melbourne Hellas Soccer Club was having trouble controlling its fans, mainly the faction kwnown as 'The Hellas Hooligans-Gate 1,' some clever sod (South Melbourne committee man) had a brilliant idea: "Lets make the hard-core ringleaders official security for Middle Park Stadium to guard the inside perimeter of the ground. Once they get a taste for responsibility....they'll get respect and this should curb their wayward ways and because they're not with their mates, the problems on the terraces for the club are over."
Little did this dumb c*** know that: 'once a hooligan...always a hooligan.' Yeah, the Gate 1 thugs agreed to this opportunity. But at the first game with this new security arrangement when the first goal was scored for South Melbourne,....the 'new' security guards (in their new overcoats with club badges and 'security' emblazoned on them, were the first to charge onto the pitch and hug and lift the players causing absolute pandemonium. When the flares came flying into the arena, they would pick them up and run with them like they were olmpic torches, instead of trying to extinguish them. Sadly for Australian Soccer...this security arrangement only lasted one game.
165. Speaking 0f great security stories,in 1986-7 i think St george we running 1 short in the stewards dept before a game vs apia.We had been drinking at the club across the road for 6 hours and 1 of the boys "luton dave"to be exact was asked when we walked in if he would do it.Before you knew it we were behind the goal and dave was patrolling the perimeter as a good steward should.Remember that dave was very very pithed when you read the following.Anyway Joe Murray the
chief steward came over after 30 mins of the game 0-0 of course and asked me were the 4th steward was(our mate dave)as a nsl commisioner was at the game and had commented that all clubs had to have 4 staff on the pitch patrolling and we had only 3.We all stated that dave was out there but upon closer examination he was no where in sight.Even joe urgay said that he had seen dave walk out of the players tunnell onto the pitch.We searched everywhere along the ground circumfrence to no avail.In the end they got someone else to take over and the game finished 1-1 and we went back to the fishos club to drink more pith,presuming that dave was drunk as a c*** and must have slipped out of the ground and gone home.After about 1 hour in the club in walks dave covered in sh** and dirt.Apparantly he needed to have a sh** after 1 minute of the match and found the door of the old change rooms behind the goal(digby you know the ones)open,went in,had a crap,and then decided to lay down for a while on the filthy old players massage table in the dark .The silly c*** fell asleep blind and was found by the cartakers german shepards which used to be let loose at night in the stadium to prevent breakins.He was bailed up until rescued by mishy the old hungarian c*** caretaker...........dave what a nsl steward....
166. For example, the following anecdotal piece circa 1996/7 was always, to me, one of the best examples of the Gilligan-esque (lack of) administrative qualities diplayed by the game's administrators. The names have been changed to protect me, but I'm sure you'll get the jist.
This was pre-Carlton's admission to the NSL, but at that point hopes were high that the new club would replicate the success of Perth Glory and I was privy to a private meeting of several big knobs from Carlton, Nike and SA. After the pow-wow broke up I just happened onto a Carlton guy of the time and the Aussie Nike rep talking to SA's 'Steven Klamass', explaining quietly that Nike international were very keen to make a significant contribution to the game here, as well as getting involved at Carlton. The Nike fellow gave Klamass a business card upon which he scribbled the (very) private contact number for THE Mr Nike International, who would be in the country in the next couple of weeks and was actively soliciting some discrete contact.
About a month later or more - over a very informal lunch in Lygon Street - I was with said Carlton guy and Klamass and a couple of other forgettable bods.
"By the way," Carlton guy quietly says to Klamass.
"How did you go with THAT contact?"
You can almost see the cartoonish question marks popping up over Klamass' head.
"You know, the Nike contact...how did it go?" prompts Carlton. Klamass offers a quizzical swish of the head, before the lightbulb pops on.
"Oh, ****, I completely forgot about that," Klamass mumbles.
"Now, what did I do with that number?"
Nick, whilst the conversation above isn't quoted as word perfect, it's pretty damned close.
(Yet) Another opportunity flushed down the S-bend.
What can you say!!!
Regards,
Anonymous.
167 Probably not top 100 material, but certainly another marvellous example of the artful diplomacy employed by Soccer Australia. Did you know that a significant number of 'specially invited' interstate guests to last season's NSL awards dinner in Sydney were sent ****ing bills to cover their air fares some two or three weeks after the event and without notice? I got this from a former Socceroo team manager now based in South Aus., who was billed for his flights...ahem...even though he declined to attend the evening.
And we let these people run the ****ing game!!!
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