Post by Aliti on Sept 24, 2010 14:06:33 GMT 10
I have recieved an E-mail at my office from various ppl supporting diff teams they know me very well as a passionate Sydney Olympic Supporter and few of us we wanted to relieve NSL wackey moments through the years.
* It was a cup game and during the warm up before the game, Branko Milosevic who was playing for Olympic had a shot at goal and missed and smashed this old guy walking behind the goal. He was out for the count..... Branko went over to him and apologies. I don't know if anyone remembers how hard his shots were.
*I was a big Wolves fan and I remember in about 2000 they beat Newcastle 9-4 (and no, that's not a typo!). I would have imagined the defenders of both teams might have copped a roasting at the following training sessions! I believe HAKOA's own Andy Harper was up front for Newcastle that day and I reckon he would have had a long, cold shower after that one....
Another moment I remember was from watching the recap show that used to be on Optus Vision. Eastern Pride (formerly Gippsland Falcons, formerly Morwell Falcons) had a home game at their pov ground one afternoon. They moved the kick-off time forward a few hours for some reason and didn't advertise it particularly well, because there was footage on this recap show of heaps of people rocking up to the ground after the game had finished. I haven't looked over that 'ozfootball' website well enough to get the crowd figure for that game, but I believe it was in the low-mid hundreds.
*spirit v marconi at marconi 2002-2003
and the donut stand in the corner caught on flames, that was hilarious
*Paulene Hanson visiting Marconi and walking around the ground was definately a "WTF!" moment.
Particularly when Matty draped a Spirit scarf around her.
*George Souris bring the ball out of defense at Marconi by juggling the ball and doing his calf!
*One moment that comes to mind was in the Breakers last season. Leading up to a home game against Parra, it was pissing down in Newy all week. It cleared up the day before the game and they flew in a helicopter to dry out the pitch.
Anyway, the officials checked the pitch and said it was suitable for the game to be played on. Got into the ground around 6.30 that night and everything seemed fine. Until the ref saw the field and said there was no way the game would be played and called the game off, despite 2000 people being in the ground at the time. I knew something was up and it was eventually called off. Only to be re-scheduled a few weeks and Andy Harper missed 2 penalties to lose 1-0 and miss out on the playoffs.
*many a moon ago down at wollongong: andreas the legend hugging my old man when Olympic scored a last minute winner. Pity we were actually cheering for the wolves.
*at the Spirit: Nicola Berti. nuff said
* at olympic: pre game fireworks which started landing on the players as they lined up for the national anthem. Emerton mustve jumped 10-feet in the air.
*all the mascots - the giant tomato, the wolf, the scrawny power guy, the lion, the stallion
*belmore oval: the fellas who made the 'bankrobber' sign and flashed it up when Boutsi was playing
* at leichardt oval: this old croat guy yelling out 'you serbian pig farmer' when olympic scored (a 'had to be there' moment)
*mac terrace singing who ate all the pies when this fat guy walked by. I'm sure someone will remember this. The guy was so cut.
*anytime the spirit supporters would yell out 'au-stra-li-a au-stra-li-a' against the croats.
*spirit supporters getting maced by the coppers at Brandon park for no real reason
* up watching olympic vs newcastle finals game in Newcastle: this Greek fella yelling out ALL game "go back to eathquake" and "destitute".
*Ransford Beneni (sp?) - playing for the knights. Injured all the time! I remember one time he came back from 6 week injury and like within 3 minutes he had head-butted a goalpost and got stretchered off.
*Another one I remember was the 'Chase the Wolf' at half time during Wollongong games. It basically involved all the kids in the crowd lining up at one end of the field and chasing after the wolf mascot when it ran onto the field. The idea was to rip his tail off and whoever did won a prize. There used to always be a handful of 'kids' that were way bigger than the rest and tracked him down pretty quickly.
One time there were more than a few bigger kids that got near wolf pretty quickly. One got the tail and the rest just jumped on top of the poor bloke. Of course, all the latecomers (and there were a LOT) 'stacked on' the tailless wolf. Reinforcements had to be called to scrape the carcass of the wolf off the field!
From then on they brought in rules, like under 10s only and another one limiting the number of people that could chase (/hunt) the wolf. And Wolfy was always accompanied by 'minders' after that, funnily enough...
*1. Jason Bennett getting hit in the head by a quickly pitched softball while warming up for the Breakers. There was a softball pitching display as part of pre-match demonstration. A ball missed the gloveman and went straight into's Bennett head. He didn't play the match. I have never seen Kosmina (then Breakers coach) go off so much
*2. The jazz band at Parramatta Stadium behind the goals. Looking at Bobby Catlin trying to bark instructions while this band was playing five metres behind him.
*3. The Rowdies getting the "Julian Farrell, what a wanker" chant going at home versus the Marconi supporters. The Marconi then turned around and started chanting this to Julian themselves
*4. Clayton Zane scoring the winner for the Breakers. He was already on a yellow card. After he scored his took his shirt off, ran to the rowdies and then ran around half the parimeter of the field waving his shirt. He didn't not look at the ref once and ran into the player's tunnel knowing he would be getting a second yellow.
*5. Being absolutely smashed at Belmore being with about twenty other rowdies. When Olympic scored the whole hill rushed us and was waving all sorts of shit in my face. I was so pissed that it was a surreal image.
*6. Giving Kalac so much shit during a game once at Breakers Stadium that he turned around and started abusing the Rowdies. About a minute later he took an air swing from a back pass and Rod Brown zipped in and scored. He copped even more shit.
*7. Alex Moriera earning a penalty for Calton in front of the Rowdies. All the Rowdies were at the fence giving him so shit that he missed!
Scariest moment
- Having a guy pull a knife with a swastika on it at us at edensor park once
*The rocket flare being let off by Knights fans on kickoff of the grand final 1992.
*The hole in the net which the sth melb player hit and went through with
the first finally given goal in the marconi semi 1994.
*Andrew Bernal slapping Angry in the face, then being hit by 2 glasses of scotch
in the eyes by the 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.
*Olympic scoring 2 injury time goals in the 1995 sydney united match
and the 15 minute pitch invasion that followed.
*Preston - sydney olympic riots at st george stadium late 80s early 90s
*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.
*Kim Talidoras saying John Holmes I mean Ian Holmes on on the ball
*A young Mark Viduka, standing in bay23 before he was famous, ripping out seats with everyone after we equalised against Argentina.
*I remember a Syd United v Marconi game... big local derby with 12k there... and a brawl broke out... ended up with Francis giving Branko a right hook
*what about nick meredith for olympic advertsising a greek newspaper with texter in the back of his head...........the byma i think it was
may i add , that was money well spent , meredith was scoring bombs that year
*greatest nsl moment - how cheap the beers were at the club next to belmore with free snooker!
*The Marconi Stallion doing a bit of a prance around the field before this Croatian thug threw a firecracker at it, making it buck so much its rider got thrown up. Security tried to take the Cro away, but he belted them in the head.
*One day at Parramatta Stadium where the whole Bob Stand got chucked out. CUNTstable Ian Campbell of the Parramatta police warned me that if any one of us swore we'd go. I marched back in and yelled out "If anyone says F/uck or Sh/it they are out!" Everyone cracked up. I started walking before the goons could grapple me. We ended the day singing from outside the ground. And ended it off by having a food riot at Nth Parra Maccas with the Parra Power fans. Whole burgers were being ditched at each other; it was mega funny!
* went to see red star vs maconi at marconi a few years ago in a tour match
the whole core board end was full of red star fans
even before kick off there were 10-15 flares let off
security came down and made them leave their seats and they let them all come back in to their same seats but they body searched all of them one by one as they went back in
after less than 2 minutes there was another barrage of flares
security and teh cops gave up and let them do what ever they wanted
not only did they have flares but they had crackers that were so big that when they threw them on the field they were blowing little divots in the grass
*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.
*Mad Martin leaping off the 20ft tv tower at St george staduim straight onto the ground
*St george fan Billy the fish, on the pitch before a NSL game,with can of VB in hand,warming up with the players
*The infamous St george Marconi away bus trip of which
only 13 of the 17 who set out returned.
*Zoran matic public speaking
*Perth glory losing the title after being 3-0 up at half time in front of 45000plus home fans
*The playing of the German anthem before the israel oz game in 86 in Melbourne!!!
*1991 GF in melb,the knights had 3 shots to win the title and missed all 3,
subsequently losing the shootout. useless C&%ts
*Preston-Hellas riots
* Hellas-Knights riots
*Marconi v Spirit (can't remember which year, Labbo was still in charge) - Mac Terrace sorted a coach, pciked us up from a pub on Parramatta Rd, end of the game comes and we are being shepherded around the ground to our coach by security. Someone sees Frank Labbozetta and calls out that his brother is (something along the lines of) a corrupt c**t, next thing wannabe mafia security are piling in and we are escorted by dobermans or rottweilers (can't remember which) to our coach, downside was I was thrown to the ground by one of the pricks to be used at dinner for his dog. - Ahh the NSL, what a fun time that was.
* "Inside Soccer" and mad Lou. The greatest football magazine ever!! The Awarttife porn shots and the Ivan "dumb c**t" Kelic issues were absolute classics.
* Olympic's fizzer fireworks as after match entertainment at Leichardt Oval. The fuse is lit - the fat bastard runs away - the fireworks hiss, spit spurts, flush and fizzle into a mess of smoking failure. Classic!
* Olympic half time entertainment of "old boys' V "media". Somehow Andrea scammed his way onto the "old boys" team and copped chants of "you blind bastard" - whereas on the "media" team Mike Cockerill copped "One Team League Mike" chants.
*Olympic pre match entertainment at St George Stadium with yet another "old boys" match and yet again Andrea scammed his way on to the pitch. Comes on as an interchange and immediately cops a ball to the face smashing his glasses leaving him as blind as a bat and staggering around the pitch not knowing where he is or what to do.
* Marconi beating Olympic 7-0.
* Marconi's "goody-two-shoes" supporters setting off a flare, setting fire to the grandstand at Parramatta Stadium and the subsequent pitch invasion to escape the fire
* The laughter around the ground every time Olympic announced crowd figures. I'm sure the taxman believed them because the crowd didn't
* The subterfuge to stash the flares at Olympic Park and the subsequent flare barrage
* Liam Reddy's KO punch
Great Medical Emergencies at Olympic matches:
#1 - Pre technology: Player down injured and two fat bastards run on carrying the stretcher but as they run across the pitch the stretcher is slowly disintegrating leaving a trail of broken stretcher parts behind them - when the get to the injured player all they have left is two sticks.
#2 - Post technology: Player down injured at Shark Park and the little cart drives out, player is successfully placed on stretcher and loaded onto cart, driver puts cart into reverse and backs straight into another player.
remember a young Spit supporter parading in front of the hill with "Northern Spirit" spelt out in Greek. She copped some (good natured) abuse that night
*The refereeing of Con Diomis
You always got your moneys' worth.
The 4th Official would hold up +2 minutes of extra time to be added on...
Con would blow the final whistle about 20 minutes later.
*Brad Maloney Being Inexplicably booked, by everoynes favourite referee, Matthew Breeze, For making a clearance which sailed over the old family stand
*A Spirit fan slapping one of the syd utd players in the face when he was being congratulated by croat fans on the fence. (player was bilokapic)
Paul trimbolli stacking it and cutting his knee on one of those lowcut advertisement sideboards at leichardt. He was eventually substituted and i believe olympic ended up winning that game
* It was a cup game and during the warm up before the game, Branko Milosevic who was playing for Olympic had a shot at goal and missed and smashed this old guy walking behind the goal. He was out for the count..... Branko went over to him and apologies. I don't know if anyone remembers how hard his shots were.
*I was a big Wolves fan and I remember in about 2000 they beat Newcastle 9-4 (and no, that's not a typo!). I would have imagined the defenders of both teams might have copped a roasting at the following training sessions! I believe HAKOA's own Andy Harper was up front for Newcastle that day and I reckon he would have had a long, cold shower after that one....
Another moment I remember was from watching the recap show that used to be on Optus Vision. Eastern Pride (formerly Gippsland Falcons, formerly Morwell Falcons) had a home game at their pov ground one afternoon. They moved the kick-off time forward a few hours for some reason and didn't advertise it particularly well, because there was footage on this recap show of heaps of people rocking up to the ground after the game had finished. I haven't looked over that 'ozfootball' website well enough to get the crowd figure for that game, but I believe it was in the low-mid hundreds.
*spirit v marconi at marconi 2002-2003
and the donut stand in the corner caught on flames, that was hilarious
*Paulene Hanson visiting Marconi and walking around the ground was definately a "WTF!" moment.
Particularly when Matty draped a Spirit scarf around her.
*George Souris bring the ball out of defense at Marconi by juggling the ball and doing his calf!
*One moment that comes to mind was in the Breakers last season. Leading up to a home game against Parra, it was pissing down in Newy all week. It cleared up the day before the game and they flew in a helicopter to dry out the pitch.
Anyway, the officials checked the pitch and said it was suitable for the game to be played on. Got into the ground around 6.30 that night and everything seemed fine. Until the ref saw the field and said there was no way the game would be played and called the game off, despite 2000 people being in the ground at the time. I knew something was up and it was eventually called off. Only to be re-scheduled a few weeks and Andy Harper missed 2 penalties to lose 1-0 and miss out on the playoffs.
*many a moon ago down at wollongong: andreas the legend hugging my old man when Olympic scored a last minute winner. Pity we were actually cheering for the wolves.
*at the Spirit: Nicola Berti. nuff said
* at olympic: pre game fireworks which started landing on the players as they lined up for the national anthem. Emerton mustve jumped 10-feet in the air.
*all the mascots - the giant tomato, the wolf, the scrawny power guy, the lion, the stallion
*belmore oval: the fellas who made the 'bankrobber' sign and flashed it up when Boutsi was playing
* at leichardt oval: this old croat guy yelling out 'you serbian pig farmer' when olympic scored (a 'had to be there' moment)
*mac terrace singing who ate all the pies when this fat guy walked by. I'm sure someone will remember this. The guy was so cut.
*anytime the spirit supporters would yell out 'au-stra-li-a au-stra-li-a' against the croats.
*spirit supporters getting maced by the coppers at Brandon park for no real reason
* up watching olympic vs newcastle finals game in Newcastle: this Greek fella yelling out ALL game "go back to eathquake" and "destitute".
*Ransford Beneni (sp?) - playing for the knights. Injured all the time! I remember one time he came back from 6 week injury and like within 3 minutes he had head-butted a goalpost and got stretchered off.
*Another one I remember was the 'Chase the Wolf' at half time during Wollongong games. It basically involved all the kids in the crowd lining up at one end of the field and chasing after the wolf mascot when it ran onto the field. The idea was to rip his tail off and whoever did won a prize. There used to always be a handful of 'kids' that were way bigger than the rest and tracked him down pretty quickly.
One time there were more than a few bigger kids that got near wolf pretty quickly. One got the tail and the rest just jumped on top of the poor bloke. Of course, all the latecomers (and there were a LOT) 'stacked on' the tailless wolf. Reinforcements had to be called to scrape the carcass of the wolf off the field!
From then on they brought in rules, like under 10s only and another one limiting the number of people that could chase (/hunt) the wolf. And Wolfy was always accompanied by 'minders' after that, funnily enough...
*1. Jason Bennett getting hit in the head by a quickly pitched softball while warming up for the Breakers. There was a softball pitching display as part of pre-match demonstration. A ball missed the gloveman and went straight into's Bennett head. He didn't play the match. I have never seen Kosmina (then Breakers coach) go off so much
*2. The jazz band at Parramatta Stadium behind the goals. Looking at Bobby Catlin trying to bark instructions while this band was playing five metres behind him.
*3. The Rowdies getting the "Julian Farrell, what a wanker" chant going at home versus the Marconi supporters. The Marconi then turned around and started chanting this to Julian themselves
*4. Clayton Zane scoring the winner for the Breakers. He was already on a yellow card. After he scored his took his shirt off, ran to the rowdies and then ran around half the parimeter of the field waving his shirt. He didn't not look at the ref once and ran into the player's tunnel knowing he would be getting a second yellow.
*5. Being absolutely smashed at Belmore being with about twenty other rowdies. When Olympic scored the whole hill rushed us and was waving all sorts of shit in my face. I was so pissed that it was a surreal image.
*6. Giving Kalac so much shit during a game once at Breakers Stadium that he turned around and started abusing the Rowdies. About a minute later he took an air swing from a back pass and Rod Brown zipped in and scored. He copped even more shit.
*7. Alex Moriera earning a penalty for Calton in front of the Rowdies. All the Rowdies were at the fence giving him so shit that he missed!
Scariest moment
- Having a guy pull a knife with a swastika on it at us at edensor park once
*The rocket flare being let off by Knights fans on kickoff of the grand final 1992.
*The hole in the net which the sth melb player hit and went through with
the first finally given goal in the marconi semi 1994.
*Andrew Bernal slapping Angry in the face, then being hit by 2 glasses of scotch
in the eyes by the 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.
*Olympic scoring 2 injury time goals in the 1995 sydney united match
and the 15 minute pitch invasion that followed.
*Preston - sydney olympic riots at st george stadium late 80s early 90s
*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.
*Kim Talidoras saying John Holmes I mean Ian Holmes on on the ball
*A young Mark Viduka, standing in bay23 before he was famous, ripping out seats with everyone after we equalised against Argentina.
*I remember a Syd United v Marconi game... big local derby with 12k there... and a brawl broke out... ended up with Francis giving Branko a right hook
*what about nick meredith for olympic advertsising a greek newspaper with texter in the back of his head...........the byma i think it was
may i add , that was money well spent , meredith was scoring bombs that year
*greatest nsl moment - how cheap the beers were at the club next to belmore with free snooker!
*The Marconi Stallion doing a bit of a prance around the field before this Croatian thug threw a firecracker at it, making it buck so much its rider got thrown up. Security tried to take the Cro away, but he belted them in the head.
*One day at Parramatta Stadium where the whole Bob Stand got chucked out. CUNTstable Ian Campbell of the Parramatta police warned me that if any one of us swore we'd go. I marched back in and yelled out "If anyone says F/uck or Sh/it they are out!" Everyone cracked up. I started walking before the goons could grapple me. We ended the day singing from outside the ground. And ended it off by having a food riot at Nth Parra Maccas with the Parra Power fans. Whole burgers were being ditched at each other; it was mega funny!
* went to see red star vs maconi at marconi a few years ago in a tour match
the whole core board end was full of red star fans
even before kick off there were 10-15 flares let off
security came down and made them leave their seats and they let them all come back in to their same seats but they body searched all of them one by one as they went back in
after less than 2 minutes there was another barrage of flares
security and teh cops gave up and let them do what ever they wanted
not only did they have flares but they had crackers that were so big that when they threw them on the field they were blowing little divots in the grass
*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.
*Mad Martin leaping off the 20ft tv tower at St george staduim straight onto the ground
*St george fan Billy the fish, on the pitch before a NSL game,with can of VB in hand,warming up with the players
*The infamous St george Marconi away bus trip of which
only 13 of the 17 who set out returned.
*Zoran matic public speaking
*Perth glory losing the title after being 3-0 up at half time in front of 45000plus home fans
*The playing of the German anthem before the israel oz game in 86 in Melbourne!!!
*1991 GF in melb,the knights had 3 shots to win the title and missed all 3,
subsequently losing the shootout. useless C&%ts
*Preston-Hellas riots
* Hellas-Knights riots
*Marconi v Spirit (can't remember which year, Labbo was still in charge) - Mac Terrace sorted a coach, pciked us up from a pub on Parramatta Rd, end of the game comes and we are being shepherded around the ground to our coach by security. Someone sees Frank Labbozetta and calls out that his brother is (something along the lines of) a corrupt c**t, next thing wannabe mafia security are piling in and we are escorted by dobermans or rottweilers (can't remember which) to our coach, downside was I was thrown to the ground by one of the pricks to be used at dinner for his dog. - Ahh the NSL, what a fun time that was.
* "Inside Soccer" and mad Lou. The greatest football magazine ever!! The Awarttife porn shots and the Ivan "dumb c**t" Kelic issues were absolute classics.
* Olympic's fizzer fireworks as after match entertainment at Leichardt Oval. The fuse is lit - the fat bastard runs away - the fireworks hiss, spit spurts, flush and fizzle into a mess of smoking failure. Classic!
* Olympic half time entertainment of "old boys' V "media". Somehow Andrea scammed his way onto the "old boys" team and copped chants of "you blind bastard" - whereas on the "media" team Mike Cockerill copped "One Team League Mike" chants.
*Olympic pre match entertainment at St George Stadium with yet another "old boys" match and yet again Andrea scammed his way on to the pitch. Comes on as an interchange and immediately cops a ball to the face smashing his glasses leaving him as blind as a bat and staggering around the pitch not knowing where he is or what to do.
* Marconi beating Olympic 7-0.
* Marconi's "goody-two-shoes" supporters setting off a flare, setting fire to the grandstand at Parramatta Stadium and the subsequent pitch invasion to escape the fire
* The laughter around the ground every time Olympic announced crowd figures. I'm sure the taxman believed them because the crowd didn't
* The subterfuge to stash the flares at Olympic Park and the subsequent flare barrage
* Liam Reddy's KO punch
Great Medical Emergencies at Olympic matches:
#1 - Pre technology: Player down injured and two fat bastards run on carrying the stretcher but as they run across the pitch the stretcher is slowly disintegrating leaving a trail of broken stretcher parts behind them - when the get to the injured player all they have left is two sticks.
#2 - Post technology: Player down injured at Shark Park and the little cart drives out, player is successfully placed on stretcher and loaded onto cart, driver puts cart into reverse and backs straight into another player.
remember a young Spit supporter parading in front of the hill with "Northern Spirit" spelt out in Greek. She copped some (good natured) abuse that night
*The refereeing of Con Diomis
You always got your moneys' worth.
The 4th Official would hold up +2 minutes of extra time to be added on...
Con would blow the final whistle about 20 minutes later.
*Brad Maloney Being Inexplicably booked, by everoynes favourite referee, Matthew Breeze, For making a clearance which sailed over the old family stand
*A Spirit fan slapping one of the syd utd players in the face when he was being congratulated by croat fans on the fence. (player was bilokapic)
Paul trimbolli stacking it and cutting his knee on one of those lowcut advertisement sideboards at leichardt. He was eventually substituted and i believe olympic ended up winning that game
