Jump to content
Melbourne Football

What Australian football team are the bad boys of the league?


Recommended Posts

I would have said Melbourne Victory and Western Sydney Wanderers but officialdom cracked down on the fans a few years ago so things are quite tame these days. Although I noticed that Melbourne City's Gomulka is getting a reputation from opposition fans for being physical enough but not getting yellow carded. You would certainly know that you have been tackled by Gomulka.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I don't think there's any club that falls into that category. There have been players who have been noted as "divers," that is feigning a foul to gain advantage from a subsequent free kick, but I'm not sure that you can put a "dirty" label on any one club. Melbourne Victory had the player once labelled "the most feared in English football" and who ended the career of Melbourne Heart's Adrian Zahra, and his own as a player, by the worst tackle I've ever seen, but I don't think it's fair to put a "dirty" label on Victory as such.

Fan behaviour is a completely different beast.

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 9 months later...
On 15/06/2022 at 6:42 AM, NewConvert said:

I would have said Melbourne Victory and Western Sydney Wanderers but officialdom cracked down on the fans a few years ago so things are quite tame these days. Although I noticed that Melbourne City's Gomulka is getting a reputation from opposition fans for being physical enough but not getting yellow carded. You would certainly know that you have been tackled by Gomulka.

This comment aged well given the antics at the Melb derby.

  • Haha 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

 Share

×
×
  • Create New...