Melbourne Victory 2 Newcastle Jets 1 By Roy Hay Melbourne Victory pulled off a last-minute win over a very competitive Newcastle Jets at AAMI Park on Monday night by two goals to one in front of a healthy crowd of 16,378. Ricardinho scored the winner from two metres...
The football year 2010 (Published in the Geelong Advertiser on 22 December 2010, p. 34 as 'Round ball kicks on'. By Roy Hay Melissa Barbieri of Melbourne Victory catches the ball in classic fashion from Laura Alleway (5) and Monnique Hansen Kofoed (12) of Victory and...
Melbourne Victory Women 0 Perth Glory Women 1 By Roy Hay Melbourne Victory and Perth Glory played a high quality W-League match as a curtain raiser to the A-League game at AAMI park on Saturday, with the visitor getting up by the only goal of the game. It was scored...
Melbourne Victory 2 Perth Glory 0 By Roy Hay Melbourne Victory achieved its first win in three attempts against Perth Glory in a dour struggle at AAMI Park on Saturday night by two goals to nil, but the result came at a high cost to both teams. Having just regained...
Melbourne Heart 1 Melbourne Victory 3 By Roy Hay Melbourne Victory had too much firepower for Melbourne Heart and won the second local derby by three goals to one at AAMI Park in front of 23,059 fans. This was another home game for the Heart. Josip Skoko was not...
Melbourne Heart 0 Newcastle Jets 2 By Roy Hay Melbourne Heart set out to break a seven-game run since its last victory against Newcastle Jets last night at AAMI Park, but came up short in a two-nil loss against a team which played for more than 80 minutes with ten...
Why did we not learn from our own history? By Roy Hay Recriminations will continue for some time after the failed bid to bring the World Cup to Australia, but I am just a little surprised that the Football Federation Australia did not learn just a little from the...
Melbourne Victory 3 Brisbane Roar 3 By Roy Hay In a six-goal thriller at AAMI Park, Melbourne Victory fought back from two goals down to take the lead at 3–2 deep in the second half before conceding a goal in injury time to give Brisbane Roar a share of the points....
Melbourne Heart 0 Sydney FC 0 By Roy Hay Melbourne Heart and Sydney FC drew-nil at AAMI Stadium on Saturday night. With three former Sydney players in the Heart starters it might be expected that the sides might be familiar enough to cancel each other out, but in fact...
The Global Game: A History of football in Australia. Exhibition Catalogue. Roy Hay, with an introduction by Ruth Rentschler, Paul Turner and Pamm Kellett. This is the catalogue to accompany the exhibition of photographs of the history of football (soccer) in...
Melbourne Heart 0 Adelaide United 2 By Roy Hay Adelaide United got back to winning form with a two-nil away result against Melbourne Heart at AAMI Park on Friday night. United have not had much success in Melbourne in recent years but they dominated this match from...
Melbourne Victory 2 Central Coast Mariners 2 By Roy Hay Melbourne Victory and Central Coast Mariners shared the points in a two-all draw at AAMI stadium before 9,674 fans, the lowest crowd for a home league match involving the Victory since the A-League kicked off....
Life membership of the Federation By Roy Hay As part of the settlement which saw the Victorian Soccer Federation (VSF) succeed the Victorian Amateur Soccer Football Association (VASFA) as the governing body of the game in this state in 1962, the office bearers of...
Melbourne Heart 1 Brisbane Roar 2 By Roy Hay Melbourne Heart lost a goal in the last minute of regulation time to concede a two-one home defeat to league leader Brisbane Roar at AAMI Park on Sunday night in front of 7,034 fans. With virtually a full squad to pick...