Melbourne Victory 3 Newcastle Jets 2 Roy Hay Melbourne Victory looked to have defeated Newcastle Jets comfortably after taking a two-nil lead on the stroke of half-time, but had to withstand a fight-back by the visitors, which saw them draw level deep into the second...
Melbourne Heart 1 Melbourne Victory 2 Roy Hay The Melbourne derby produced one of the most dramatic finishes in the short history of the clashes between Melbourne Victory and Melbourne Heart as the former reversed the scoreline of their first encounter this season. A...
Melbourne Victory 1 Brisbane Roar 1 Roy Hay Melbourne Victory could not erase the memory of the five-nil hammering in the second round of the A-League at AAMI Park on Saturday night as it struggled to a one-all draw with a very impressive Brisbane Roar. The game was...
The Box Hill story Roy Hay (This article appeared as a Blast from the Past in Goal Weekly, 7 December 2012, p. 19.) Box Hill is one of Victoria’s oldest clubs. Or is it? The origins of many clubs are quite obscure and there is reason to doubt a number of the generally...
North Geelong Celebrations Roy Hay North Geelong Warriors celebrated 45 years since the club was founded in 1967 and twenty years since their unprecedented and unequalled victory in the Victorian Premier League in 1992. North remains the only club ever to win the VPL...
Narrow win for Melbourne Victory over Perth Glory Roy Hay In a good quality game, Melbourne Victory did just enough to take all three points with a one-nil win over Perth Glory at AAMI Park on Friday night. Both teams were short of some key players. Jacob Burns,...
Melbourne Heart 3 Newcastle Jets 3 Roy Hay Melbourne Heart threw away a two-nil lead and eventually shared the points in a three-all draw with Newcastle Jets at AAMI Park on Saturday evening. It was one of the most open games seen in Melbourne this season and some...
Melbourne Victory 2 Central Coast Mariners 2 Roy Hay Melbourne Victory and Central Coast Mariners drew two-all at Etihad Stadium on Saturday night after a first half of high quality football and second whose rhythm was disrupted by the sending off of Mariners’ Patrick...
Melbourne Heart 4 Brisbane Roar 1 Roy Hay ‘Brisbane played without heart’, said Roar coach Rado Vidosic, after his team was taken apart in a twelve-minute spell in the second half of the match with Melbourne Heart at AAMI Park on Friday. In that time Heart scored...
Melbourne Victory 3 Wellington Phoenix 2 Roy Hay Melbourne Victory kept up its winning record against Wellington Phoenix, but only just, despite getting out to a three-nil lead with only nine minutes left to play. Two goals by Kiwi international Jeremy Brockie reduced...
Melbourne Victory 1 Newcastle Jets 0 Roy Hay Melbourne Victory continued its unblemished sequence of wins over Newcastle Jets in the W-League at Simonds Stadium in Geelong on Saturday afternoon, running out victor by a goal to nil. That also meant that Victory women...
Richard Garcia (left) and Trent Sainsbury in action. Melbourne Heart 0 Central Coast Mariners 1 Roy Hay Central Coast Mariners did just enough to take all three points by virtue of a one-nil win over Melbourne Heart at AAMI stadium on Sunday. On a glorious Melbourne...
Melbourne Victory 2 Adelaide United 1 Roy Hay The 2012-13 season of the A-League looks like it will be the most competitive since the new competition kicked-off in 2005, as Melbourne Victory bounced back from two defeats to knock off league leader Adelaide United by...
Melbourne Heart 1 Wellington Phoenix 1 Roy Hay Melbourne Heart took on a Wellington Phoenix side depleted by international calls at AAMI Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The match ended all square after Heart scored an exquisite goal in the first half and the undermanned...
Melbourne Victory 1 Melbourne Heart 2 Roy Hay The keenly awaited Melbourne derby kicked-off the 2012–13 A League season at Etihad Stadium on Friday night and Melbourne Heart continued their dominance in this fixture with a deserved two-one win in front of a derby...
Australian football and the Messiah complex Roy Hay (This article appeared on Goal Weekly's website on 18 September 2012. http://www.goalweekly.com.au/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=4957:australian-football-and-the-messiah-complex&Itemid=180 ) Photo:...
Scotland 3 Australia 1 Roy Hay Scotland took on Australia in a pre-world cup qualifier friendly match at Edinburgh’s Easter Road last night. It was a pouring wet night even before the match started and it rained incessantly throughout. Both sides were below full...
(Click and double click on the photos below to enlarge them) Mexico stun Brazil to take gold Brazil 1 Mexico 2 Roy Hay Mexico pulled off the biggest upset of this footballing Olympics as they downed the favourites Brazil by two goals to one at Wembley this afternoon...