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Chickens coming home to roost

by Roy Hay | September 13, 2010 | Journalism, Journalism 2008 | 0 Comments

Geelong Advertiser, Thursday 24 January 2008, p. 19. As the United States home loan debacle continues to bring low major American financial houses and the Australian stock market sheds all its gains over the last two years people are understandably worried about what...

Victory collapse to Mariners

by Roy Hay | September 20, 2010 | Journalism, Journalism 2005 | 0 Comments

Melbourne Victory continued its dismal run of recent results with a two-nil loss at home to Central Coast Mariners at Olympic Park last night in front of 13,892 fans. Four home games in succession have produced no goals and three defeats. Victory welcomed back skipper...

Behind the Play: Football in Australia

by Roy Hay | September 20, 2010 | Publishing | 0 Comments

Peter Burke and June Senyard, eds, Behind the Play: Football in Australia, Maribyrnong Press, Melbourne, 2008. Contains Roy Hay and Ian Warren, ‘Who supports Melbourne Victory? A preliminary inquiry into crowd make-up and dynamics in the new A-League,’ pp....

World Cup 2006

by Roy Hay | September 20, 2010 | Football, Recent News, Statistics | 0 Comments

Click on link below for World Cup 2006 Draw and Results. WorldCupDraw2006

Bell Park’s Community Shield campaign in tatters

by Roy Hay | January 20, 2017 | Blog, Football, Journalism, Recent News | 0 Comments

Bell Park’s defence of its Geelong Community Shield is in tatters after an opening night four-nil defeat by host club Geelong Rangers at Myers Reserve on Friday night. In the early game Deakin Ducks and Surfcoast played a one-all draw. Both games were in Group A of...

Good governors of the game or dictators?

by Roy Hay | July 6, 2011 | Football, Football 2011, Journalism, Journalism 2011, Recent News | 0 Comments

Ben Buckley, John Brumby, Lucas Neil and James Merlino at the launch of another big game in Melbourne. Good governors of the game or dictators? By Roy Hay The administrative leadership of major sporting bodies comes in for a great deal of criticism these days, some of...

Victory are champs one year bottom the next

by Roy Hay | September 16, 2010 | Football, Football 2007 | 0 Comments

Geelong Advertiser, 13 August 2007, p. 31. Melbourne Victory’s poor pre-season run continued when it lost by a goal to nil to Sydney FC at Olympic Park on Saturday night. Last year’s A-League champion thus finished last in the pre-season cup. Victory was without...

Sydney women win second crown at expense of Victory

by Roy Hay | January 27, 2013 | Football, Journalism, Journalism 2013, Recent News | 0 Comments

Melbourne Victory 1 Sydney FC 3 Roy Hay Sydney FC Women reversed the result of yesterday’s A-League game when they overcame Melbourne Victory by three goals to one in the W-League Grand Final at AAMI Park on Sunday. In a high quality match of contrasting styles Sydney...

Surfcoast stuns Corio in local derby

by Roy Hay | June 19, 2011 | Football, Football 2011, Journalism, Journalism 2011, Recent News | 0 Comments

Ben le Cornu (left) of Surfcoast tries to wrong foot Liam Nelson of Corio, watched by Steve Luczo (5). Surf Coast stuns Corio in local derby By Roy Hay In a classic game of two halves, Surf Coast came back from a two-nil deficit to beat league leader Corio by three...

Is this as good as it gets?

by Roy Hay | February 9, 2011 | Football, Football 2011, Journalism, Journalism 2011 | 0 Comments

The NSW under-15s won the 1994 national championships at Kim Reserve, Altona, with a team which included Harry Kewell and Brett Emerton (front row, far right), both destined to become Socceroos. Also in that side were Michael Cunico, later playing with the Young...