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...
Melbourne Heart 2 Sydney FC 2 Roy Hay (Click and double click on photos below to enlarge them) In a classic game of two halves, Melbourne Heart scored two cracking goals against Sydney FC, but then conceded two to finish all square in its penultimate home and away...
Melbourne Heart 1 Wellington Phoenix 1 Roy Hay (Double click on photos below to enlarge them.) In the match which could decide its finals ambitions, Melbourne Heart took on Wellington Phoenix at AAMI Park on Saturday night. A first half full of high quality, rapid,...
Melbourne Heart 1 Central Coast Mariners 0 Roy Hay Melbourne Heart knocked off the bottom team, Gold Coast United, by a single goal last week and on Sunday night they overcame the league leader, Central Coast Mariners by the same score, and with the same goalscorer,...
Melbourne Heart 1 Gold Coast United 0 Roy Hay A late goal by substitute Eli Babalj gave Melbourne Heart a vital win in its attempt to retain its position in the top six of the A-League. Inspirational skipper Fred made his return for Heart in the match against Gold...
Melbourne Heart 0 Melbourne Victory 0 Roy Hay Melbourne Heart and Melbourne Victory played out a scoreless draw at AAMI Park on Saturday night in front of 26,395 noisy and appreciative fans. The result did neither side’s hopes of making the finals much good, but Heart...
Melbourne Heart 1 Brisbane Roar 1 Roy Hay Melbourne Heart once again matched a top-ranked opponent in Brisbane Roar and thoroughly deserved the point it took from a one-all draw at AAMI Park on Saturday night. With a little more composure near goal, Heart could have...
Melbourne Heart 0 Central Coast Mariners 1 Roy Hay In an act of grand larceny Central Coast Mariners stole the points with a last minute goal after Melbourne Heart had pounded the visitor’s goal for most of the previous ninety. Michael McGlinchy came down the right...
Melbourne Heart 1 Perth Glory 2 Roy Hay Perth Glory was good value for its two-one away win over Melbourne Heart at AAMI Park on Sunday afternoon. Kristian Sarkies started for Heart along with Jason Hoffmann and Matt Thompson in midfield. Brendan Hamill, Curtis Good,...
Melbourne Heart 1 Adelaide United 3 Roy Hay Melbourne Heart’s winning streak came to an abrupt halt when Adelaide United scored a three-one win at AAMI Park in front of 8,272 fans on Wednesday afternoon. That was the biggest home crowd for Heart since its first game...
The Smith report and the future of football Roy Hay (A shorter version of this article appeared in the Geelong Advertiser, 2 December 2011, p. 34, under the title 'Kicking football'. It also appeared on the Goal Weekly and The Football Almanac websites.) After seven...
Melbourne Heart 3 Newcastle Jets 0 Roy Hay Heart went seeking its first win of the season at home to Newcastle Jets on Saturday night at AAMI Park. After an even first half, Heart exploded into action after the hour mark and scored three unanswered goals in a stunning...
Melbourne Heart 1 Sydney FC 1 Roy Hay It was heartbreak of the Heart at AAMI Park on Saturday night when the home team thought they had the match won with an 85th minute goal from substitute Maycon, only for Nicky Carle to purloin a goal for Sydney in the fourth...
Melbourne Victory 0 Melbourne Heart 0 Roy Hay The first Melbourne derby of the 2011-12 season ended in a scoreless draw. For the third match in succession Melbourne Victory failed to score a goal, despite a plethora of chances for its high profile stars and Melbourne...
Melbourne Heart 1 Perth Glory 2 Roy Hay Melbourne Heart’s first home game against Perth Glory ended in a disappointing two-one defeat. Simon Colosimo did not come up and Brendan Hammill started on the bench so in front of young keeper Nikola Roganovic, Heart fielded...
A flare at the Melbourne Victory versus Melbourne Heart derby in January 2011 Football fans and violence: what is really going on? By Roy Hay The blogosphere has been full of vitriol these last few days since Superintendant Rod Wilson of Victoria police was reported...
Melbourne Heart fans and their banners Melbourne Heart 2 Sydney FC 2 By Roy Hay Melbourne Heart and Sydney FC rounded off their participation in the 2010–11 A-League season with a hard fought two-all draw at AAMI Park on Saturday night in front of just over 6,000...