The Sydney FC Gazette
The terraces25 Oct 2027
Anger at Sydney FC spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad25 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Craig Goodwin out for 30 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sydney FC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Takahiro Sekine in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sydney FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
Graduation day at Sydney FC
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match23 Oct 2027
Sydney FC find a way past Wellington Phoenix
Wellington Phoenix made Sydney FC work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market25 Oct 2027
One of our own: Paul Davies joins the Sydney FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Paul Davies is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market25 Oct 2027
Sydney FC promote Mark Taylor from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mark Taylor has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market25 Oct 2027
Aaron Mason steps up from the Sydney FC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aaron Mason has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market25 Oct 2027
One of our own: Jamie Turner joins the Sydney FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jamie Turner is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Player ratings Víctor Campuzano was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Player ratings Al Hassan Touré in the eights
- Squad Rhyan Grant dropped after a run of poor form