The Melbourne City Gazette
Match28 Feb 2032
Melbourne City tear Brisbane Roar apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Brisbane Roar, and it could have been more.
Player ratings1 Mar 2032
A brace, and Justin Vidic takes the afternoon — 9.00
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Justin Vidic provided it, and the 9.00 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match28 Feb 2032
Melbourne City keep winning on the road
6 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
The dugout1 Mar 2032
Anthony Harrison keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Melbourne City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market1 Mar 2032
Only the photograph left for Tumi Bowes
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tumi Bowes will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Melbourne City the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad1 Mar 2032
A falling-out at Melbourne City
Gianni Stensness and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings1 Mar 2032
A masterclass from Araphat Mohammed
Marked 8.18 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings1 Mar 2032
Enoch Dzeble was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.19. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad1 Mar 2032
Matt Dibley-Dias falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- The dugout A satisfied Tyler Holmes
- The dugout Matt Dibley-Dias gets it from the manager
- Squad Nathan Amanatidis is no longer first choice