MVFC Blog

Around this time last year, we had won the A-League. Well, at least we knew we were going to finish top of the ladder.
One year later, we know we’re not going to the finals. Sydney FC’s win over the Central Coast Mariners put them into 4th place, a solid 7 points ahead of us.
Meanwhile, we’re […]

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“Deja vu” was the phrase used earlier this week in The World Game to describe the Melbourne Victory’s season. Quite right. Those who remember the first season will remember how Melbourne started out with a series of draws and a loss, before finally nailing its first win in an Olympic Park match with the Newcastle […]

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According to The Whistleblower at Fox Sports, Ernie Merrick rang Fox commentator Simon Hill after last Friday’s win against the Queensland Roar. Supposedly, the Melbourne Victory coach had a go at Hill for dubbing Melbourne’s first win of the season as “unconvincing”.
It’s hard to come to any conclusions about what exactly was said by Merrick […]

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Ernie Merrick talked to the press last week about how the Patafta-signing came about in a rather, well, unorthodox fashion. It all began at Sydney FC’s match against the Urawa Red Diamonds in March:
“I went and got my ticket and sat down at the game, and I sat next to this very attractive young girl […]

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It’s official: Carlos Hernandez is coming to Melbourne
The Fox (as he is known in Costa Rica) will be filling the void left by Fred’s departure. He has big shoes to fill, but it sounds like he has the feet to fill them. Ernie Merrick says he’s “a player of enormous pedigree who is still yet […]

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