But he's showed in both games that he has intense pace over short distances whilst in the box with balls being played to his feet. In his first game it took him 10 minutes to leave the centre circle. Romario was never going to be the hardest worker on the pitch. At 5"6' he's amongst the shorter of players in the HAL, and yet we have been consistently failing to play the ball to his head, opting for long crosses which would be lucky to muss his hair. The worst thing has been the way Kossie and the team have responded to having him in the team. Whenever he actually got a ball to his feet he looked like scoring, only to be stopped by great defending in both games. The greatest shame isn't that he hasn't managed to get on the scoresheet in his two games. He's got two games left for the Reds, today against NZ and next friday against Newcastle. 11 Adelaide United shirt twice, against Mariners and Victory, has had less than a score of chances and netted none of them. The great experiment of bringing over one of the greatest ever players to play in the A-League is now half way through. Maybe there's others that should think about trying the same. And yet i've never had police feel the necessity to spray me with pepper spray.
I've been to 6 Melbourne games and had a great time at all of them, even when my team lost.
However, fans need to remember that the game is more important than their stupidity. They would have been praying for something bad to come out of the game, otherwise they would have needed to actually report on the football. The melbourne media is not a fan of football. Has the media exagerated the after game antics of some fans that think they are just "well 'ard?" More than likely. Without out these people all you'd have at games would be extreme fans, and this is not what the A-League needs. Of the 50,000 people there on Friday night, 43,000 of them would have been average punters, amused by the chanting and bobbing up and down of the fans at either end. That the more it becomes "family friendly" the less it becomes football. I have read Victory fans on some forums saying that the FFA should stop trying to make it a family atmosphere and allow flares and swearing etc. The game against Sydney had some elements of this, as did the game against Adelaide. The larger the crowds, the more noticable it will be. Sadly, in a crowd of that many you will always find a number of thugs and idiots. 5 of these game shave been at the Dome, and although i would still rather watch the game in a purpose built rectangular stadium that holds 50,000, the atmosphere, even in the smallest crowd of 23,000 odd, is fantastic. The curse of living in a different state to your own side is that you end up going to things simply to see football. Sadly, they still haven't sorted out their financial problems, amazing in a club that has over 11,000 members and an average crowd of almost 30,000. That Melbourne Victory have achieved this is a great achievement for a club that last year finished 7th on the table. 50,333 people rocked up at Telstra Dome to create the largest ever club crowd for a league football match in Australia on Friday night.
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