Melbourne Victory will host Jeju United Tuesday night at the Docklands looking to make a fresh start in the Asian Champions League after they were thrashed 5-1 by Japanese powerhouse club Gamba Osaka.Melbourne’s 5-1 capitulation to Gamba in matchday one of the competition was the catalyst for Ernie Merrick being disposed as Victory coach last week, and the Melbournians will be hoping that a change in coach, as well as the return of first team regulars Grant Brebner and Surat Sukha, will be...

The Melbourne Victory all but cemented a place in the finals, and did their chances of a birth in the top 4 no harm, with a character building 2-0 win against a 10-man Newcastle Jets at Etihad Stadium last night. In a week that saw Melbourne’s on-field reputation questioned, the Victory responded in the only way it knows best; the scoreboard, and so after copping flack the Navy Blues achieved their own moral victory by conceding only 3 fouls for the game, compared to Newcastle’s 15 and a...

Tuesday night’s 2-1 loss to Jeju United all but shuts the door on Melbourne Victory’s Asian Champions League hopes and with four games still remaining the Victory will be looking to at least finish third in their group.It’s not the start interim coach Mehmet Durakovic would have been hoping for after his side went up thanks to a Danny Allsopp goal in the 37th minute only to lose the lead in the 41st minute when Park Hyun-Beom scored off a set piece. The match was lost when Lee Hyun-Ho...

Accountability is a big word in football. You’ll hear commentators talk of it while calling a game. Coaches often lament their players lack thereof during a press conference and yet on the eve of the AFL semi-finals the football public has been left to question the accountability of one the games most prodigious talents, albeit not for the first time.In a year in which the AFL’s reputation has been marred by drug possession charges, booze culture, underage pregnancies and rape allegations...