"Police praised the behaviour of the majority of soccer fans at AAMI Park, but said the match was marred by the behaviour of "hardcore, problematic and persistent" fans, unique to football."
lol.
Go to any AFL game and I guarantee you will see at least 20 drunk bogans having fights. Australian police don't know how to deal with football crouds at all. They think heightening police presence and being tougher actually makes things better, when actuality it makes it far worse.
I've been to a hell of a lot of Victory games since moving here, and I've never felt threatened.
I didn't get to go to the GF - honestly, I'm still a little depressed at the way the Nix went out + I had other things on - but I heard the atmosphere was the best it's been in 10 years. Of course the AFL-centric media will want to take the gloss off that; this isn't some tin-foil hat conspiracy theory stuff either, it's pretty deliberate and has been going on since I moved here.
Persecution complex. We may have West Sydney tagged as the most self-important fans but they were following in the footsteps of some elements of the Victory fan base.
Plus they think he's a Sydney fan due to past history.
Of course the FFA are Sydney-centric; they're based there, most of their employees live there etc.