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City's money can't disguise that they simply weren't good enough
Simply not good enough when the crunch came.
Michael Lynch, The Age's expert on soccer, has had extensive experience of high level journalism in the UK and Australia. Michael has covered the Socceroos through Asia, Europe and South America in their past three World Cup campaigns. He has also reported on Grands Prix and top class motor sport from Asia and Europe. He has won several national media awards for both sports and industry journalism.
Simply not good enough when the crunch came.
The realisation only dawned on Tim Cahill as he sat in the AAMI Park dressing room and contemplated Melbourne City's A-League finals defeat by Perth.
A-League's richest and best-resourced club crashed out of the finals after a 2-0 loss to Perth Glory.
Rashid Mahazi had to grow up quickly.
The Melbourne City coach believes his team's ability to change formation and structure could hold the key.
Dignity of the office? There isn't much of that where FFA chairman Steven Lowy and his CEO David Gallop are concerned these days.
When looking to pick an A-League team of the season it's tempting just to stick in the whole of the Sydney first XI.
When Michael Jakobsen finally shrugged off the long-running calf injury that kept him out of the Melbourne City line up for eight weeks, coach Michael Valkanis could hardly disguise his relief.
Craig Williams' failure to win his appeal against an eight-meeting suspension on Wednesday morning has cost him the chance of a group one ride aboard Sydney Cup favourite Big Duke at Randwick this weekend.
It's been called the most bizarre match in the A-League's 12-year history, and Socceroos veteran Tim Cahill isn't arguing.
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