A brief story about Australian football (or soccer, if you must) fans in the 1990s before the A-League existed because if you don’t know your history you repeat the same mistakes

Matthew Hall
12 min readDec 20, 2022
Spectators invade the pitch during an A-League match in Melbourne in 2022 but first… let’s go back 24 years and learn a bit of history…

Sydney/Zagreb 1999

It might be a muggy, wet, January Sunday afternoon in Sydney but the 30 or so Perth Glory fans, having traipsed across the continent to watch a…

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