Australian football great Josip Biskic will present the Joe Marston medal at Sunday’s A-League 2021 Grand Final between Melbourne City FC and Sydney FC at AAMI Park.
Biskic, who won the Joe Marston medal in 1990/91 after Melbourne Knights’ penalty shoot-out loss to South Melbourne and claimed the Johnny Warren medal the following season, will award the medal to the player of the match in the AAMI Park clash in the official post-match ceremony.
IT all began on a freezing winter’s evening 11 years ago – for me, and for the club I would fall in love with.
Sunday’s much-anticipated Grand Final between Melbourne City and Sydney FC promises to be a fitting conclusion to one of the most competitive seasons in the competition’s 16-year history.
For City, my team, it offers a reward for the investment and commitment the club’s owners have put in since taking over in 2014.
Every day this week, commentator Simon Hill has looked at some of the key grand final performances over the years.
Here he picks his favourite moments from the 15 occasions he has called a grand final.
“That decision is what everyone remembers,” says Mathew Cheeseman, and he’s right – a penalty in the 94th minute of a grand final to win the game tends to stick in the memory.
That it was a fiercely contested decision, and was decried as wrong by many observers initially, just added to the significance of the moment – never mind the fact that ultimately it would be proved spot on.
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