The obsession with all things Dutch in football in this country needs to go.
I get why we all went gaga over it after 2006 but the truth is Hiddink is Hiddink and there was only ever one of him.
What foreign origin story are you waffling on about?
Sydney FC were the brainchild of Football NSW when the NSL folded and FFA were looking for consortiums to compete in the then fledgling A-League.
Besides, at that time all of the Sydney NSL clubs when I was growing up in the 1990's were all based in the Fairfield/Bossley Park area.
I am from the outer southern suburbs.
Why would I have bothered supporting a European nationalist social club from the other side of town?
A bit early on the turps aren't you old son?
Been a football fan since 1996 albeit the English Premier League (been a Leeds fan since the George Graham era).
Had a passing interest in the NSL when one played in my local area but when they left my interest in it went with it.
Thing is it will never be the be all and end all in this country.
Even with mass immigration the game has never risen to challenge the big three sports in this country.
At the end of the day it won't matter if it's the AL or those European nationalist social clubs the game will never be No. 1...