Jersey set on fire as fans turn on former favourite

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Video has emerged of Sydney FC fans burning a jersey of erstwhile nine icon Milos Ninkovic up of the derby against the Western Sydney Wanderers astatine Allianz Stadium connected Saturday night.

The Cove is Sydney FC's progressive protagonist group, who routinely march from their location pub successful Moore Park to Allianz Stadium earlier large games.

In this case, the march was halted for for the jersey of Ninkovic, erstwhile their finest player, to beryllium burned.

The Serbian superstar was beloved successful Sky Blue for astir a decade, earlier helium not lone near the nine successful acrimonious circumstances successful the off-season, but committed the cardinal misdeed of joining their arch-rivals.

Throughout the lucifer helium was booed with each interaction of the ball, and cheered whenever helium appealed for a foul that wasn't given.

Jeers turned to cheers successful the 63rd infinitesimal erstwhile helium fluffed a accidental to interruption the deadlock successful a one-on-one with Socceroos goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne.

Ninkovic had the last laughter nevertheless aft helium made the walk that led to the Wanderers scoring the winning extremity successful their 1-0 triumph successful the archetypal Sydney derby since his defection.

Sulejman Krpic enactment the cleanable done shot for Ninkovic, who took excessively agelong implicit the shot and enactment it consecutive into Redmayne's chest.

But little than 10 minutes aboriginal helium calmly slotted the shot done to Kusini Yengi, who made nary mistake.

The Wanderers past had to withstand astir 25 minutes of sustained Sydney FC unit earlier the last whistle.

Wanderers manager Marko Rudan said the jeers and animosity from the Sydney fans are what marque a derby.

"Derbies are the champion - it's elemental arsenic that. This is the original, this is the best, arsenic acold arsenic I'm concerned," helium said.

"You look astir the satellite ... we each grew up connected that. And it's important that we thatch that to the adjacent generation. Games similar (that) epitomizes what tin beryllium done if we recognize and enactment the crippled first."

Sky Blues manager Steve Corica agreed with Rudan's assessment.

"It was a choky game, similar we expected - it was physical, it was what the derbies should beryllium each about," helium said.

"Just disappointed with the goal, and the result. Obviously, they took their 1 accidental ... and we had a mates of chances that we astir apt could person done amended (with) towards the end."

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