Modern football fairytales dictate that Cinderella only gets to go to the ball once. But again, the Central Coast Mariners are A-League champions
weren’t supposed to stun Australian football, let alone their opponents, and pull a rabbit from their blue and yellow cap to keep this miraculous story going.
But then Ryan Edmondson helped spark and finish a move in the first minute of added time to equalise. Miguel Di Pizio put them ahead in the 97th minute. Then Edmondson put a bow on things in the 121st. And somehow, the Mariners had tapped a reservoir of magic and found a way to win. Again. You’re supposed to fall off when this happens, unable to fight the tide of money and resources before you’re enveloped. The success you have earned, the players you have developed, and the culture you have built are then reaped by others. The dictate of modern football is that Cinderella only gets to go to the ball once.But here we are, and, once again, Central Coast are champions of the ALM, wearing the glass slipper as the best in Australian football.
But how many sides across the history of the league could have absorbed the blows this Mariners one has and still emerged triumphant? Players, coaches, and even executives have come and gone across the past 18 months - with hardly a bountiful treasury there to replace them. Yet the silverware has continued to come in. Are the 2023-24 Mariners the best team in ALM history? Probably not. But perhaps they’re the most resolute, adaptable and pertinacious in philosophy and spirit.
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