South Melbourne vs Football Kingz, round 15, 2001-2002, National Soccer League (full game)

Full match of South Melbourne vs Football Kingz, round 15, 2001-2002, National Soccer League, at Lakeside Stadium.
This game is famous for the conjecture on the gentleman's agreement between South and the Kingz for Con Boutsianis not to play in this match. As noted by Alan Clark from his match report at the time:
"But Boutsianis was not to be denied his position in the centre of the spotlight from the game's first moments to the last when he was able to take an age inside the Kingz penalty-area to set up a left-foot shot which rifled high into the net for a dramatic winner.
Being on the field was enough to upset the Kingz, who he had left just a week prior. And such was the manner of his service whilst at the New Zealand club, the strike must surely have rubbed salt into the still raw Kingz' wounds.
Kingz coach Kevin Fallon was direct and to the point when he was asked about the playing of Boutsianis. "I have no comment to make on Boutsianis. Next question."
Boutsianis had been released by the Kingz after an eventful time following his move there from South Melbourne at the end of last season. Boutsianis hadn't played a single competitive minute with Kingz - he'd walked out on the club after a dispute arising within weeks of his arrival. In the transfer agreement between the two clubs, claim and counter-claim had been launched regarding whether there was a valid agreement between the clubs that he not be played in this fixture.
South believes there was no existing agreement which validly applied, and so started Boutsianis. South's justification for this was delivered to the media at the half-time interval by club lawyer and Board member Peter Mitrakis.
In an almost Joycean stream of consciousness oration in which he barely drew breath, Mitrakis' outlining of the case was labyrynthian in its direction, and related to South's view that Kingz had greviously wronged them in past dealings.
What seems to be the nub of the matter according to Mitrakis is that South provided Kingz with a written agreement Boutsianis not be played in this fixture as probably the only way South was able to convince Kingz to release Boutsianis before the fixture, that the agreement did not stand as part of the transfer arrangements as lodged with Soccer Australia, that South could be liable to Boutsianis for a breach of contract if South refused to play Boutsianis, and that Kingz breached a confidentiality provision of the agreement and entered the agreement knowing it would breach it. As a consequence, South therefore felt no obligation to leave Boutsianis out.
According to Mitrakis, South further assert that Soccer Australia could not provide them with a written reason declaring Boutsianis ineligible under Soccer Australia regulations, and that the best reason Soccer Australia could come up with - were Boutsianis to be fielded - was to charge South with bringing the game into disrepute."
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South Melbourne
Michael Petkovic, Steve Iosifidis, Mehmet Durakovic, Steve Panopoulos, Peter Buljan (Fausto DeAmicis 77), Joe Bacak, Nick Tolios, Massimo Murdocca (Radomir Sekulovski 84), Patrick Kisnorbo, Vince Lia (Paul Trimboli 77), Con Boutsianis
Goals: Bacak 27, Boutsianis 88
Football Kingz
Michael Theoklitos, Jonathon Perry, Paul Urlovic, Andrew Vlahos, Heremaia Ngata, Jeffrey Campbell (George Goutzioulis 46), John Markovski (Gerard Davis 62), Mark Burton, Robbie Hooker, Chris Jackson, Sean Douglas (Hiroshi Miyazawa 46)
Goal: Urlovic 70

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