A-League final: No shame in defeat for Western Sydney Wanderers

By Michael Cockerill
Updated May 7 2016 - 10:13am, first published May 2 2016 - 7:06am
Scott Neville of the Wanderers is dejected after his side lost the A-League title to Adelaide United in Adelaide on Sunday. Photo: Daniel Kalisz
Scott Neville of the Wanderers is dejected after his side lost the A-League title to Adelaide United in Adelaide on Sunday. Photo: Daniel Kalisz
Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Kearny Baccus, Dimas and Scott Neville of the Wanderers after the final. Photo: Daniel Kalisz
Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Kearny Baccus, Dimas and Scott Neville of the Wanderers after the final. Photo: Daniel Kalisz

At half-time in the grand final, you're wondering who can pull this one out of the fire for Western Sydney Wanderers. No one, as it happened, although at one stage Scott Neville loomed as the most unlikely saviour. Thus the Adelaide Oval crowd – or at least 90 per cent of the 50,000 who showed up – got what they came for.