When City Football Group took over Melbourne Heart it was stated at the time the club wouldn’t become a mini Manchester City. Almost three years to the day of the takeover you begin to understand those words were simply just that, words. You look at different facets of our football club and you begin to realise how quickly City Football Group were able to transform Melbourne Heart from a football club (a struggling one at that) attempting to establish community links, and build a small but loyal supporter base into another franchise on the other side of the world. Let’s not kid ourselves into believing Melbourne Heart would be going along nicely without the City Football Group. Without them there would be no decent training facility, no women’s team, no FFA Cup, no Bruno Fornaroli, and no Timmy Cahill. City Football Group rescued my football club and I am grateful for that, but when you look at the current state of affairs you could also argue City Football Group killed off my club and build one of their franchises straight over the burning embers of Melbourne Heart. City Football Group have invested millions into this club (Franchise) both on and [...]