Marc Fennell charts the rise of the Western Sydney Wanderers, a ragtag Aussie team whose passionate and sometimes contro | dG1fd2FPUS0wUFUtdmM
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00:00 Supporting football is a visceral relationship.
00:03 If you're not one of us, you can f*** right off.
00:06 Their fans...
00:09 Just speeding up alongside the bus.
00:10 Swerved in front of the bus.
00:13 Like, "Ahh!"
00:14 Boom. "Holy s***."
00:15 And so then it becomes very apparent,
00:17 "This is not an accident.
00:19 "They've done this on purpose to delay the bus."
00:21 These guys must be worried about us if this is what they're doing.
00:23 It was honestly just bizarre.
00:26 What they didn't realise is how much we thrive on that.
00:30 (LAUGHS)
00:31 Bring it on, motherf***ers!
00:33 We have people from all over the planet,
00:37 but this is where we've all become one.
00:40 There's a lot of Western Sydney.
00:42 No-one expected this.
00:43 We were definitely viewed as...as rejects.
00:47 The unwanted FC.
00:49 They didn't even have proper training facilities at the beginning,
00:51 and it was called The Wanderers.
00:53 Western Sydney Wanderers, yes.
00:56 To me, they are two games.
01:01 One, that the players are playing there.
01:03 One of the most magnificent stories in the history
01:05 of not just Australian football, but Australian sport.
01:08 And then there's the other one, that it's fans.
01:11 Never seen anything like this.
01:12 Every background under the sun.
01:14 Chanting and jumping up and down.
01:16 I felt that I belonged somewhere.
01:18 There was a lady who used to hand out lozenges to them
01:21 so they could keep going.
01:22 This is a chance to say that this belongs to me,
01:25 like, this belongs to us.
01:26 Let's go. Let's go now.
01:27 And all of a sudden, it went from a sports story to a crime story,
01:33 and it went from the back page to the front page.
01:35 I personally have been pushed around by the police.
01:38 Purpose-running young kids.
01:40 Is that really necessary?
01:41 It was only a matter of time before someone was killed.
01:45 They've been vilified.
01:46 Who are you?
01:46 There's a guy just screaming at me.
01:48 Gunfire.
01:50 Lasers hitting us in the face.
01:52 Drama every step of the way.
01:53 Everyone hold on, because this is going on a ride
01:57 that no one's going to believe.
01:59 (SIREN WAILING)
02:01 (MUSIC PLAYING)
02:03 (MUSIC STOPS)
02:05 (dramatic music)
02:08 [BLANK_AUDIO]