Wanderers coach Marko Rudan refused to face the media after 7-0 loss

The Western Sydney Wanderers are in full blown damage control after their record 7-0 loss to Melbourne City at AAMI Park on Tuesday night with coach Marko Rudan refusing to attend the post-match press conference to address the biggest loss in the team’s history.

Instead Rudan’s assistant Jean-Paul de Marigny was offered up as the sacrificial lamb in farcical scenes to face the music from the media.

A club spokesperson later confirmed Rudan, who recently re-signed until the end of 2026-27, had not lost his job, but gave the bizarre excuse that he couldn’t attend the press conference because he was in a team meeting at the time.

However, that alibi made little sense because there is never a set time for post-match press conferences to take place. Quite the opposite – they very much work around a coach’s availability after a game and can sometimes take up to an hour after the final…