Morgan overcome by Yellow Fever in Dunedin

A shirtless Wellington Phoenix co-owner Gareth Morgan (centre) celebrates, with other fans, his team's 1-0 win over the Melbourne Heart at Forsyth Barr Stadium yesterday, ending a month-long drought in the A-League competition. Photo by Craig Baxter
A shirtless Wellington Phoenix co-owner Gareth Morgan (centre) celebrates, with other fans, his team's 1-0 win over the Melbourne Heart at Forsyth Barr Stadium yesterday, ending a month-long drought in the A-League competition. Photo by Craig Baxter
The first victory in a month was too much for Wellington Phoenix owner Gareth Morgan, who couldn't help but join in the Nix fans' unique celebration - stripping.

The Yellow Fever traditionally remove their shirts if the team are winning with 10 minutes left to play.

It's been a long time between celebrations so this was extra special, coming after a traumatic week that featured the resignation of long-serving coach Ricki Herbert and a midweek loss to Newcastle.

But last night, the Phoenix rebounded with a 1-0 win over the Melbourne Heart at Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium.

At the Yellow Fever

I see, you mean Phoenix Yellow Fever. There is an older reader cohort that remembers such pestilence, you know: "There we leave her, we must leave her/far from where her kindred roam/At the Yellow Fever, Yellow Fever/Yellow Fever/Convalescent Home". (After 'Muses With Milligan', Decca, 1967).

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