Marco Rojas' latest nickname is a vast improvement on the chants that normally greet him when he returns to play at Wellington's Westpac Stadium.

Though the Phoenix have collected seven points from four matches, the points only paper over the cracks that have emerged.

The biggest thing to come out of the Ben Sigmund/Jeronimo Neumann controversy is that cheats continue to prosper in football, writes Michael Brown.

Phoenix coach Ricki Herbert was stunned on learning that the red card shown to central defender Ben Sigmund by referee Jarred Gillett had not been overturned.