It’s been a big party week for footballers - here’s where they’ve let their hair down and who with

An obvious “vibe” between a Demons’ bad boy and influencer Mia Fevola at a popular Melbourne nightclub has sent the rumour mill into overdrive.

Talking Chinese whispers is passé these days because of, well, racist undertones, but oh not so for Melbourne whispers.

It’s been sometime since our fair city’s night life has been back throbbing thanks to our draconian lockdowns and all that couch loafing.

But if ever there was a time to get back on the boards and out on the town for a good ol’ fashioned knees up, it is Grand Final week and the mop up after.

September is that special month where spring has sprung, footy fever is in full flight and the social calendar is loading back up.

Lunches, so many lunches, dinners, Mad Monday’s, after parties, launches and more lunches has had our city positively heaving. Heaving is the operative word, with plenty seen wobbly booted lurching out of restaurants or clubs and onto the footpaths, harking back to the days of a shirtless “Such Is Life” Ben Cousins rolling around on the street asking the fuzz to take him back to Eve nightclub.

Ben Cousins with Kelley Hayes at the 2021 Brownlow Medal. Picture: Getty

We digress.

Eve nightclub is of course no more. But our footballers have to party somewhere.

The place to be these days is Electric. The Chapel St club formerly known among Gen X and Ys as Electric Ladyland (a rip of Jimmy Hendrix’s final studio album), has had a zhuzh up and is now simply known among the party peeps as Electric.

It’s AFL’s most followed footballer, Bailey Smith’s favourite haunt.

Brendan Fevola’s influencer daughter Mia Fevola is also a regular. Which of course brings us back to the Melbourne whispers. The Snapchats were recently flying faster than the Sherrin about a frisson between the beauty blogger and Melbourne Premiership player turned badboy footballer Steven May with their vibe electric at Electric.

May of course made headlines earlier this year after brawling at fine dining Greville St restaurant Entrecote in June. Known for their hedonistic caviar bumps, the restaurant was bumping for all the wrong reasons when May and Melbourne teammate Melksham got into a biffo that spilled outside.

Demon Steven May evades Lincoln McCarthy of the Lions during the Second Semi Final match between the Melbourne and Brisbane at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on September 9. Photo Dylan Burns/AFL Photos via Getty Images

Since then May’s dating life has since been at the centre of Melbourne whispers. He was first connected to the ex wife of jockey Ben Melham, who is now on again off again dating Jamie Kah

Melham’s ex Karlie Dales laughed off any romance, saying it was all stables scuttlebutt which again is nothing surprising.

Now the Melbourne whispers have evolved from Electric to fever point, with a suggestion Fevola and May were to attend the Brownlow together, which would have made quite the story given her Carlton great dad’s track record at footy’s night of nights.

Mia Fevola with ex boyfriend Jamarra Ugle-Hagan. Picture: Instagram

Is Mia vibing with a new man?

But Mia, who has previously dated footballers Daniel Rioli and Western Bulldog’s Jamarra Ugle-Haggan, is a smart cookie with a close friend telling Page 13 this week “there is no way Mia would go to the Brownlow with him”.

May rocked up with date Sachi Dade who confessed she found the whole red carpet thing a bit weird. Turning heads in a fire engine red one-shoulder Georgia Young Couture gown with strappy heels, she did recognise St Kilda captain Jack Steele he looked slightly flummoxed.

Turns out Dade was Steele’s nurse when he was hospitalised with a wrist injury, “yeah you were a bit out of it” she giggled on the carpet.

As they say in the classics: Like sands through the hourglass, these are the days of footballers lives and so too Melbourne whispers.