Flying Kiwis – February 18
In a season where Hearts are seriously threatening to bust up the Old Firm hold on the title, it’s Motherwell that have become the darlings of Scottish football and Elijah Just has been a big part of that.
In a season where Hearts are seriously threatening to bust up the Old Firm hold on the title, it’s Motherwell that have become the darlings of Scottish football and Elijah Just has been a big part of that.
After waiting more than half of the Championship season for a proper Flying Kiwi head to head (Crocombe vs Bindon last week), we got another one straight afterwards (Crocombe vs Cacace). Millwall versus Wrexham, two clubs challenging for playoff places.
Gather round, everyone, it’s time for a new round of Football Ferns activities. The Fernies are about to take the next step in their World Cup cycle by playing some actual World Cup Qualifiers.
If there’s one thing that this country never seems to lack, it’s goalkeepers. There’s been a goalkeeping debate every time that the All Whites have made it to the FIFA World Cup. Never lacking for glovemen.
It wasn’t going to do anyone any good for Clegg to spend another year sitting on the bench. Hence she’s left. Hence she’s signed a two-year contract with Vittsjö GIK in Sweden.
After four seasons without ever making the A-League finals, an unlikely set of circumstances contrived to present the Wellington Phoenix Women with an Olympic Games gold medallist as their new head coach.
That’s three games in a row with a goal contribution for Just, having assisted goals in each of Motherwell’s previous fixtures. The Steelmen are five points behind Celtic (3rd) and five points ahead of Hibernian (5th).
Max Crocombe was a few weeks shy of his 30th birthday when he debuted in League One with Burton Albion. Now he’s 32 years old and starting games for a Millwall team pushing for promotion from the Championship and he’s about to go to a World Cup later in the year.
For almost two months we didn’t see Libby Cacace in action at all. Even before that he was in and out of the team amidst recurring muscle injuries – the first time in his entire career that he’d been stuck with injuries, probably in part due to his lack of a preseason.
There aren’t many All Whites (or Football Ferns either, for that matter), who can claim to have had a better 2025 than Elijah Just. In fact, you can stretch that out to the last 18 months... and there’s no end in sight.
Less than six minutes into the match and Tyler Bindon had scored his first Championship goal. Leapt about three metres into the air to whallop home a header from a corner kick. Superb stuff.
After 56 games of Men’s National League football, one of the most unpredictable campaigns we’ve ever seen ended in the most predictable manner: with Auckland City lifting the trophy
Both the Women’s and Men’s National Leagues were wide open in their latter weeks only for the defending champs to swoop through and win it again. Funny how that goes.
Three weeks ago, Ben Waine was in the footballing wilderness. He was so far out of the frame at Port Vale that he hadn’t even made a matchday squad since late-August, with the exception of getting unused-subbed in an early FA Cup tie against non-league Maldon/Tiptree
Just like in the Women’s National League, the two most recent champions made it to the Men’s National League grand final. There had been wobbles along the way for both Wellington Olympic and Auckland City but…
Five losses in a row for Swansea City meant they more from anyone who could spare it, so more was what Marko Stamenic provided...
As the final round of the Men’s National League began, there were four clubs still in with a mathematical chance of qualifying for the grand final. These two clubs were at the forefront of those convos…
The Football Ferns are at a crossroads right now... in fact they’ve been stuck there for a wee while. Ever since the World Cup in 2023, they’ve been trying to figure out where they’re going having previously given absolute focus to that co-hosted tournament
There were some sweaty moments for Viking FK down the home stretch of this title challenge but when it came to the final round, needing simply to win to claim the club’s first Norwegian championship since 1991, it was never in doubt.
It’s an incredible situation that we’ve got ourselves into where four separate teams held their grand final fates in their own hands ahead of the penultimate weekend. Any combination of Western Springs, Auckland City, Wellington Olympic, or Miramar Rangers could end up in the top two