Over the weekend, the coach of the New Zealand national football team spoke to some newspaper and went on some radio programme and blasted the state of the game in the country in which he is employed.
“I thought he had great style and movement. He’s a young cat who’ll make mistakes. I don’t want to put any pressure on him but he reminds me of Cecil the Lion.” – Robert Martinez
There's nothing that reminds us why we love the game more than the third round of the FA Cup.
The A-League's leaders got shafted by the ref and our Wellington Phoenix snuck through a tricky encounter with a 0-0 draw. Chur.
“It’s amazing. When you take a good player out of your team, what was looking like not such a good player suddenly becomes a great player”
Apparently you only get a yellow card for headbutts these days? Don't let that overshadow a very average display from Wellington Phoenix.
Their own manager may not buy them as title contenders, but the Wildcard is all in on Leicester City. Up the mighty Foxes!
Woody gets to lead this week because Woody found himself in all sorts of action.
And so we come to the halfway mark of the season. Once these games are through they’ll all have played 19 times with 19 more to come. Double or nothing, aye Leicester fans?
Moss let an easy one in, Riera got two yellows and Adelaide got three goals. Merry Christmas Phoenix fans.
There’s something special about the Boxing Day fixtures. The freezing, icy ground sprinkled with snow, the players all armoured with gloves and long sleeves, breathing mist and looking tired from the start.
Leicester, Arsenal and Bournemouth may all be nursing three game win-streaks heading into Christmas but there is a team out there that can beat that: Watford.
You know what’s a good way to start a game of football? Try Tommy Smith's Ipswich and their 16 second goal last week.
Roy hit a pen, players wore #SaveTheNix warm up shirts and some Holosko fella scored a pearler in a 1-1 draw.
I can’t help but feel that Chelsea Football Club has made a big mistake.
Oh Jose. Where exactly did it all go wrong? And how did it happen so damn quickly?
It’s hard to know what to make of Chris Wood's Leeds. Every week brings a new emotion and this week it was frustration.
“Boring, boring Man United” goes the jesting refrain, but Manchester United haven’t been boring in their last couple of games – they just haven’t been very good.
Brisbane handled the heat better than our Nix, who showed nice signs before they return to the fortress this weekend.
While Stoke City are doing their best to turn into Barcelona, it seems that West Ham have their goals set at the not-so-lofty heights of Barcelona-Lite, also known as Arsenal.