Flying Kiwis: Chris Wood, 2016-17 Season Preview
If you followed this column last season then you know that things got fairly tumultuous for Leeds. Buddy, nothing has changed.
If you followed this column last season then you know that things got fairly tumultuous for Leeds. Buddy, nothing has changed.
With all that Winnie and West Ham are going through heading into the new campaign, the All Whites captain preparing for another massive season, we've given him his own special one-off solo edition.
Amber Hearn hit the winner and our Football Ferns beat Columbia 1-0, can they keep the goals flowing against a strong French side?
Remember how nobody believed that Leicester City could win the Premier League last season even after they shot out to a big start?
Of all the kiwis competing in Rio, the Football Ferns have one of the biggest available bandwagons.
A year ago Rafa Benitez was driving to work in sunny Madrid, walking out onto the training pitch to see the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Toni Kroos.
Arsene Wenger has said that the fees being paid for footballers these days is ‘scary’ and ‘completely crazy’.
Manchester teams flashing blank cheques at anyone who’ll answer their phone calls is kinda boring. Nope, the most interesting team out there with a chequebook is probably Southampton.
If the Euros didn’t quite live up to the hype, they certainly hogged the headlines over the last month.
After all that, Portugal are the European Champions.
Once Pep Guardiola was announced as the new Manchester City manager back at the start of the year, it was pretty clear that Manchester United would respond in turn.
We've got a Football Ferns Olympic squad and there's no one better to lead the underdogs to glory than Abby Erceg.
Perhaps it was a step too far for Iceland, perhaps they’d already exhausted themselves in getting this far. Whatever it was, the fairy tale came to an abrupt end against France as they were thoroughly dismantled.
Guys, don’t worry. Lionel Messi is going to play for Argentina again, his retirement is basically the ‘Jon Snow is Dead’ of footballing revelations.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: An English squad full of talent, hyped up as possible winners ahead of a major tournament, stumble through the group stages and fall to a weaker opponent in a hideously unimaginative performance.
And with that, just as they always do, England found a way to disappoint.
Now we’re into the real stuff… but, mate, what a couple of days it’s been for the underdogs!
Wales only needed a result against a poor Russian side to progress. They got that and then some, smashing them 3-0 and it could have been several more.
There are a bunch of underdog nations competing in these expanded Euros but Iceland are the one that have captured the most hearts.
Good news everybody! It’s now being fairly widely reported that Sky TV has regained the rights to the Premier League in New Zealand (sort of).