On the 25th of September, Chelsea Football Club was in a bit of a bother. Since then they’ve strung together a five match winning streak in the Premier League, scoring 16 goals and not conceding a single one in the process.
If his Championship form is anything to go by then the All Whites are getting the best of Chris Wood when he jets back for the international window.
They did it! By God, they finally did it! The Wellington Phoenix won their first game of the season, smoking the Jets 2-0 at Westpac.
Drumroll please, the All Whites are playing their next round of World Cup qualifiers and we have a squad to take a good old look at.
She’s been a funny old season so far, swinging all over the place with new teams taking the ascendency every few days, it seems.
The last twenty were like the seventh level of hell. Time never goes slower than when you’re waiting for the mercy of the final whistle, just begging it doesn’t get any worse.
The League Cup is always the forgotten trophy of the English footy season... oh look but there are two All Whites on their way to the quarter finals. Huzzah!
Oh Jose, so magnanimous. He even picked Marouane Fellaini just to show how much he still cares about the old fellas.
They say cometh the hour, cometh the man. And in the 94th minute at home against Sunderland with his team desperate for a win and struggling to find it… henceforth came Winston Reid.
A 92nd minute winner from Milos Ninkovic doomed the Welly Nix to a third consecutive defeat to start the season. Allow the Wildcard and the Doc to put a bit of sense to what was a pretty tragic defeat.
A busy few weeks for Jose Mourinho, he's back at Stamford Bridge to play Chelsea this weekend - headlining the ninth round of Premier League fixtures.
After a wicked good performance for the NZ national team the other day, Winston was back on a jet and ready to take his place for the Hammers at Selhurst Park on the weekend.
For the first four minutes of the game, while the Nix were bossing 98% of possession, it looked like this would be a pretty different game to what it ended up being.
Ooh, awkward for N’Golo Kante, right? The only one of the title team to voluntarily move on and now for the first time he gets to play against all those Champions League players he stiffed in leaving.
Yeah, alrighty then Mr Hudson. We all see ya now. This is what can happen when we actually play games during international breaks.
A loss is only as bad as the best excuse you can find for it and this loss had a very good excuse.
Put simply, this was the finest performance of the Hudson era. The first time when he’d set up with a specific tactical approach – which he always does – and it really looked like it was honestly working.
Times have been tough for Winston and the Hammers and what they needed more than anything was a nice comprehensive win going into the international break. They didn’t get it.
After 20 years of Arsene Wenger, he’s almost like a comfort in the constant change of Premier League football.
If the Welly Nix are back in action then The Niche Cache is gonna be watching so to help wave in the 2016-17 season, the Diggity Doc and Wildcard had a good long chat about it all.