This will not have been a game that the Central girls were circling on the calendar. First versus last on the ladder, with Eastern Suburbs having beaten them 8-0 in the reverse fixture. At least they were at home this time
With twenty-two players all locked and loaded, the Wellington Phoenix are ready for their second season in the A-League Women’s. Some of those players are new to the team, many are returning from year one
How about Melville United? Bit of a slog over the first month of the National League but they’ve figured out their groove these past two weeks with wins over Christchurch United and Birkenhead. Scoring goals in the process
The Woodsman giving it a knee slide on a rainy afternoon on England’s south coast, that’s what we wanna see. Prior to the weekend’s game away against Southampton, Chris Wood had only scored once all season
We began this week in Christchurch, English Park to be more specific, as Cashmere Technical sought to apply their litmus test to Napier City Rovers. The litmus test being that…
The eighth week of this competition delivered the reverse fixtures of the first week of this competition. Safe to say that plenty has happened since then
The last time the Footy Ferns played was only a few weeks ago. October 9 in Nagano, they lost 2-0 to Japan. That result was about as expected and we didn’t really learn anything new, although the team did at least get…
Saturday arvo in sunny Napier, never a bad way to start a game week… particularly in a round that also saw torrential rain and thunderstorms elsewhere in the motu
Sometimes you’ve gotta take a step back in order to take two forward, right? When Ryan Thomas left PEC Zwolle for PSV Eindhoven back in 2018, it was on glowing terms with the club that had given him his big chances as a professional footballer
Here it was, finally. Into the last matchweek before every team had played each other at least once and that meant this fixture could wait no longer. The two runaway leaders atop the table
The task was simple for Marco Rojas and Colo-Colo: avoid defeat against Coquimbo Unido in their third-to-last match of the Primera División season and they’d be champions of Chile
The ol’ Southern Derby. Canterbury United Pride have been below their usual standards this season, stretched for depth by a few injuries and unavailabilities and also probably without the margin for error they’d otherwise be used to with these brutal Auckland sides around
It was a double-banger long weekend in the Women’s National League, gotta squeeze in the games in order to get through two full rounds. Therefore week six began with a couple of Friday night games under Auckland lights…
David Farrington Park always looks a treat and particularly so on a sunny afternoon. Miramar Rangers were hoping to take the momentum from their late two-goal comeback last week in Napier to get their first win of the campaign
Yeah you see that? A first team debut for Matt Garbett at Torino is what that is. He’s had to wait patiently for this moment but manager Ivan Jurić finally found a situation that suited
How about this for an outstanding game to begin week three of this competition? Birkenhead hosting Auckland City, the only two teams with six points after the first two weeks.
Even at this stage of the season dropped points are tough to overcome. When only two teams can make the grand final and Eastern Suburbs and Western Springs keep on winning it means that teams like Northern Rovers and Canterbury United Pride simply cannot afford to fall too far behind
Danny Hay is no longer the All Whites head coach. His contract runs up at the end of the month and he’s chosen not to reapply for the gig. He was invited to do so after a routine review into the World Cup cycle was completed but it’s often a bit frisky inviting an incumbent to reapply for their own job…
Not sure what you were expecting as the Footy Ferns took on Japan in Nagano... but it probably should have been exactly what happened. They may have been coming off two a couple wins against Mexico and Philippines but this was different gravy
This week’s Flying Kiwis is largely dedicated to Marko Stamenic, which nobody should be in any way surprised about given the week he’s just had.