Here’s a Chatham Cup semi-final special edition version of our favourite moving pictures segment. This snippet comes from the Melville United versus Waitakere City Chatham Cup semi-final played at Gower Park on Saturday August 24, 2013. Waitakere won 4-1 on the back of a stand-out Roy Krishna performance. You’ll find some movies of the goals here, along with some match pics and a handful of...
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Yesterday’s Chatham Cup semi-final at Gower Park, between Melville United and Waitakere City, was a tight match played between two evenly contested teams. If it wasn’t for one player, Fijian livewire Roy Krishna, this one would probably have gone to penalties. Instead it finished 4-1 to the visitors. Krishna stood out like the beacon of class that he is, amongst a sea of otherwise staunch workmanlike graft. He scored twice...
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Every time I visit a match I’ll take a minute long movie so readers can get a feel for the venue. In the latest in our One Minute At… series we’re at Waitakere City’s Fred Taylor Park. We were there for their NRFL Premier Division match against Bay Olympic on August 17, 2013. The game finished 2-0 to Bay Olympic. You can read a match summary here.
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The Matamata Bus was back on the beat today, after a few weeks of taking it more than a little bit easy. After another mad dash up to Auckland, following a morning of mini-kickers football (basically chasing round after 5 and 6 year old kids), I made it to Fred Taylor Park just as the Waitakere City versus Bay Olympic match kicked off. And just as the drizzle started. Drizzle that later in the match turned to big, cold, ugly, smelly,...
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The Matamata Bus has been in the garage for a long overdue and well needed service, lube and oil change. It’s been a long season (yes, even football writers sometimes get a bit fatigued) and the R&R has been appreciated. So instead of an article about a match or two this week, I got a little summary of what’s already gone and some insight into what’s next. When I began this blog back in mid-March, after standing...
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