Answer me this: how does a club that has won this country’s national league four years in a row – basically the Manchester United of our league – have virtually no fans? That question has been bugging me since I was at Fred Taylor Park earlier in the season with WaiBOP United and the ASB Premiership semi-final, a ‘Super City Derby’ no less, had me asking it again. There were less than 200 there for the...
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Sometimes, even if you’re quite heavily involved with a team, it’s nice to be able to sit back and analyse a game of football as objectively as you can and appreciate it for what it was – a decent game of football. As annoying as WaiBOP United’s 3-2 loss at Hawke’s Bay United was I thought it had pretty much everything you could hope for in a match of ASB Premiership standard – goals (and some...
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Given that I’ve not posted on here for a good number of weeks (since late-September, in fact) you could be forgiven for thinking that I’ve packed up and headed for the beach for the summer. In a way, that’s true. Although it’s a footballing ‘beach’, not a sandy one, one that’s played across our New Zealand summer and from one end of the country to the other. My role with WaiBOP Football...
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