If you run a search in Google Images for ‘football+pantomime+villain’ you’ll find photos of Luis Suarez, Mario Ballotelli, Diego Maradona and even Robbie Savage, among others. If you added ‘+Tauranga’ to your search you should really come up with a photo of Dave Cook (you don’t, but that’s probably because there just aren’t too many images of the man on the web). Cookie is the man...
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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 Matamata Swifts’ Matamata Domain for their WaiBOP Federation League Division 1 match against AFC Fury played on April 28, 2013. The game finished 5-1 to AFC Fury. Here’s a match report of the game.
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I realise that no matter how hard I try to appear unbiased, anyone who knows of my association with Matamata Swifts will instantly wipe that away and zero straight in on my biased-ness. That goes double for any attempted constructive criticism of the match officials. So how should I call this one? Bugger it. I’ll just call it as I saw it. For me, this was actually a great afternoon out because I got to be a fan again, if only...
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