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 Tauranga Old Blues’ Wharepai Domain for their Chatham Cup Round 1 match against Hukanui-Rototuna played on May 11, 2013. The game finished 5-0 to Old Blues. This clip finishes with the awarding of the penalty that led to the opening goal. Here’s a match report of the...
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The last time I watched a game of football at Wharepai Domain in Tauranga was in the mid-1990s. That day, the match was a Chatham Cup tie between two clubs who have since merged with other clubs – Tauranga City and Waikato United. So it was fitting my next visit, nearly 20 years later, to this venue was for a cup tie between a Tauranga-based side and a Hamilton-based side. Old Blues, current leaders of Waikato Bay of Plenty...
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