The gravel in your sporting ice cream.
– The Phoenix have risen from Wellington’s coffee grounds (or something) to play in Australia’s A-League, and kicked off on Sunday against the Melbourne Victory. It’s a shame for us Auckland footy fans, but the Cake Tin, or Ring Of Fire has it’s now known and football looks like a match made in heaven. There … Continue reading “Football weekend”
– Mike Whitney Toohey’s Ad – A throwback to a simpler time when the Windies were awesome, a man could feel comfortable in big hair and stubbies, and sport was just the warm up for drinking 23 cans of piss– Sneaky goal – You can see him behind the goal going “I am the great … Continue reading “Links on Friday”
SRNZPA: Harewa resident Mark ‘Gates’ Gately is cautiously optimistic of staying awake to watch television coverage of this weekend’s Super 14 Semi Finals from South Africa. With the Blues and Sharks kicking off at 1am NZ standard time followed by The Bulls versus the Crusaders at 3.30am, Gately sees remaining conscious for both matches as … Continue reading “Hawera man planning to watch Super 14 Semis despite late kick off, chopping piss”
An utterly crap start to today, flipping between Sri Lanka thrashing NZ and Spurs going out of Europe. The only thing that could have made it worse would be if Rove came in and shat on the rug. Here’s some links, anyway…– Matthew Hayden is the form batsman of the tournament so far – still, … Continue reading “Links on Friday”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ar7uo9MOc]Paola Di Canio scores a very nice goal in training – imagine living in a country where practice goals are shown on the telly. The best bit about going to Premiership games was getting there early and watching the pros warm up – some of the tricks they casually pulled out when the pressure was … Continue reading “Nice finish”
Yeah yeah I’m crap at blogging – here’s a roundup of the World Cup, (ahem) now we have some perspective. England No progress since Erickson took over – streetwise Scolari had it all over Sven again, but with respect to big Phil, Sven outwitted himself. Walcott was a smokescreen, good for one press conference back … Continue reading “World Cup wrap up”
– Three points for Sven, but not much else. Fit strikers are a novelty in the England squad, let’s hope Crouch starts banging them in. Beckham seems to like the new dippy swervy ball, but it’s hard to see goals coming from open play. – Big guns Holland, Argentina, Portugal, Germany and England all win, … Continue reading “WC bullet points 120606”
Here kicks off sport review NZ’s Germany 06 coverage. I’m going to be providing some New Zealand perspective on the world’s biggest sporting event. Mostly from the couch. After some (pretty minor) soul searching, I will hereby be backing England in this World Cup. Here’s why. I started off supporting England when I began taking … Continue reading “I’m backing England”
Living in London during the 1999 treble season for Manchester United with a rabid red and a sky decoder, I watched most of the games shown on the way to the treble. The team was built on Fergusson’s youth FA Cup winning team of Giggs, Beckham, Scholes, and the Nevilles, along with the awesome spine … Continue reading “Fergie’s fledglings – where are they now?”