Sometimes i don’t enjoy being right.

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I have just finished watching the sports news, predictably it was led by the news that Wellington has been granted the A league license and professional soccer (I refuse to call it football after the article in Sundays SST) has been saved at the 11th hour in NZ by the generous actions of one man.

For me the interesting point was the comment by Dow or Seater (I cannot remember which one said it) that they were contacted by Mr Serepisos last week after he (Serepisos) heard about the plight of pro soccer in NZ ON THE RADIO.

Dow is the same man who just two weeks ago was telling us that the funding was in hand, it now appears that was a bare faced lie and in typical NZ soccer fashion they were all talk and no action

We now know that;

• The Wellington bid NEVER had the financial backing it required to be accepted by the AFA until a member of the public rang and offered the money.
• Soccer NZ have been stringing the AFA along all the whole time, quite why they bother with us is confusing but it certainly puts to bed the myth that Aussie are out to destroy our sporting teams and codes.
• Those running soccer in NZ have no f**king idea what they are doing when it comes to raising money let alone running a soccer club
• The sporting press in NZ is pathetic, apart from the article in Sundays SST they never really took Dow or Seater to task about HOW they were going to fund the team, they as much as anybody were relying on a Santa Claus figure to emerge from the ether.

I applaud the actions of Mr Serepisos, my only hope is that he looks upon this as a donation because he sure as hell is not going to make any money out of it.

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