Sporting pictures of the Week :- 8 December
Pollution levels were at 30 times the World Health Organisation’s warning level. Sri Lankan bowlers vomiting etc. But still the match went on. Meanwhile, downtown…. What’s not to love about[…]
Tagged: football
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 24 November
So farewell then Anthony Hudson. Here he is in his last engagement with the All Whites; saying goodbye in Lima. Ashes Corner. This is what it’s all about. It’s not[…]
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Last Plane out of Lima (and what now?)
By The Spotter It was like a poker hand with the other player allowed to start with ten cards. That is something akin to what the All Whites faced with[…]
Six Reasons for All Whites Pessimism on Thursday.
It’s a thin line between pessimism and realism Privacy Gone We’re not winding down the build-up hours in the arse end of Miramar now, practicing behind a huge black tarpaulin,[…]
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Five Reasons for All Whites Optimism on Thursday.
Chris Wood The intrigue around his late semi-scratching of Wood before the Wellington leg was one of the more intriguing sub-plots of the afternoon. And when he did come on[…]
Hope Springs for Wellington and Lima
By The Spotter Literally and figuratively, Chris Wood will need his wingman, Marco Rojas tomorrow (and gee, how he has been the absolutely forgotten man in all the build-up) to[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 10 November
In Lima they are preparing this rather large flag to greet the All Whites next week. Meanwhile, back here, their players, fans and mascot have arrived. Te Maire Martin was[…]
The Google Translate Playoff game
The FIFA Intercontinental Playoff is almost on us. These encounters have involved Bahrain, Mexico, and now Peru; three nations with which New Zealand has had no other sporting rivalry. So[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 3 November
The drama of a last minute equaliser. Roy Hodgson has never been that happy since boating down the Seine. Slaven Bilic not so much. Brendon Hartley’s car caught fire in[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :- 27 October
Where to start. KP, Flintoff, Jamie Redknapp and John Barnes pose for the camera. Some things have changed over the years, but not Barnes’s sense of fashion. “You know the[…]
