I don’t think I can handle any more heartbreak
This Saturday Otago challenges Southland for the Ranfurly Shield. And you know what? I really hope the boys in Blue and Gold win. I have supported this lot my entire life and now I feel I deserve a bit of payback. Ever since I was born, in what’s now Hayward University Hall in Dunedin, I [...]
Spain or Holland?
With the early exit of Australia and New Zealand from the tournament, and the start of the All Blacks season and with the NRL shaping up for finals footy, the hype around tonight’s Football World Cup Final is somewhat lacking in this part of the World. Nevertheless, it is a big fricken deal, so I [...]
Walking On Sunshine
In case you’re a kiwi, and you somehow haven’t seen this yet, please enjoy the clip below. One of the great moments in NZ sporting history… Never has a draw tasted so sweet… It kinda makes me feel like singing this song… HERE
Have you lost your mind?
Can the All Whites get a result against Italy on Monday? Let’s be honest, a win is a 1000-1 shot, but is it possible, that through a classy Smeltz finish or deflected Bertos cross, that the All Whites sneak another draw, this time against the mighty Azzurri? They are HEAVYWEIGHTS of World Football remember… defending [...]
FIFA Fan Fest Sydney – Australia v Germany
There has to be a pretty good reason to get me out of bed at 4am. And this morning it was football. All the hype of the FIFA Fan Fest in Darling Harbour was too much to resist, so I headed down to check out the floating big screen for the Australia versus Germany match. [...]
Football World Cup Preview
I certainly don’t know enough to predict results based on actual footballing reasons, and enough “experts” like Tommy Smyth have blabbered out their predictions already, so I will base my preview on the teams you care about on the following images… Australia. Being the Captain of a champion nation, Lucas Neill obviously thought he should [...]
SBW on SBW
When it is announced this week that Sonny Bill Williams has signed with the NZRU, remember the date, as one day it will gone down as a pivotal moment in NZ’s history. As my Ashburton-born, Sydney-based rugby-loving pal JP Wallis said today, “In all aspects of my life, I will be 5% happier if SBW [...]
Cricket in the USA
Every day in conversation, once in a printed magazine, and with doubt far too often on this website, I talk about cricket. I can’t really help it. As I often tell my buddy, “I don’t know anything, at all, apart from some shitty facts about cricket post 1991″. So forgive me for constructing yet another [...]