WaiBOP 1, Northern 2Gower Park, Hamilton, December 8 2018 Well, here we are! The last round of the double round robin National Women’s League is done and dusted. All the teams have finished their season except two of them – those being the two finalists who we can now celebrate […]
By Simon McKenzie Any tourist can visit the well-known attractions in a foreign country, but, if you want to experience a slice of real life, one of the best ways to do it is to visit a football ground on match day. There are many good reasons to take in […]
Auckland 1, WaiBOP 1 McLennan Park, Auckland, December 2 2018 Well, I’ll be gaddammed, it’s December again already! How did that happen? Let me tell you – getting old is how it happened. We all eventually come to the cold, hard, realisation that time speeds up exponentially the older we […]
Tomorrow morning I’ll either watch the Young Ferns or the Junior Ferns (I can never work out which of the age-groups is called which let alone fathom the logic behind it) take on Japan in the quarter finals of the Under 17 World Cup. For the purposes of this post […]
Frauenhagen, Germany By Simon McKenzie All photos by Hans van der Meer The vast majority of football photography involves close-ups of the action and the key protagonists, with the background a blur. Most football photos focus in on two or three players, either in a pivotal moment of movement or […]
It’s the halfway stage of both the National Women’s League and ITBOTN’s inaugural foray into podcasting – The Return Fixture! This is a great milestone – chiefly because in every other year that has gone before, this would mark the end of the competition. That we still have a second […]
Auckland 3, Canterbury 1 McLennan Park, Auckland, October 28 2018 Today, McLennan Park in Papakura was the venue of the 50th football game I’ve photographed in 2018. What a year it has been so far! It started with the Virgili Cup final at 12:01am on January the 1st and since […]
Central 0, WaiBOP 3 Massey University, Palmerston North, October 22 2018 Ok, I admit it. My reaction to WaiBOP’s loss on Saturday was a quintessential sulky teenage tantrum that is unbecoming of a 42 year-old. At full time I packed up my camera gear, flounced off to the car without […]
WaiBOP 0, Central 1 Massey University, Palmerston North, October 20 2018 The 5am alarm. It’s curious to me that what constitutes the most heinous racket in the world on a work day can be such a sweet, sweet melody of the gods on the first day of a long weekend […]
Auckland 1, Capital 1 McLennan Park, Auckland, October 7 2018 A few days ago, John Palethorpe dredged up my old Newmarket Park post and shared it on Twitter. It was a nice reminder, not just of a classic piece of work I did four years ago but also of a […]