Auckland City 3, Eastern Suburbs 2Kiwitea Street, Auckland, January 26 2019 Yeah, so obviously I’ve been a bit slack in January. Whereas my first game of 2018 kicked off at 12:01am on January 1, this year I have kept my wonderful adoring fan(s) (hi mum) waiting a whopping 26 days […]
Last week we kicked off a series of long form interviews transcribed from The Return Fixture – ITBOTN’s National Women’s League podcast. The second installment is Helena’s insightful chat with Mikaela Hunt, Southern United’s captain and inspirational leader. Helena Wiseman: Mikaela Hunt has played in a National Women’s League final […]
I would have come up with a more imaginative title than that but what can I tell you, I’m on holiday and I can’t be arsed! I’m also feeling slightly shell shocked that out of the ten posts you clicked on the most this year, I only wrote three of […]
By Dave Newick [Caution: this post contains graphic descriptions of what it’s like to experience head injuries. Take care if you’re a bit squeamish – Enzo] I felt like it would never end. The headaches, nausea and tiredness just wouldn’t stop. It had been three months since my head injury […]
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 […]