Rich’s Round Up – Week 7

I trust that everyone reading this week’s review has now seen or at least heard about the goals scored in this year’s Champions League Final between Real Madrid and Liverpool.  I’m sure that all the goalkeepers could sympathise with what happened in Kiev, whilst all the strikers arrived at their games hoping to encounter the…

ASFA Cup Round 1 Review

The ASFA Cup kicked off yesterday in another sunny sunday afternoon in Auckland. Plenty of goals (non of which count towards the season’s golden boot), but not too many upsets, with 7 of the 8 premiership teams and all of the top League 1 teams safely progressing through to the second round. Auckland Volcanoes, winners…

Rich’s Round Up – Week 6

I’ll kick things off this week with the weekend’s ASFA relevent Chatham Cup results.  On Saturday, on the North Shore, Internationale failed to score a goal for the first time in long, long time, losing 6-0 to a very strong Forest Hill-Millford side.  HNK were also unable to beat their opponent’s keeper, losing 2-0 to…

Rich’s Round Up – Week 5

Seventeen games were played on Sunday May 6th, with those in the new-look League 1 playing their first full round of fixtures. 109 goals scored/conceded, but no one scored/conceded double figures for the first time this season. In the Premiership, the match of the day occured on Michael’s Ave 3 with the 2017 Championship winners,…

Chatham Cup – Round 1 Preview

The first round of the Chatham Cup is scheduled to be played over the weekend of May 12th and 13th, and the ASFA will be represented by four teams, two from the Premiership and two from the Championship. To accommodate this, the first round of the ASFA Cup competitions have been moved back a week,…