YELLOW FEVER'S FINGER ON LOCAL FOOTBALL'S PULSE

Edition Six
BIG CUP
RUNNETH
OVER
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 editorial - Big Cup Seeding Shambles
Oh Wellington, Is Wonderful This week all of Wellington’s top teams duke it out in Round One of the
Big Cup.
The Fever Club Championships table is hotting up already with
the two previous winners, Wellington Olympic and Seatoun, Meanwhile the following heavy hitters of club football in the Central
battling it out at the top. Chasing them are surprise contenders Region get a bye into Round Two: Inglewood, Napier City Rovers, New
Stokes Valley and Western Suburbs. Plymouth Rangers, Palmerston North End, Palmerston North Marist, Red
Sox Manawatu, Taradale.
The Fever Club Champs tells you a lot about Wellington football
if you have a closer look. To perform well in the FCC clubs have So at the end of this round it’s
to be strong from top to bottom, in all divisions. Generally this possible that only two of the
puts bigger clubs at a disadvantage. top five teams in the Central
League will remain (Miramar
Two of the “big five” - Wellington United and North Wellington get a bye to Round Two as last
anchor this week’s table, while University and Petone lumber year’s winners) while the mighty
along in mid-table. Only Waterside Karori are pushing towards Inglewood won’t have played a
the top of the table, having earned 187 points out of the club’s game yet.
113 games this season - an average of a win every two games
roughly. Not a bad effort for a club playing almost 20 games What a joke! Sort it out NZF.
a week. Tweet your fury @NZ_Football.

Seatoun, who top the table, by comparison play just 5 games a
weekend (on average). Still, they are managing to win over two
thirds of their games. Impressive. Just behind them the Greeks
are also winning about two thirds of their club’s matches.
Their surprise loss to Waterside Karori in Champs Premier last
weekend will not have helped.
The FCC is by far and away our favourite trophy in Wellington
football these days, and not just because we invented it. It is
one of the last hangovers of a time where the “club” meant
something. We miss those days.
So check out where your club is at in the table. Are you carrying
their asses? Or is someone carrying you? And if you’re at North
Wellington, do any of you remember what it feels like to win?
Good luck this weekend!
The Naki Breaks Away
News out of New Plymouth today that the rebel U10 league has won its
battle for freedom from New Zealand Football.
For those of you who don’t follow the political situation in junior football
in the Naki, a group calling themselves Taranaki Soccer sprang up this
year complaining of ridiculously high fees being charged by Central
Football, NZF’s regional body in the area.
Taranaki Soccer launched rebel competitions which were massively
popular. Central Football tried to clamp down and all junior footy in the
Naki was cancelled last weekend.
It was shaping up to be a battle of Rupert Murdoch proportions. Super
League vs NRL. There were threats of a lockout. But Central Football
have accepted defeat and will not offer junior leagues this year.
Little Guys 1-0 Central Football

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Scrap of the Week- Your Ad Here?

From the Yellow Fever forums: Here’s an interesting little tale
about the HB Derby. At the aftermatch function at Maycenvale’s
sponsors pub, City Rovers coach, Grant Hastings [who a few years
ago left Maycenvale under acrimonious circumstances] gave the
usual “football was the winner” speech and wished Maycenvale
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well in the rest of the league fixtures and in the Chatham Cup.
Unbeknown to him [and most other people outside of Maycenvale]
their secretary had failed to get their Chatham cup entry in on Ring Smithy to find out how
time and so missed out. Next minute, Maycenvale chairman [can’t
remember his name but a bit of an egg] is in Hastings’ face calling
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him all the words under the sun. Reports say that it was very close
to fisticuffs. Ah, the beautiful game…..

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 Big Cup Round One
It’s Round One of the Chatham Cup proper this weekend. The
Central League teams come into the competition this weekend.

The draw serves up some exciting matches (and some trash). Park
Life has whipped around the office and picked our winners
(in bold):

Wainuiomata vs Wairarapa Utd Prouse 1 (2pm)

Wellington Utd vs Olympic Newtown 1 (2pm)
Tawa vs North Wellington Redwood (2pm)
Upper Hutt vs Waterside Karori Harcourt 1 (2pm)
Waikanae vs Island Bay Jim Cooke (2pm)
Lower Hutt vs Western Suburbs Bell Pk (2pm)
Petone vs KCU Petone 1 (2pm)
Stop Out vs Stokes Valley Hutt Pk 1 (2pm)

Wellington United vs Olympic at Newtown stands out, and so does

Lower Hutt vs Wests at Bell Park (probably Fraser 5!!).

Wellington United bottled their Cap Premier campaign last year

but still fancy themselves Central League material. This will test
their mettle. Olympic meanwhile have had a pretty flat start to
this year’s Central League season.

If you’re going to this one, keep an eye out for Dave Batty pulling
strings in the midfield for Wellington United. Batts is still one of
the most graceful footballs ever to lace up boots in Wellington.
United’s coach G Little might even don the boots (once he’s pulled
all the dollar bills out of them) for a cameo against a club he used
to torment in his time at Miramar. G’s bones might be ageing
but his eye for goal is as sharp as ever. And his ability to wind
up Greeks has done nothing but get better with age. Should be
entertaining!

Parky’s Pick: Wellington United to win on pens.

Lower Hutt vs Wests throws up some interesting elements as

well. Wests have struggled to buy a goal since their Japanese

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 striker Hiroshi Kamakazi has been injured. Wests’ newly arrived
Englishmen will get their first taste of the Hutt Valley. They’ve
arrived from Surrey (and not Essex) so that might be a bit of a
shock to their system.

Parky’s Pick: Wests’ Kamikaze to score a hat trick. Wests to win

3-2 aet (1-1 full time).

Several possible giant killings loom - KCU could give Petone a

run for their money, especially with Petone’s habit of throwing
away leads. Island Bay could have a tough trip to Waikanae too.
But we reckon Wainuiomata, at home on the rolling meadow that
is Richard Prouse Park, could present plenty of problems for on-
again-off-again Wairarapa United. Rapper’s Waisake Sabutu could
definitely be Goliath. Will Mark Manzone be David? We reckon it
could happen!

Trip Down Memory Lane

White Noise and Four Kings are going to be replaying the All Whites
World Cup matches at Four Kings on same days as they were played 12 Four Kings
months ago. So get your very best white suit out, grab your Rib Shack
Red, and saddle up for a Trip Down Memory Lane. Saturday June 11th
15 June: New Zealand vs Slovakia (Four Kings/Rustenburg)
7.30pm kick off
20 June: New Zealand vs Italy (Four Kings/Nelspruit)
24 June: New Zealand vs Paraguay (Four Kings/Polokwane)

ALL AT FOUR KINGS!

On Easter weekend Dave Capstick,
football lover and self employed
builder, suffered a fractured skull
in a horrific head clash with his
Karori team mate.
Join us in this fundraiser event to
help make Cappy’s road to recovery
that little bit easier. All proceeds
to the Cappy family.
Supported by
Yellow Fever, Four Kings
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$25 per head gives you a pint,
some snacks and the funny money
for the casino.
Great prizes to win and a
stack of raffles.
200 tickets only.
For tickets or contribution
enquiries email
mike.greene@paradise.net.nz
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 U20s Find Winning Form in Korea
In case you missed it, New Zealand recently qualified for the U20 World
Cup in Colombia later this year. They’re currently in Korea on a build up
tour and recently beat African champions Nigeria.
This from NZF:
The Junior All Whites have given their FIFA U-20 World Cup confidence
a boost with a thrilling 4-3 win over African champions Nigeria at the
Suwon U-20 Cup in South Korea today.
As in their previous two matches in the quadrangular tournament – 0-1
defeats to Uruguay and Korea Republic – New Zealand were competitive
throughout the match but crucially found their scoring touch to claim a
prize scalp.
Nigeria took the lead in the 18th when Uche Nwofor struck from 25
metres out but New Zealand clawed their way back to level terms when
Cameron Lindsay curled an equaliser in from the edge of the box, just
minutes after Dakota Lucas failed to convert a close range chance.
The Flying Eagles were denied twice before halftime, first by New
Zealand goalkeeper Stefan Marinovic and then by the offside flag but it
was New Zealand who struck next when captain Nick Branch volleyed a
Marco Rojas free kick after an hour’s play.
“Today was very pleasing for no other reason than we’re learning how to
win,” said Milicich.
You can follow Chris Milicich on Twitter: @cmilicich
Suwon International Youth (U-20) Tournament 2011
Suwon World Cup Stadium
Suwon, Korea Republic
Nigeria 3 (18’, 65’ 66’)
New Zealand 4 (Cameron LINDSAY 36’, Nick BRANCH , Marco
ROJAS 71’, Dakota LUCAS 77’)
Halftime: 1-1
New Zealand: Stefan MARINOVIC (gk), Luis ESTEVEZ (Ant
HOBBS 46’), Nick BRANCH (c), James MUSA (Nikko BOXALL 80’),
Andrew MILNE (Liam HIGGINS 66’), Ryan CAIN, Adam THOMAS
(Zane SOLE 90’), Cameron LINDSAY, Marco ROJAS (Michael BUILT
88’), Andy BEVIN, Dakota LUCAS (Sean LOVEMORE 89’).
Substitutes not used: Alex CARR (rgk), Jamie DORIS, Ethan
GALBRAITH.
Coach: Chris MILICICH

The lead was short lived as quick fire goals to Nigeria, the second with
New Zealand temporarily down to 10 men through an injury to fullback
Andrew Milne, earned them a 3-2 lead with 25 minutes left.

Rojas added his own name

to the score sheet in the 71st
minute and six minutes later
Lucas pounced on a poor
goalkeeper clearance to rifle
home what proved to be the
match winner. New Zealand Don’t forget to follow Park Life
coach Chris Milicich was
satisfied with the progress on Facebook and Twitter
his side had made over the
week long tournament. We are @Park_Life on Twitter. And at facebook.com/parklifenz

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