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Christchurch United 1970 - 2020

This historically great club have certainly been celebrating their fiftieth anniversary in style with a big gathering of former players, officials, supporters and their families on the weekend, plus the publication of a 400 page book on the history of the club, 50 Years United, 1970-2020 by Coen Lammers (with lots of great photos) and the premier of a documentary film about the club Boys in Blue by Christchurch filmmaker Tony Simpson.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/domestic/12...

Details on the book:

https://cufc.co.nz/news/tpost/a1p4kgcl0y-christchu...

Order enquiry form for the book (scroll down):

https://cufc.co.nz/club/anniversary-book

Six pm News report on the anniversary on TVNZ on Friday (sports bulletin about 33 mins in):https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/one-news-at-6pm/episo...

You can watch the full celebration event from Saturday night here (nearly four hours) with more than twenty former All Whites such as Bobby Almond, Ceri Evans, Ben Sigmund, Danny Halligan, Johan Verweij and Mike McGarry in attendance.

Some great memories there (audio starts about 24 minutes in, soon followed by picture):

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Trailer for the documentary "Boys in Blue", the story of the club:

https://www.facebook.com/christchurchunitedfc/vide...

Made by Tony Simpson,  a veteran director in feature films and TV ("Chronicles of Narnia" and "Vertical Limit" feature films assistant director; "800 Words", "Shortland Street" etc. on TV; director of Kiwi docos "Derby Dogs" and "Kiwi Christmas")

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