Football United - July 2014 West Ham and Newcastle visit

I reckon just alternate every year, especially when places like Chch miss out on regular season games

I would quite like to see some sort of NZ mini-tournament involving Phoenix and say the top 2-3 from ASB prem?

An annual challenge cup or something?

It would, IMO, be better than playing Upper Hutt FC in Petone on a chilly Tuesday night.

The ASB Premiership starts after the A-League, so that wouldn't work. Best you could do is play the likes of Miramar Rangers & Central United.

All 3 of you?

That would be the theme to "The Big Match" or for those watching in London "The London Match".

btw - time to hand back Ravel......he wants to come home!

Harsh. There was at least 4 (me and HN)

So TW and ACFC then?

I am looking forward to a good twist and shout session. Because it makes no sense.

At its height in the first few seasons of the Kingz the Bloc 5 mob were about 500+ strong and very noisy. Go look on the old clips. They were damned impressive.

We never had 500 'active'. 

Like the Fever Zone alot of people were 'adjacent' rather than 'active'.

There was however a time at the end of the Rufer season at Ericsson stadium where you had to get to the ground 45 - 30 minutes before kick off in order to get a place in the back 10 rows of the Bloc. But yeah, 20 - 30 actives (at best), and several hundred adjacents ... but the actives need adjacents...

...500 odd singing and jumping up and down and generally going mental is still 500 or so, and the collective buzz is strong.

It does need coordinators, ring leaders, caporegimes etc though to focus the will of the masses.

Correct.

Well done ;)

I was an "adjacent" in those days, but soon couldn't resist. Lots of funs doing T & S. See 31 January in our Kingz page for 2004

http://plainsrangers.com/kingz2004.html

so what happened with this?

They couldn't fit him in. Tada Boosh!

How many on here travelled to another region to see a FootBall United game. And what region to what game.   

Just personal Interest.  No prizes 

All four games, Barry, and you can read about them via here:

http://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/Scoreboard/

Cheers,

JR

As far as I'm aware not related to a Barry. But did know one in Porirua some 40+ years ago but played rugby. 

To Wellington from Napier

Came up to Wellington from Dunedin, but not solely for the games.

Had me fooled!!! Looked so authentic. Poor guy has had his You Tube account deleted now.

Can't find the Nix v Hammers full game at all now - all videos have been removed from You Tube.

However, Nix v Newcastle is still there in full: good to see they got our local commentary with Paul Ifill in the UK:

Also, Sydney v West Ham in full:

and Newcastle v Sydney in full:

Newcastle, West Ham, Schalke, Malaga in Weekend Tournament on Sommet Sport:

Schalke Pre-Season Football Cup on Sommet this weekend and next week:

 Great stuff!!!

Just saw it up on the Freeview Program guide.

Will be interesting to compare how the Hammers and Newcastle do in this tournament compared to in NZ last week.

Schedule: Sunday 1 am : Newcastle Utd v Malaga (rpt 4 pm)

                  Sunday 9.30 pm Hammers v Schalke (delayed)
                 

                  Monday 1 am Hammers v Malaga live (rpt 6.30 pm Tues.)

                                4 pm Newcastle v Schalke (delayed)

Sommet Sport schedule:

http://www.freeviewnz.tv/tv-guide.aspx

About the tournament:

http://www.whufc.com/articles/20140411/west-ham-he...

http://www.whufc.com/articles/20140801/schalke-04-...

Snap

To Welly from EBOP

I can confirm Oioi was in attendance. ;)

So Sky have billed me $40 for the football tour, plus $25 for each game... did they do this for anyone else?

Guess I'll be on the phone to them later

Shambles

Hi Paul - was just about to post the exact same thing, thought "WTF" when I seen the amount of my bill!

$140 for 4 friendlies! Now I think we can all agree THAT is too much :-)

Ridiculous stuff from Sky.

Shit they'd better not have.... I spent a fortune on the FU tour, tickets to Auckland and Wellington and the Sky deals as well....

I have Sky through Vodafone but I doubt that makes any difference.

I get the feeling it was recording the games that made the system screw up because when I pressed record it said 'checking purchase information' rather than just recording instantly.

So if you recorded the games, you might have the same issue!

I tweeted Vodafone and they seem to be looking into it.

Seems behaviour from Newcastle and West Ham fans is hemispheres apart 

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-new...

Too expensive for the muppets to fly out here obviously.

Westham bet bundesliga team Schalke on penalties, Newcastle lost to La Liga team Malaga in a similar tournament in Germany today.

Newcastle to commemorate John Alder and Liam Sweeney at first game of season and beyond with The Alder Sweeney Memorial Garden 

(info from nufc.com)

Full statement : http://www.nufc.com/2014-15html/2014-08-07nufc-mh1...

Plus further proof, if required, of the wider football family offering support across club rivalry.
A tribute banner commissioned and paid for by Manchester City fans ahead of the opening game of the season.

From Auckland to Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne (Kingz)

From Auckland to Hamilton and Wellington (Kingz)

From Wellington to Auckland, Napier and Dunedin (Nix)

From Wellington to Melbourne and Sydney (Nix)

Update from nufc.com:                           

Liam Sweeney

The Sweeney family confirm that they have now returned from Amsterdam with Liam and his funeral is set to be staged in Newcastle on Thursday August 21st.

Confirmed arrangements and timings are awaited, but a service at Saint Mary's Cathedral on Clayton Street West in the city centre is planned.

News of fellow supporter John Alder is still awaited, with Dutch-led forensic teams continuing work to identify remains of MH17 disaster victims shipped to Holland. Sunday's season-opener against Manchester City will see both team captains join with representatives from John and Liam's families to lay wreathes in the centre circle.

Former player Jimmy Montgomery will also join them to represent SAFC and their supporters and a minutes silence be observed following the arrival of the teams.

The club have announced that they will create The Alder Sweeney Memorial Garden outside the main entrance to the Milburn Stand as a lasting memorial to both men.

Well well, who would have thought from watching them in NZ that the Hammers would be in the top half of the EPL and Newcastle at the bottom! This places the Phoenix comparatively either 7th in the EPL or relegated! 

Update from nufc.com 

Newcastle United 4 Sydney FC 0

Wellington Phoenix 2 West Ham 1

West Ham 1 Sydney FC 3

Wellington Phoenix 0 Newcastle United 1

West Ham 1 Newcastle United 0

Sydney FC vs Wellington Phoenix to be played December 21.

		P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
	Newcastle United	3	2	0	1	4	6
	Wellington Phoenix	2	1	0	1	0	3
	Sydney FC	2	1	0	1	-2	3
	West Ham	3	1	0	2	-2	3

According to FeverBot, a 5-0 win over Sydney FC would give us the Inaugural Football United trophy, when using the first two league games between the sides that didn't play each other in to complete the tournament.

Are we in for another EPL side coming to NZ ?? We all know Liverpool are heading back down under, and other big clubs heading over too, and now Nix tweeted this not long ago....

Wellington Phoenix @WgtnPhoenixFC25m25 minutes ago

Stay tuned as an exciting announcement on preseason is due out tonight. #CantBeatWgtn #Preseason #possibilities