Last week the Zebras were confirmed as relegated with two games to spare, having not won a single league game all season. Not quite how they were hoping it’d go down... but they still had those two games to get through and Hannah Wilkinson wasn’t letting that moment slip.
The Wellington Phoenix have four games left in their season, three of them to be played within an eight-day stretch starting on Saturday arvo, and they probably need to win at least three (if not all) of them to crack that pesky top six.
Derby Day football, the threat of relegation looming large, second to last game of the season, a kiwi midfielder with a point to prove after a difficult few months... the ingredients were all there for a Sarpreet Singh special
Right now the Wellington Phoenix are slightly on the wrong side of probability in trying to at least match what they achieved the last two seasons and make the A-League finals. Whether they get there or not, that’s too hard to predict right now.
This was not a good week for the Timbers but it was an alright week for Bill Tuiloma. In the midweek they travelled to Mexico for the second leg of their CONCACAF Champions League quarter-final (after a 1-1 home leg draw) where they fell behind on twenty mins…
Oli Sail did not play a single minute last season. He’d played four times in each of the previous two seasons, every time as a backup/alternate, but if he was planning on taking his career to the next level in Ufuk Talay’s first campaign in charge then that didn’t go so well.
Ali Riley’s ongoing media takeover is ramping up even more. Another slick episode of Off The Ball chatting with Orlando teammates of course, still a couple more of those on the way. But then there’s also this news about her and Toni Pressley creating their own vegan cooking show…