Football's Media Coverage

To be honest,i think you'll mostly be hearing about football regardless of whether people call in or not

There was quite a lot of rugby tonight. And even people calling about the football had something to say about the rugby

If anyone is at Wellington airport tomorrow night please come and say hi

Nah, can't be bothered. Although I might email to explain that goals from outside the box count double unless they are scored during the 10 min powerplay then they are worth quadruple!!!

Junior All Whites 2 - Turkey 1

3 days out from the biggest game in years and the first 2 sports stories were bloody rugby!!!!!! F&^% TV1

darkhorse2009-11-11 20:58:52

Media coverage of a sort here:

the second episode of the Wellington podcast features an All Whites special ahead of the big qualifier on Saturday November 14.
Interviews with defender Ben Sigmund, goalkeeper Mark Paston and coach Ricki Herbert.

Download it from the iTunes music store at
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?i=63138253&id=337012915

or if you don't have iTunes, then directly at
http://wellingtonpodcast.podbean.com/feed

cheers!

A quick note re angsting over the use of football and soccer. Stuff website categorises it as 'football" in the sports section...and also has rugby.

Stuff is just going mental with stories related to the game... Outstanding

I check mobile xtra quite often, they always refer to it as soccer, they'll even change the wording from a NZPA story from football to soccer.

Banner at the top of stuff.co.nz is ace.

Irnbru 14 and Terminator X

How does "If NZ win the game, they qualify'', suggest that if it's 2-1 to NZ there will be extra time??????? Come on.

That's spot on Fred.

Yeah I thought it was a great explanation.  Pity such a simple rule cant be explained more easily!

B Sport... Argh

My tin foil hat is working well.

Last night TVNZ led with rugby.

Today stuff.co.nz (which owns fairfax papers) on their front page has a big picture of an all black eating some food.

NZherald's lead story is the rugby.

Very dissapointing, I mean the union game  is against Italy for petes sake and the media is making it out as being  more important than the all whites match????

It is a joke.

Radio sport has had   a bit  on the football, but not the massive amount that Mark Watson said they would last week.

For the sake of all sport in New Zealand, the all whites have to win.

Goal.com have a fan vs. fan article. With good comments from  AW fan and a arrogant Bahrain fan who is also extremely ignorant.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/1863/world-cup-2010/2009/11/11/1617537/world-cup-fan-vs-fan-new-zealand-bahrain

So who is Andre Zlotkowski?

How do you explain All Whites leading the back page of Fairfax's major daily newspaper - the Dominion Post - for the past three days, and having two front page stories as well, then?

NZ Polish football anorak (I mean that in a good way - not a Scousekiwi way) .  ex-Christchurch, not sure where he is these days.

Does all the NZF stuff on here : http://www.rsssf.com/

More stats than you can poke a stick at.
Hard News2009-11-12 10:40:38

Tom Rewi who posts on here as tomrewi featured on front on 'The Press' today. Good stuff and also another big article on the back. And usually a big story the Super 14 squads (especially here in chch) is relegated to the inside back page.

Nelsen interview on BBC site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8355072.stm

I was judging fairfax, the nzherald and tvnz by their webpages.

I have been amazed by the media coverage over the last few days.

The only thing that got my goat was TV1's 'lets try to explain the difference between a 4-4-2 and a 4-4-3 system' which had me in stitches as I think they assumed that their news watchers were of the Play Center variety...



...or rugby fans?   

"difference between a 4-4-2 and a 4-4-3 system"

Anyone know if there was anything mentioned about the game on TV1 during the bulletin. Just heard the sport headlines, and not a mention. Rugby, Golf, League and Tennis.

TV3 on the other hand. Had a a guy LIVE at the airport, interview with ex Bahrain Captain, and all this before the first add break, and the sport headlines were about Mcglinchy and Fallon, and alos about Barhain ariving. top stuff TV3!!

yes TV1 showed AW's segment with the Bahrain team touching down in wellington, it was #2 on the sports news with you guessed it....rugby taking first place again.

TV1 is pro rugby and always will. Which is funny cos they have no rights to any NPC or testmatches. pretty dumb if you ask me.

hahahaha. Now im excited!! the enemy has landed.

Yes i watch both. so i have the right to give my opinion on both :) never said it pissed me off.

I stopped watching TV3 because i HATE the "what's big on our website today" wank-fest.  I've decided that it's back to three, for sports at least!  Plus I miss plays of the week - there's always a goal in there (usually such a  good one Ive seen it 20 times, but 21 isn't a bad number)!

Excellent coverage so far, can't wait for the paper tomorrow. Good old study leave.

The problem is that 'away goals count double' is even written into the FIFA regs.  Sadly this does create confusion.

Saturdays Dom post should be an interesting one. Todays coverage in it was excellent.

TV 3 is certainly back on form these days, good to hear that TV1 hasn't completely thrown in the towel