You can’t say any of that out loud! The Football Ferns have always been wonderful and treating them like professional sports people who can be criticised for poor performances is not okay! Really disappointed to hear this from Bowen.
The local football media has worked hard to find the positives from the dross we’d been served up pre-cup. Lucky they didn’t ask many of the fans. If that’s the mentality in the Ferns camp you’d think we won’t be building on these performances at all.
A lot of people came out to see you and your sport. Pretending you were good pre-cup and that there’s nothing to see here won’t keep them coming back. One miserable performance in the rain and that’s that for the new casual fans.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/fifa-womens-world-cup-2023/132720366/fifa-womens-world-cup-the-politics-of-criticism-in-womens-football