Mt Smart 1991 England V All Whites

Mt Smart 1991 England V All Whites

Was anyone else there? Ah the memories... 11 at the time loved it..

i was 5 and there apparently, i have a vague recollection. we still have the england hat my dad bought

Lineker scored at the death didnt he? They played at Athletic Park here. Was friggin freezing

was at the athletic park game - yep it was nippy

i was a ball boy at Athletic Park - hundred year storm that day.

mal dunford should have scored from a corner in the first half. ref should have blown full time 30 second earlier. ahh, what could have been

we wagged the Thursday or Friday afternoon off school and went and watched the England team train at Newtown Park.  Ian Wright took the piss out of our uniform and shoes, and then told us not to bother with school (we were about 14)

I was there at Athletic Park, my mum made me wear my ski gear and for the first half I got the teams mixed up because (I think) the All Whites were playing in a change strip.  Didn't Seuart Pearce get a fairly handy free kick?

your lucky it wasn't played at the RoF JD, the the poles might have been under a metre but you can bet they would have confiscated your skis

(they had that rubbish left winger with the Italian name playing - searching for his name

tony dorigo?

Here is the link to the FA website with the team sheets from the two games...

http://www.thefa.com/England/SeniorTeam/Archive/matchstats.html?m=675
james dean2008-07-16 07:08:05

In the Wellington game, NZ wore the change strip of all red. It was as far as I know the first and last time they ever played in that strip. and they strenously denied that it had anything to do with the corporate colours of their (at the time) sponsor Winfield.

It's a change strip 25 years ago man, let it go

Just saw Crowd stats too - 17500 for Akl, 12000 for Wgtn. Pretty handy attendance..

I remember watching the match on telly.

I read an interview with McGarry a few years later, where he mentioned that moment. If I remember correctly, he said that when he got the ball and looked up, he thought "Brilliant, I am gonna score against England!", and from there it all went horribly wrong.

He is still playing in Dunedin, and is still more than handy.

Wasn't the Wellington game played in gale-force conditions? I watched it on TV and seem to remember Grant Schofield having all sorts of problems with his kicking during one half.

The wellington game was really really bad, hence why I was made to wear my ski gear!!

That's interesting about McGarry. I could never understand how such a fantastic footballer wasn't playing overseas. And it turns out he chose teaching of all things over professional football? Completely bonkers!

As a teacher I can understand his personal philosophy. It's all about job satisfaction. I guess it was a case of doing a world of good or schleping around the likes of Hartlepool, Rochdale and Exeter City...

Stopout it was 1978 on June 11 1978 England "B" 3 NZ 1.

I still have a signed ball of the whole England team. Its a bit faded now however. Got it from a friend who was working at the Hotel they were staying at (now the Duxton). I was a stoked young man.

England B also played two matches in Christchurch as part of that visit.

If I remember correctly, They Played the old Christchurch United (Trans Tours United "TTU" as they were) at QEII in an afternoon match, that for some reason i think was 2-2, but seems a bit unlikely? I was about 10, and me and some others tried to get Viv Anderson's autograph just before kick-off, but while he was friendly enough, the man in the white coat with the clip board chased us off pretty quickly. Never did get the autograph.

They also played NZ in a night game at English Park, and I think the score for that was 5-0 to England B.

In one of the matches, Paul Marriner, who I think had just won the FA cup with Ipswich, got concussed, so missed the other match. Can't remember which match was first- the TTU  or the NZ one.

Alfie was my hero, an effing genius on the ball. Check out my article that covered three issues in Soccer Talk.

Was at Athletic Park as well - our school laid on a bus from Palmy. Can rememeber all these kids hanging around the tunnel to collect autographs and being pushed back by stewards.

I was the liaison person for the England team during their stay in Wellington. Well, as it turned out, I finished up being the Liaison for the 20 officials and hardly got to talk to the players. The day before the game, three of the G & T guys decided they wanted to go out and have a look at a local football club. I remember thinking, Sh*t, this is going to be embarrassing! The three were all members of the F.A. International Committee and chairmen or ex chairmen of their clubs, Liverpool, Blackburn and Birmingham.  I took them to Petone, (always the wipping boys). As it turned out  they were quite impressed and interested in the club structure and depth, given that it was so different to England.
Can say though, that I have been in an England dressing room before and after the game and, do you know, they all put their shorts on the same way as you guys. One leg at a time.
NZ Manager of the day, Ian Marshall. (Gentleman). Big creds to Ian Rodgers for organinsing that visit. Amazing the detail that he had to go into.

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Tony Dorigo?

Liverpool Arsenal and Spurs were all playing in Japan at the time.

anyone remember the "young brazil" team that came out? I went to western springs and watched them play the All Whites.  I was two young to worry about holding on the the program and following up to see if any of the players went on to anything special. 

They played in the Hutt Valley as well. One of three internationals hosted at the Hutt Rec during the days of Hutt Valley United.

Like you I misplaced the programme, but I did get one of their shirts. Just the same as the hundreds of replicas around now though.

am i right in saying that we are unbeaten at the hutt rec?