Big interview with goalie Andy McNeil (ex-Hibs & Scotland u-21) in the Edinburgh Evening News, one of the big papers there:
It's a great advertisement for Wai-Bop and football in NZ - the guy's really positive about us and our summer football.
Compares NZ as a developing football country with Scotland where it's going backwards fast.
He finds the games here more enjoyable with our beer tents, barbeques and after-match meals with the opposition.
Sounds like his experiences of Scottish football in recent years weren't great and wages and crowds are spiralling downwards fast.
People go to games just to moan about how bad things are...
On his time in the Southampton youth team with Gareth Bale, Theo Walcott, Nathan Dyer and some interesting comments on low wages in Scottish football:
We could pick up some decent players from Scotland as wages decrease and NZ seems a more attractive proposition just as it did back in the '70's and '80's when talented players like 19 year-old John McGinlay came to play for North Shore in 1983 and returned to Britain to end up playing for Bolton and Scotland (top-scorer & a title winner in the English second tier and an English Premier League player), teenagers Jonathan Gould and Brian McAllister played for Napier City Rovers and went back to play for Scotland plus Celtic and Wimbledon/ Aston Villa respectively, whilst Dundee United first-choice goalkeeper Sandy Davie finished his career here in the late '70's - early 80's with North Shore and Mount Wellington, also playing for the All Whites.