The kit is one of the ugliest I have ever seen in the PL. The only one that I can think of that is uglier was Liverpool's when they decided to put flames on it.
Good to see Chong have a great game. No doubt he will carry that form into his first couple of first team opportunities until he is hit with the manager's negativity stick and bottoms out to mediocrity.
The youth academy year on year pumps out players who are fearless and efficient. Yet we haven't seen an ounce of that mentality in the first team for 5 years.
I realise we've literally had only one run out this year. But every time a CA player touched the ball even with 7 United defenders around him we felt under pressure. Contrast every time one of our forwards are within 1 metre of a CA defender, they lost the ball. It's so unusual.
And this would be considered horrific at a Awakairangi Park 14th grade game:
