Actually I think he is right - the point of playing football is to win. We won. That most people want to overlook this and complain about the style of play suggests that all these people are missing the point.
Yes the football was boring. I had recorded the final as I was traveling and could only watch the first 50 minutes before turning it off and checking the result online. But we won. Hudson has kept up his part of the bargain for NZF, now hopefully NZF will do their bit and give the coach and the team some meaningful games in the next few international windows.
We won in spite of how we played. Not because of it. We should have been knocked out in the semis.
I looked at it as PNG lost the Final, rather than the AWs won it.
No-one lost the final - the game was a draw. The winner of the tournament was decided through a tie-breaking system technically known as kicks from the penalty mark.
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