Kevin Fallon has one of the best regular football blogs by any NZ player or coach. Well worth a look.
http://www.mags.school.nz/Story?Action=View&Story_id=6763
Kev's a complex man - while known & disliked by some for his occasional bad temper/ bad behaviour/ aggression/ foul language,
on the other hand he has completed a degree in English Literature as an adult student and has long had a love of the English Romantic poets and classic novels. Lover of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats etc.
Admirer of Jack Kerouac novel "On the Road" since he was a young footballer forty years ago...
Anyone who recommends Irish music documentary & CD "The Swell Season" (Glen Hansard) as he does on his blog, can't be all bad.
Irish Catholic background gives him a brooding spiritual intensity, a love of language and poetry.
A friend of mine from Nelson who was close to the Nelson United team coached by Kevin in the 1970's remembers Kevin attending an all-night party with his team and then suddenly leaving at 6 am to make the early mass at the local Nelson convent with the nuns!