Who remembers the visits of Wolves, QPR, Dinamo...

Who remembers the visits of Wolves, QPR, Dinamo...

Seeing the chat on the other thread about Everton's visit made me think of when visits like that were more regular....

Anyone remember..

Wolves
QPR
Tottenham
Sheffield United (x2)
Blackpool
Stoke City (Banks AND Hurst)
Hertha Berlin
FK Radnicki   (WHO is allowed...)
Bristol Rovers
Bournemouth
Dinamo Minsk
Russia B (which may well have been Russia D)
Jardines (another WHO...)
Hearts
Wales 'B'
FC Zurich
VSS Kosice
HERTHA 03
AS Jeunes (Tahiti?)
Iran ('73 played Canterbury and NZ)
Hellas
Aberdeen
Middlesborough
Rangers
Man Utd (x2)
Sunderland




Others?
dairyflat2009-03-04 12:46:55

I'd love to see any of those teams now except maybe the last one that I've never heard of.

You forgot the Galaxy.
loyalgunner2009-03-04 12:16:12

I went to the QPR v Wellington Selection game at the Basin Reserve in 1982 and Watford also came here to play NZ for some World Cup warm up games. That must have been around 1982 as well. I went to the Athletic Park game and sat in the Millard Stand. Great view from up there.

QPR 2 Wellington Select 0, I was there and at Spurs at the basin and Sheffield United and England "B". Then at Athletic park they had the full England International. Paul Parker was playing.

That's right. Luton did play at the Basin! That was a laugh. Terrible night as I remember,. My friend got fed up with the photographer's flash and went and told him off.

I remember Gothenburg came and played a coupkle of friendlies against All Whites circa 89?

Jardines is/was a Hong Kong club named after the Scottish businessman who set up shop in the colonial days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardines_(football)
They be the ones...



Particularly Bournemouth. They absolutely hammered everyone except Wellington. Mind you, that game was played in terrible weather. They were just so professional.
dairyflat2009-03-04 13:03:53

Watford and Hungary in 82

Yes... awful... worst. crowd. ever.

I remember Watford.

New Zealand 4-0 Mexico. 20th August 1980. Bill McKinlay Park.
This was the game that first made me think we could go somewhere.
Lucky i'm tall as i arrived late and had to stand in a corner at the back.
B. Turner 2, G. Turner 1, and S. Woddin 1.
Happy days.

Watford in 82, I was at their game in CHCH, also Hearts once came here for a couple of games.

I see John Barnes was in the squad for those Watford games. Wonder if he played.
Also The League of Ireland came in may 82 with one Jim Beglin in their squad. They played games in Auckland,Rotorua,Gisborne,Dunedin and Invercargill.

Didn't England come here in 91 or 92?

I'm guessing this is the one from Nis in Serbia - think they're in 3rd Serbian division now.

Have fallen by the wayside mightily.

When did Aberdeen come here?

Oh, and FK Austria came here in the 50s. I read it in a Soccer Talk once.

I don't remember the full story but Radnicki were brought out, I believe  on the whim of some guy in Wellington who supported them. Excellent!!  I think, THINK, they played a match against Adriatic.

Reading some on the Nix/Everton thread it's clear that if their thinking had applied in the past very few of these teams would ever have come here.

That's awesome.

I'll go on the blower now, and maybe Dinamo will come over for pre-season...

I would like to say I played a part in QPR coming out here in '83 after my tme there in 1980. Perhaps the then club secretary (The Tony Pignata equivalent) Ron Phillips could answer that however he left the club about 1987 to do other things.

The CF website has the FK Radnicki result as...
18.Jan.73 FK Radnicki Basin Reserve, Wellington 1 5

Great thread DF. thanks for starting it, it brings back some great memories such as the awesome floodlighting at the Basin Reserve to mind.

1975(ish), I'll ask my friend he's the guru.


When I went to Minsk, in 1987, I was being shipped from Great Patriotic War memorial to Great Patriotic War memorial (hugely sobering) and the Intourist guide said "do you want to see anything else in our beautiful city?". I said that I would like to see Dinamo Minsk's ground.  I explained that they had played in Wellington. Well now, football really is a universal language. ...and off we went to the ground. The guide had gone from glum jobsworth to cheery comrade-in-football in a nano-second.

I went to All Whites V Hungary & Watford pre Spain 1982.

Went to the Wolves game, my parents came from Belfast and we had Irish legends Derek Duggan and Danny Hagan round home for dinner, still have the photos somewhere.

Derek Duggan, now there was a goal scorer Ricki would like to have had!!

Derek Dougan.

Remember that great football straight from the kickoff. Three touches, as I remember it, and then the crossbar was rattled.