Max Crocombe's International Adventure

Picture from FIFA.com It's not been much of a summer break for Max Crocombe. While most of his team-mates have been relaxing throughout the summer, he has been busy preparing to join his New Zealand teammates at the Under-20 World Cup in Turkey. New Zealand were not particularly fancied, understandably, but the tournament offered Crocombe a great opportunity to test himself against high standard opposition...

Where Did It All Go Right?

As usual at this time of year, with no football to watch and comment on, our footballing attentions tend to be divided between two activities: transfer gossip and deconstructing the season just gone. It's popularly agreed that our season was undone by a quite ridiculous injury list which ruled out key players for much of the season, leaving us woefully undermanned for the rigours of a 46-game season. That's probably...