By Craig Stephen At the age of 30, Bert Ormond said his goodbyes at Scottish club Dumbarton and left for New Zealand. His career wasn’t going north in his home country, but he made the most of this second chance, … Read More
Auckland Anniversary Day holds a special link with an historic match played under floodlights sixty years ago. On January 27, 1964, Swiss Cup champions FC Basel came to Auckland’s Blandford Park to play a New Zealand team preparing for their … Read More
In early 1973, one of New Zealand’s leading sports commentators, Geoff Sinclair, provided a ‘state of the nation’ review of football, or ‘soccer’ as the sport was widely known at the time. Sinclair, the sports editor of Sunday News, and … Read More
One of New Zealand’s most successful club coaches, Bert Ormond, led Blockhouse Bay to a league-cup double in the inaugural season of the national league in 1970, and he captained New Zealand on their world tour of 1964. He was … Read More
Pioneering coach Bert Ormond joined the roll of recipients of Friends of Football’s Medal of Excellence when he was honoured in 2016. Friends of Football chair John Morris paid tribute to his former coach at an NZ Football-hosted dinner to … Read More