Fifty years ago, the Chatham Cup final was staged at Auckland’s Newmarket Park — the first time it had been played away from Wellington’s Basin Reserve. Only replays had taken the showcase event away from the capital — including the … Read More
Forty years ago, football’s national body made the controversial decision to take the Chatham Cup final to Gisborne. The 1983 final, between Gisborne City and Mount Wellington, was widely expected to be staged at Mount’s Bill McKInlay Park or at … Read More
For 20-year-old Graham Dacombe, it was the greatest game of football he ever played — four goals in a Chatham Cup final, a match the newspaper headlines later billed as ‘Dacombe’s epic cup final’. It was the classic 1972 Chatham … Read More
Aucklander Jim Aris, one of the first players to take part in national league football in the 1970s, has died, aged 80. Aris played for the highly successful Mount Wellington club in the Rothmans Soccer League’s opening seasons, and for … Read More