New Zealand stadium authorities have moved swiftly to ensure the vuvuzelas providing an ear-splitting backdrop to the soccer World Cup in South Africa are unlikely to be heard at next year’s rugby equivalent.
A junior football referee has cried foul after a Sunshine Coast league red-carded him, saying he was too fat.
Disability pensioner Peter Dicks, 62, disputes the Sunshine Coast Churches Soccer Association’s assertion that he was dumped for being too unfit.
Assistant referee Paul Cook has been suspended for three rounds of the New Zealand Football Championship (NZFC) over an altercation with a player during a match between Canterbury United and Manawatu in Christchurch on February 7.
New Zealand Football (NZF) said today Cook will be suspended until March 15 for his part in an incident involving Manawatu player Cory Chettleburgh.
A couple of months back, when he was making plans for October, Matthew Breeze was faced with an unusual dilemma. Would he tackle the NSW Bar practice course, or officiate at the under-17 Soccer World Cup in Nigeria?
A referee in a Midlands Division Two Soccer League A was assaulted during a championship match between favourites Hardbody and Clemkwa Gweru United at Gweru Sports Club. Thomas Kusosa was assaulted soon after awarding Hardbody a penalty towards the end of the match with United leading 1-0.