The Real Reds
If you do not like sport, please avert your eyes… In The Rugby Blanket I wrote about the ending of a ‘quarter of a century’ long curse. But that’s not exactly right. It was...
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All-Time Top 10: National Flags
So which came first the chicken or the egg? Surely it was the egg because you can’t get those cute little fluffy baby chicks without first hatching them from eggs. Oh hang on, who...
The Big Day Out Returns…Again
In January 1994 I embarked on an outing with a group of friends. I don’t think any of us knew what we were in for on that day. We knew we were going to...
Asimbonanga
I’ve never felt that growing up in New Zealand distanced me from affairs of an international nature. When the Apartheid-era was near an end and Nelson Mandela still imprisoned, the political system in South...
K.D. Muir’s Sports Quiz
So what did we learn from this sporting week? Kiwis still can’t play soccer – There might be as many Kiwi kids playing soccer as rugby but there is no clear path to a...
Farewell Fats
The Autumn Internationals are well and truly underway which means we will soon be treated to a month of rugby before the All Blacks take a well-earned break over the summer. This time also...
Happy Celtic New Year!!!
I used to think Halloween was an American holiday. And who could blame me. If movies and television were to be believed in my youth, then it was a festivity taken very seriously in...
The Ghost in the Machine
I once dissed Neil Gaiman, a hero of mine, for talking about his hardware on his blog. From memory he left a Macbook Air on the plane. It’s a tragic tale of woe indeed....
Knocking The Bastard Off
We did it! We knocked the bastard off! Not me. Not you. But ‘We’. Not ‘We’ the royal We but ‘We’ the unified national take any credit where we can get it We. What...
All-Time Top 10: Sporting Chokes
See what I did there. I published this before I have to add possibly the biggest sporting choke of all time to the number one position. The event in question is due to occur...
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