COMMENT:
Two days to go then. After an interminable wait, hey it's only been 525 days but who's counting, the number one football side in NZ will finally play a game again this Friday morning.
The All Whites kick-off vs The Republic of Ireland in what's hopefully the first step towards World Cup qualification 2022 in Kuwait.
Why have we not played in so long you ask? Don't. Just don't. It's a long boring story full of indecision and incompetence, in fact one of the worst periods of administrative idiocy the sport's ever witnessed in this country - and that really is saying something.
The New Zealand Football board which happily employed Andy Martin as CEO deserve to be outed and publicly shamed for the mess they've caused but like most of their counterparts in this country, (another fine example being the bozos from Bike NZ who let coach Anthony Peden run amok), they've escape with personal reputations unsullied and precious CV's intact.