White Out !

The guy on the left had just finished gesturing and shaking his head repeatedly at the guy dressed like him further down with the Tui stubbie.
"He's not one of us!"
The first 3 minutes had me thinking this was going to be a hiding. 2 corners to Bahrain in 2 minutes with nothing going right for us. But by half time the better chances had certainly been ours, a flip flop from the away leg in Bahrain. Once again we didn't get replays of the contentious stuff and the tackle that led to the penalty looked OK to me but replays clearly show it was deserved with Lockhead beaten.

We were 5 seats along from the Bahrain supporters - who kept up a continual din of drums and bloody trumpet things doing snake-charmer/belly-dance music drowned out or silent only when we scored and the penalty missed.
The missed penalty really rocked them badly - serious faced, they stared at the Whited Out fans at the fence when this happened. Some of whom were giving vigorous fingers toward them.
I could have been back at Waikato Stadium!

Started filming this a few seconds before full-time - feel the change in atmosphere.

I've never seen so many beer throwing shirtless fans at full time.
Just fantastic for the kids to be there and see history made.


Nice to see Jim Bolger can still look after his own bag. Bahrain team Airbus A340 is in the rear of shot and flew out just before we took off back to the 'Tron.