The Auckland FC Sentinel
The dugout25 Oct 2027
Luis Felipe Gallegos says Auckland FC went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
Auckland FC tie Patrick Turner down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Match23 Oct 2027
Perth Glory end the Auckland FC run at 8
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 8 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Hiroki Sakai in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Auckland FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match23 Oct 2027
Nobody wins at Auckland FC
10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Auckland FC
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad25 Oct 2027
A row about effort at Auckland FC
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Guillermo May was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market25 Oct 2027
One of our own: Peter Cummings joins the Auckland FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Peter Cummings is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market25 Oct 2027
One of our own: Craig Wallace joins the Auckland FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Craig Wallace is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Caleb Ryan joins the Auckland FC first team
- Market Auckland FC promote Jake O'Neill from within
- Match Perth Glory take the points off Auckland FC