Prince Charles Park, Nadi, for a semi-final national league match between Labasa (red-and-white strip) and Nadi (green strip) |
Meli Vuilabasa (Ba), K. James, Henry Dyer (Nadi), 2/6/2015 |
Henry Dyer and Meli Vuilabasa (Ba), 2/6/2015 |
Savenaca Waqa (seated) with officials, Oct 2014 |
Henry Dyer (left) and Inosi Tora (Nadi), late 2014 |
K. James and Shiu Naicker (Nadi), Oct 2014 |
[By the former Fiji national team player Henry
Dyer, as told to Dr Kieran James of University of Fiji in Nadi, 5 June 2014. This revised and updated version is dated 9 July 2015.]
Emasi Koroi ("Bacardi") (left) and Peter Dean. Both played for Nadi in the 1982 IDC Final against Ba. Today Peter Dean drives a public bus on the Nadi-Lautoka route. |
I watched that game as a kid. During the penalty shoot-out, Ba's Julie Sami had his spot-kick stopped by Savenaca Waqa, but in typical Ba-fashion Sami maabaged to sweet-talk the refree into ordering a re-kick which he duly converted.Ba have always been champions of swaying FFA officials and nothing has ever changed in that regard.
ReplyDeleteit was a memorable story.tks dyer.
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