A conflict is building between New Zealand soccer and an English Championship club over the services of striker Rory Fallon.

Wellington's flashes of fervent soccer support have seen it become the unofficial home of the professional game.

It's been a funny old year for sport. Paul Lewis looks at some of the oddest, most bizarre and brightest moments of the year across all sports.

The year 2010 will be the one that enters the annals of New Zealand football history but 2009 was the breakthrough year, writes Michael Brown.

Rugby has dominated New Zealand sport for 130 years, but the mould may have been broken in 2009.