Rising from the ashes

Rising from the ashes

To help you bandwagon jumpers out there Critic has done some homework and come up with three comments you can make that will make it sound like you know something about the Phoenix, other than that they wear Black and Yellow.

  1. “The Yellow Fever are the Phoenix’s loyal supporters group. When the Phoenix are leading with 10 minutes to go all members (including females) will take off their yellow and black shirts and wave them around their heads for the rest of the match”.
  2. “Paul Ifill is one of the Phoenix’s best players. He is English but plays internationally for Barbados because of his ancestry. When he is not injured he is one of the Phoenix’s most potent attacking weapons and is probably their biggest goal scoring threat”.
  3. “The Phoenix used to be owned by greasy Wellington property tycoon Terry Serepisos. Since his property portfolio went down the tube he became too poor to pay the bills and had to sell the Phoenix to a consortium of Wellington businessmen. The new owners have promised coach Ricky Herbert the funds to build an even stronger squad for the 2013 season which could mean the Phoenix win their first title”.

There you go, now you can sound smart.
This article first appeared in Issue 7, 2012.
Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Gus Gawn.