They're playing very, very well ... these guys they're playing are the best in the world ... we've got to defend really well, which we're doing, and we've also got to create chances which we're doing. So all in all, we're doing the job.– Entertainer and football fan Ray Woolf on the 2010 All White Cup campaign chances
...some of them were quite subdued because they were getting ready to play. But you know, they had a bit of fun and got stuck into it, and the result was great. They sang well. Most of them sang real good.– Ray Woolf on recording 'Heading for the Top' with the All Whites
The vuvuzelas’ deafening din may have, mercifully, receded, but reveries from one of New Zealand sport’s most magical moments remain, 10 years after the All Whites’ famous draw with World Cup champions Italy in South Africa. That barmy, balmy night in Nelspruit — June 20, 2010 — still ranks alongside Sir Edmund Hillary scaling Mt Everest and two gold medals in an hour on the Olympic Games track as unmatched highlights.– Stuff writer Tony Smith celebrates the All Whites' 2010 World Cup achievements, Stuff, 20 June 2021
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