A new season begins and a lot of the old, and I mean OLD, faces turned up but a lot didn’t, injuries, wasting weekends with their families and a number of other feeble excuses had us struggling to put a team on the park. With Stingray opting to play reserves so he can do the horses later on gave us strength in the midfield and Digger having a commitment at 3 pm made us feel quite confident going into the game. The prematch
talk included a practise session of calling out “Piero” in Italian so that he knows we want a pass from him. That’s because saying “Piero” in English all last season didn’t deliver a pass from him all year. Luton volunteered to go in goal and Sean learnt the hard way not to be too friendly and ended up getting referee duties. Alain found himself cast in a new role as sweeper and organiser of the defence which created some language problems between his Hebrew and the Dutch of Rene sounding as though they were swearing at each other all day, which they weren’t they kept offering encouragement to each other. Toddy and Dave, our new man from Madrid, completed the back line and didn’t have a worry all day as St. Michaels only wandered into our half twice in the whole first half. It’s a cliche that a scoreboard doesn’t represent how a game went, but after half an hour we should have been 7 or 8 up. The Man and Piero were creating havoc with their runs down the wings and Stingray and Digger had total control of the midfield, which wouldn’t translate into goals with Stingray the main culprit. In the 28th minute Stingray launched a 25 metre missile which left their keeper grasping for thin air and so we relaxed a little believing the deluge was about to begin, DMW had a header from a corner saved followed by a disallowed goal from Evil, disallowed because their linesman waved for offside when Evil and The Man were at least 5 metres on. Halftime came and Luton came onto the park as The Jackal took over keeping duties, Guy and The Don came off the bench and had a run up front and we continued our dominance without the goals until Stingray went on a solo run (what am I talking about, that’s all he does) but this time skipped past two or three defenders and slipped it into the bottom corner. A well deserved victory and moving up a division may put us under a bit more pressure than we had last year.
Man Of The Match……………………..Stingray-two goals.
Mug Of The Day………………………..Rene—for hiding last week’s Bugle (regarding keys in car) from his wife and then having to defend himself on the touchline before the game.
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