Red (7): Matt, Rob, Oz, Ahmet, Jeremy, JJ, Steve
Yellow (6): Richard N, Richard P, JP, Gerald, Daniel, James

A soggy patch on Peckham Rye. In a rare move the teams were picked by two captains but with a late arrival absorbed by red, it was going to be an uphill stuggle for the oppostion. Jeremy got the first goal of the season but yellow got one back quick-sharp and then surprisingly pulled away with three goals including a lovely left foot curler from JP and an indirect free kick being rolled across the goal and Daniel finding the only gap amongst the 7 men filling the goal mouth. Oz replied 5 minutes before the end with a nice turn and a quick shot to beat Daniel at the near post. Yellow 4-2 Red at the break.
Red finally got into gear after the break using JJ and Steve on the wings and dominated midfield although Jeremy’s cynical dive wasn’t warranted with their superior height and numbers. Amid stupidly sloppy conditions for both teams red scored two goals against the hitherto stalwart yellow defense with Rob equalising half way through the second half. Yellow found an extra spurt in the last 10 minutes but got nothing from a handful of scrappy chances. Final score 4 – 4.
Great attendence – a sterling game indeed.

Names for next Sunday please, 10.30am, Peckham Rye.

Report by James

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Snow on the pitch, if we had an orange ball we’d have looked all 1970’s.  With the addition of 3 randoms from the earlier game and the lack of bibs we organized ourselves by top-colour….

The Red-ish/light six – JP, James, Rich N, Rich P, Matt + Jo (random)
The Black/blue/dark five – Oz, Ahmet, JJ, Gareth + Danny (randoms)

It became quickly apparent that the blue randoms were very good and the red one not so, which helpfully made for a good balanced game.  Defensive errors and sharp finishing (ok, and maybe some good passing) saw blue leading 5-2 at half time.  Second half was a different story with a self-chastised Red going on a scoring run to get to about 10-7, which became 12-12 with a minute to go (suspicion that blue might have had a goal that counted two, it was as confusing as where the pitch boundaries were).  This allowed James to finish the game by getting hopelessly dispossessed by Danny who slotted home coolly.

13-12 to blue (maybe).  Fun in the snow!

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Report by El Capitano.

Red (4): JP, Stuart, Richard P, Daniel
Yellow (4): Jeremy, Oz, Ed, Steve

Another game that won’t have any highlights on the annual DVD except maybe my comedy headed clearance. A non-classic, scrappy affair but thanks for coming to the last game of 2009.

A settled first half closed at 4-4. Plenty of missed chances at both ends but with the muddiest pitch of the winter cutting up, not very surprising. Yellow had a resolute second half with 5 goals and only letting in one in return.

Final score: Yellow 9-5 Red.

A special mention to Ed who was particularly effective, maybe you should have a daughter every week – Congratulations!

Please may I have names of those coming to annual awards dinner on Friday 15th Janaury so I can book a table for the right number of people. (JP, Oz, you’re already on the list)

“Their” match report:

Peckham Rye FC (Lee, Gareth, Pete, Calum, Joe, Kevin) Vs The Estate Agents

The weather was looking so bad when I set off I nearly didn’t bother. Luckily it had cleared up by the time I’d arrived. Unfortunately everybody else must have been thinking the same thing. With a grand total of three players (thanks Pete and Lee) it didn’t look like we were going to get a game. Just as we were about to give up and leave, Joe turned up with 2 mates (Calum and Kevin), all we need was the Estate agents to turn up and it was game on. And turn up they did. They give us an another player but we were still a man down. I didn’t matter we had the quality to make up for it. We didn’t let them play and pressured them from the front. Joe forced their defense into making a loose pass I picked up the ball and tucked it away to start us off. I then hit a beauty towards the top corner it bounced back off the angle and Pete buried it 2 – 0. The Estate agents hit back with a goal from JP but Calum then skipped past half their team and neatly rolled it in to restore the 2 goal gap. 3 – 1 half time.

Second half was a little tighter they lost the extra men which strangely seemed to make them play better. I broke down the wing hit a cross that was deflected in 4 – 1. They hit straight back with another goal(JP again). Then came the goal of the game Kevin played the ball across the back to Lee, Lee played an nice ball down the line to Pete, Pete looked up and played a pass into me on the edge of the box, I saw Calum breaking through and played a back heal into his path which he finished to aplomb. 5 – 2 Fabio are you watching. Calum then went on another Maradona style run he went right into the heart of their defense and wrapped up his hat-trick in style. The Agents got a late consolation but the job was done.

Final Score – 6 – 4

Man of the Match – Calum for a great all round performance.

“Their” match report:

Peckham Rye FC (David, Gareth Pete, Xavier, Joe, Kieran) Vs The Estate Agents

On a very wet November day we only managed to get 6 to turn up, bad show lads. We decided to play a 3 aside game until the Estate Agents arrived. Fortunately for us the estate agents were also short on numbers so we challenged them to a game. The Estate agents were a man down but they were up for it, unfortunately for them so were we. The game started a little tight as we struggle to get are passing going. The breakthrough came from a long throw to the back post from Pete which I happily volleyed in. The flood gate opened with goals from Xavier, Pete and Kieran soon making it 5 – 0. With David putting in a fine performance in at the back the Estate Agents were struggle to break through. They managed to get one back just before half time to keep things interesting. Half Time 5 – 1

Second half was pretty much the same with the extra man really making the difference. We continued to create chances with Xavier and Myself grabbing another goal each. They start started to put up a bit of a fight and scored a couple of goals 7 – 3. Then came the goal of the game, David broke out of defense beat two players and drilled a shot low and hard into the bottom right corner. It just clipped the post on the way in, great goal! With Joe now the only player to have not scored in our team he made it his sole purpose in life to get the ball in the back of the net. He’d already managed to hit the post, the crossbar and have one cleared of the line. It just wasn’t happening for him. He didn’t give up he kept the pressure on their defense and he final got his just deserts when he caught the defending napping and nicked in to score, at last. He immediately went up and field and scored again just for good measure. They scored a consolation just before then end and the game finished.

Final Score 10 – 5

Man of the match – David for some solid defending and a great goal