Yellow: Kevin, Colin, Daniel, Femi, Sundy
Red: Larry, Lee, Damon, Francisco, Alan
And as we kicked off a whippet decided to run off with one of the pitch markers of the adjacent aussie rules ladies game. The owner strolled long, shouting and demanding that the dog come back but it just ran away. After about 30 yards it stopped, looked back affectionately, wagging it’s tail, dropped the cone, cocked it’s leg and pissed on it. The owner eventually caught up and returned the marker to it’s original position. Just as the dog ran off with another one.
John then rocked up 20 minutes into the game but with even sides he felt guitly about unsettling the match and forlornly trudged home.
For about three quarters of the game another team tried to assemble their own Samba goals, the completion of the second one received a well-earned sarcastic and patronising round of applause from us.
Finally, in the 78th minute, someone other than Femi and Sundy scored for Yellow, Colin finally connecting well with a lay off. Sundy had crossed and laid-off a-plenty for Daniel who managed to either shoot narrowly wide or at the keeper on several occasions but he hasn’t scored since mid-March and it showed. But Red had their own problems in front of goal with Larry and Damon both comically missing a gilt-edged chances but they’d both made a spectacular save each, Larry punching away Daniel’s off-the-thigh shot from another zipping Sundy cross shot at close range and Damon tipping a shot over the bar. It was closer than the scoreline suggests but Sundy was the difference.
Final score: Yellow 10 – 7 Red