Yellow (8): Gerald, Keith, Kevin, Richard N, Asif, Daniel, Steve, ColinSit back and look at that! 16!!!!!! A corking turnout. Several people dusting off the cobwebs. Nice to see you, to see you, …..!
Yellow struck with their first attack of the game, Keith curling a cross in from the right, Colin got a touch. Control? Shot? Pass? Who knows. Anyway it fell for Daniel to poke in. Steve’s crosses are regular both in quality and quantity, in every game. It’s just a shame we never seem to get on to the end of them to do much them much credit. To finally give some credence to Steve, Daniel got on to the end of a low curling cross to divert the ball in. Tasty and the nonsensical ridicule from Kevin (who wants a mention) had no merit whatsoever – two shots, two goals up. Emil joined us at this point to even up the numbers. Richard N saved a fierce shot from Ahmet from the left. Not much else stands out other than what a great game it was. There was some great passing and numerous attacks from both sides and most were only broken down by some very solid defending from both teams, Kevin and Richard N for Red getting in some hard but fair tackles and for Yellow, Julius and John C were rather effective too.
The second half was much the same, good attacking football. We’re talking quality entertainment here, not a Spanish passing mastercla….zzzzzzzzzz. Ahmet launched another speculative long-ball, a regular route one tactic. It bounced just before the Red goal, bamboozling defender, striker and ultimately Asif the keeper! Some dispute as the whether you can score from goal kicks. Except it wasn’t from a goal kick. Ahmet tried it again immediately afterwards, this time the keeper got fingertips to the ball and it skimmed off the top of the bar. They got an equaliser (I’ve had this saved as a draft for two weeks now but didn’t note down the scorer – apologies) but a diving fingertip save from Daniel turned the ball just round the post to deny Tufan and kept it even (still more ridicule from certain teammates though??). A fair result to smasher of a game.
Final score: Red 2 – 2 Yellow
And just for a laugh, we had penalties. Everyone had a pop and Red won 6-4, Colin’s miss being the worst. “Wide” said the cricket umpire.
Speaking of Creedence, I’m off to a Grateful Dead appreciation society folk/rock/prog festival down in Kent next week having a right rural hippy mind blast so hope it’s far out, man.