Red: Chris, Karim, Danny, Daniel, Oz, Julius
Yellow: Kevin, Ahmet, Jim, Prit, David, Richard
Seven of us and five nice hairdressing representatives makes a pleasant 6-a-side.
Daniel started in goal and his first clearance landed straight at their first man who chipped it back over the keeper….predictably bad. Richard Norman doubled the lead with a tight shot from the left just going inside the top of the far post. Lovely. Danny began the fightback with a belter from the right wing half way up the pitch – that bloke can’t half hit it! Karim went in goal after about fifteen minutes with what looked like a hamstring problem. Oz fired at the Yellow goal and just when it looked like Kevin had it covered, Daniel, running in from the side, managed to a. unsight the keeper and b. stretch his leg out and just touch the ball with a stud to add the slightest deflection to divert it in. He almost got another shortly after with a lovely throughball, the keeper arrived at the same time and the ball rolled out of the collision towards the goal but Kevin heroicly slid in to clear off the line. Jim went on a run. It wasn’t mazey, quite straight in fact – his knock-the-ball-on-and-run-past-the-man manouevre. I’ve mocked it in the past but he pulled it off this time…against three consecutive members of the opposition!! And then scored!!!!! A great solo effort. But that was Yellow’s problem – they all seemed to playing their own game against a fluid Red team. But there was a man of the match in there for sure who made sure Red didn’t have to worry….Karim!!!! Despite barely being unable to run/move with any rapidity he pulled off the most amazing number of saves, a lot of which were individually impressive but also collectively astounding.
Final score: Red 13 – 5 Yellow