Red: Kevin, Daniel, Oz, Tufan, Martin, Jim, Keith, (Ahmet)
Yellow: Alan, Prit, Phil, Rob, Chris, Henny, (Isaac, Sunny)
We had eight, they had six so Ahmet, on his first game back after a month (a month!) of holiday, kindly swapped to even the sides – thank you sir. It’s over a week since the game and my notes, although no doubt good for prompting my memory at the time, don’t mean much to me now. Oz started us off with a tight-angled goal from the right. This was after about ten minutes and not much happened for a while but Red did have the upper hand and finally made a break through to settle the game with Martin taking possession down the left channel and after what seemed an age of looking at the ball, looking at the goal, pondering the idea, lining up and preparing to shoot and looking at both again, he eventually fired in a corker across the goal and inside the far post. Goal of the game. Tufan added a third and we looked good.
3-0 to Red at half time.
However, Sunny and Isaac, who’d turned up after 11.00am and loitered then joined Yellow and we got Ahmet back. Two pairs of fresh substitute legs, particularly good ones at that. We kept them quiet for the first ten minutes of the restart but these additions paid dividends, a hatrick for Sunny and another with no reply meant the turnaround was complete. And all the more galling for Ahmet who’d effectively lost 7-0.
Final score: Red 3 – 4 Yellow