Yellow: Jeremy, JP, Kevin, Richard N, Gerald, Daniel
Red: Richard P, Ed, John G, Neil, Oz, James
6-a-side again, two in a row – good attendence chaps and another good close game. Welcome Neil (sp?). Someone in the yellow team mentioned the words “clean sheet?” a few minutes before half-time as they were 2-0 up and looking solid. A twice-deflected red shot promptly flew in 5 seconds before the break. The gap stayed the same with some good passing from both teams and the game settled at 5-3 with 15 minutes to go. Neil then went down with a serious knee injury during a passage of play and JP ended up with the ball and popped in a legitimate goal 2 seconds later. Sadly Neil couldn’t continue (get well soon sir) so Yellow sportingly scratched off the goal but then Jeremy swapped to Red. Yes, you read that correctly. The goal was scrubbed off AND Yellow (rather than red) went a man down. Jeremy was keen to move. Yellow didn’t want him to go. Red weren’t that enthusiastic either. And he was the one to first shout ‘stop’ when Neil went down. Suspicious behaviour I say. Dodgy betting patterns down the local Peckham bookmakers I wager. Anyway, in the last ten minutes, Red got back 2 goals.
Final Score: Yellow 6-6 Red
Except that’s a farse. WTF?! Scrubbing off a goal AND losing a player? Poo-hah. I’m going to scrub the last 13 minutes of that game from the official stats.
Final final score: Yellow 5-3 Red