Red: Jack, Adam, Dan, Richard, James
Yellow: JP, Jeremy, Tufan, Jared
Gerald cancelled, leaving Jared to be dropped of at Jeremy’s. Only Jared didn’t get the message and arrived at the lock-up on his own leaving Jeremy waiting somewhere, like an unpopular prostitute. James returned after a serious surfing injury…he can pee!! And along with Tufan recovering in time for the game, they both said they’d take it easy. We found a very bobbly pitch and that excuse was used for almost every touch.
Richard turned in the box and shot, nutmegging the defender and keeper. Two swift replies came on the break, Tufan committing the keeper and passed for JP to side foot in and a minute later the favour was returned, a through ball from JP evaded the defence leaving an un-marked Tufan at the back post for the simplest tap-in. Richard got an equaliser to leave it all 2 – 2 at the break. James and Tufan definitely weren’t taking it easy.
JP and Jared put Yellow 4 – 2 up. Jeremy realised his aerial balls were causing chaos in the box so launched a barrage in the second half,…throw ins, goal kicks, the whole shebang. Sadly the new tactic backfired. With numbers pushing up to get on the end of the high balls, they were left short at the back and Red profitted with quick counter-attacks. Daniel diverted in a shot from Jack who insisted it was going in anyway, the opposition clarified that it definitely wasn’t. He got another too and with Richard and Adam adding to the goals they scored four without reply. Jared got a gnat’s willy of a touch on one of Jeremy’s bombardment to keep the game on a knife-edge but mostly it was just chaos in the box. Whilst being closed down from either side on another break, Daniel chose to shoot early and Jeremy could do nothing to stop the goalbound shot. JP roared with ecstasy thinking he’d equalised with the clocking ticking down. He also dished out some uncharacteristic defending advice. Red, despite repeated yelling to just keep possession in the last few minutes, couldn’t. But yellow were unable to take advantage and the whistle blew. As we packed up it was pointed out to J happy-with-a-draw P that Yellow had still been a goal down. He took it well.
A hattrick of hattricks for Richard, JP and Dan.
Final score: Red: 7 – 6 Yellow