Red: Daniel, Oz, Liam, Jean, Richard P, James C
Yellow: Ahmet, Richard N, Kevin, Jim, Frederico, Eliseu
Yellow: Ahmet, Richard N, Kevin, Jim, Frederico, Eliseu
Sun! A gentle warmth upon us all. Tim Webb (a once-upon-a-time player) sauntered past as three of us waited for the rest. Which prompted the usual conversation of the comical brotherly own goal. An omen…..? (If you didn’t witness the quite amazing feat of two brothers defending on the same team, arguing about who was going to take control of the ball which was slowly and harmlessly trickling towards their goal with neither taking control, eventually stumbling and tripping over each other, landing in a heap and knocking the ball over the line – the event immediately became the stuff of legend. Just ask someone who was there. Anyway, I think I’ve made my point that it might be relevant to this game). Paulo was on his way back to Brazil – thank you sir. However, Jean introduced Eliseu, another Brazilian annoyingly no worse than Paulo! And aside from all the tricks, none of them are greedy either, regular passes to involve everyone. Once again, we doff our caps.
And off we go…oh, hang on, it’s too narrow. We change the width and start again. But as we’re six a-side we make it 42 minutes each way, seven minutes in goal each. Which, Richard P pointed out, is nearly 45 minutes….just sowing the seed…..
Liam, in his own half, volleyed from a throw and it almost looped into the top corner except for a finger tip save from the new Brazilian. He seems to have settled into a showboat-shot-of the week kind of chap with several impressive efforts, both today and in general.
A dopey family walked across the pitch.
Daniel fluffed two lovely crosses from Oz. He completely missed a header and unfounded accusations of ducking immediately followed. And he knocked the other one onto the post, rebounding to the safe feet of a defender. He’d got a couple earlier though, passing to Jean for the second, continuing his run down the wing and cutting in behind the defence to receive the ball back from Jean and firing in. Unusually good.
A crow flew over during half time with an impressively large slice of pizza in it’s mouth. I do wonder sometimes, how many interesting little observations (aside from football) we’ve witnessed over the last few years……
And off we go…oh, hang on, it’s too narrow. We change the width and start again. But as we’re six a-side we make it 42 minutes each way, seven minutes in goal each. Which, Richard P pointed out, is nearly 45 minutes….just sowing the seed…..
Liam, in his own half, volleyed from a throw and it almost looped into the top corner except for a finger tip save from the new Brazilian. He seems to have settled into a showboat-shot-of the week kind of chap with several impressive efforts, both today and in general.
A dopey family walked across the pitch.
Daniel fluffed two lovely crosses from Oz. He completely missed a header and unfounded accusations of ducking immediately followed. And he knocked the other one onto the post, rebounding to the safe feet of a defender. He’d got a couple earlier though, passing to Jean for the second, continuing his run down the wing and cutting in behind the defence to receive the ball back from Jean and firing in. Unusually good.
A crow flew over during half time with an impressively large slice of pizza in it’s mouth. I do wonder sometimes, how many interesting little observations (aside from football) we’ve witnessed over the last few years……
And not one but two, yes two, own goals between Richard N (clearly the “Tim” conversation was playing on his mind) and Kevin on his first game since October 16th – welcome back.
The first one happened on the goal line with Liam ending up with the ball and Kevin and Richard N as keeper and defender. No one was ever in control of the shot/save/parry but the ball seemed to be deflected around the same very small space at least 10 times and finally Richard and Kevin combined to knock the ball over. Amusing. Then James C made a nuisance of himself with a high cross coming in. Richard N and Kevin, once again as keeper and defender made a hash of doing both and knocked the ball in again whilst falling over each other and then carrying on to knock the goal over. I don’t think James even got a touch. Laughter all around, the Yellow defending circus welcomes you! Dah dah dududah dah dah dah……
The first one happened on the goal line with Liam ending up with the ball and Kevin and Richard N as keeper and defender. No one was ever in control of the shot/save/parry but the ball seemed to be deflected around the same very small space at least 10 times and finally Richard and Kevin combined to knock the ball over. Amusing. Then James C made a nuisance of himself with a high cross coming in. Richard N and Kevin, once again as keeper and defender made a hash of doing both and knocked the ball in again whilst falling over each other and then carrying on to knock the goal over. I don’t think James even got a touch. Laughter all around, the Yellow defending circus welcomes you! Dah dah dududah dah dah dah……
Yellow always seemed to be just in front with Red always equalizing. When eventually Red did pull ahead near the end they couldn’t hold on to the lead.
Final score: Red 6 – 6 Yellow