Red: Tim, Andrew, Daniel
Yellow: Jeremy, JP
3 vs 2. We believed! Small pitch, hard work out. First 10 minutes goalless. Then a tit-for-tat middle 40 minutes with plenty of goals, chances, saves and yellow 1 goal up with 10 minutes to go. They played the more inventive football with some tasty strikes from JP while red were uninspiringly formulaic but it worked. 4 goals in the last 10 minutes. Final score 13 – 9 to red.
Red: Oz, Jim M, Tim, Dan + any one of the four randoms.
Yellow: James, JP, Richard N + any two of the four randoms
Just as we were about to start off, two randoms joined us. One of which then spent the first half phoning his mates inviting them to play. It ended up as 5-a-side eventually with these ringers substituting between both teams. Strange folk. As for goals. Fairly even and a bit scrappy until the last 15 minutes when yellow shockingly pulled away to a 5 goal lead with every volley going in, the cream of which was an overhead flick-on by James coming over JP’s left shoulder and him right-foot-volleying it in at the near post. Tasty stuff.
Final score: Yellow 13 – 9 Red
Yellow (5): Oz, Darren, Jim N, Matt, Steve
Red (5): Stuart, Dan, Jeremy, Gerald, Ed
5-a-side: I like this regular even sided-ness we’re achieving.
So anyway, after an end-to-end opening 10 minutes in which red pulled away to 3-1, yellow wouldn’t succomb and rose again to draw level much to the chagrin of red. The killing blow came when Gerald’s clearance hit Matt on the back and looped back into the goal. 4-3 to yellow. Gerald sank to his knees and gnashed his teeth in despair. Yellow then pulled away to an 8-3 lead with the last goal slipping between Jeremys legs that had been firmly closed hitherto. Calamatous. But red didn’t lose their pluck and began a resolute fightback. A shot from Daniel hit Steve on the arm and the penalty prayers were answered. Stuart stepped up and although the initial shot was blocked by Jim, Ed bundled in the rebound and jumped around like the Easter Bunny who’d eaten all the chocolates, possibly because his son had come to watch. A few more goals made it 8-7 to yellow. In the last 10 seconds Jeremy threw the ball up the pitch over everyone and Daniel got his head to it – would he be the hero?……………..No – straight at the keeper.
Lots of shots, some tasty saves and I hope you like the relevant biblical and Easter references.
Final score 8-7 to yellow.
So I can’t recall much other than Richard N hoofing the ball up the pitch to waste the last 5 seconds and shouting with victorious glee and Oz can only remember fluffing a couple of shots and not playing well. Hmmm, not one for the history books then. 7 -a-side though – great numbers so thank you for coming. John G – hope your injury isn’t too bad. Final score 4-3 to yellow
Red: Oz, James, Darren, Tim, Matt, Stuart, a random
Yellow: John G, Daniel, Ahmet, JP, Jim M, Jim N, Richard N
We had even numbers for a change, 5-a-side and the game ended 4-all. Not sure if it was because we’d not played for two weeks, the warmer weather, the firmer pitch or a combo of all three, but it was a knackering game. Draw was a fair result IMHO.
Red (5): Dan, Jeremy, Jim N, Oz and Richard N.
Yellow (5): Ahmet, Darren, Ed, Stuart, Tim.
Red (4): Ahmet, Oz, JP, James
Yellow (5):Jeremy, Daniel, Tim, Jim N, Richard N
A foursome of natural goalscorers against five…er…well, whatever.
What on earth is that? Bright, clear with a round yellow thing in it? Blue sky and the sun! Oh, how we skipped to the pitch hand in hand, smiling at each other with glee.
An own goal by Richard N, a penalty after Richard N’s cynical and deliberate trip on JP, a lovely long ball from Jeremy headed in by Richard N. Not getting enough attention at home Richard? 3 points for Wigan on several occasions & both teams feeling the pleasure of leading. 4-4 at the break. Red pulled away to 8-5 in the second half and just when yellow’s heads began to droop, a couple of goals went in and red looked nervous. The last five minutes was an end to end, have a shot, oops missed, up the other end type of game but to no avail. Final score 9-9. Lots of interceptions, good = pass completion rate, bad. And yellow’s biggest threat in front of goal turned out to be Daniel who slotted in four. Yes, you read that right.
A very pleasurable game. I bet you’re glad you came. Paul even showed up to watch! Not sure why though.