Last Friday evening’s somewhat chilly game of football saw a total of ten goals and
plenty of action, as Simon Gas selected the two teams. With Mick arriving
slightly after the start of play I was the makeweight in the subsequent
rebalancing of the two sides, with the line-ups settling thusly:
Bibs: Mick, Matt, Dan, Ian Goff*,
Ian West Brom, Simon Ink, Phil
Colours: Alex, Yev, Joe,
Andy, Tommy, Danny, Simon Gas, me
(The Bibs had rush keeper to reflect that they were a man
short).
The scoring had already opened before Mick’s arrival, via, I
think, Alex. (Having switched teams it’s not easy to remember whether you were
on the side that took the lead or not). There then followed a flurry of goals, with Alex and Yev
forming a potent double-act through the middle of the park, Yev playing
ostensibly as a striker and Joe providing a very useful outlet wide on the left
and cutting in to lay on the chances for the two main men.
Meanwhile Matt and Dan proved to be a real handful for the
Bibs and both scored at least once each, with long range shooting being very much the
order of the day given they had fewer people to pass to. I think Phil also got
on the scoresheet. As the game wore on the extra man for the Colours started to
tell – Yev grabbed one goal following a rare rush-goalie mix-up that left the
goal temporarily (yet fatally) unguarded - although the score never got
completely away from the Bibs.
In an event as rare as the proverbial rocking horse’s teeth
or hen’s shit I managed to get on the scoresheet after Joe cut the ball back
from his wide-left berth and I smartly tucked the ball past the keeper, (even
if I do say so myself). That made the score 5-3, but it was 5-4 soon after,
following an unfortunate own goal that wrong footed yours truly between the
posts. I did manage to make amends and prevent would have been an equalising
shot from Dan, before Joe wrapped things up with a late sixth goal for the
Colours.
Final score: Colours 6 - Bibs 4
Bit of a schism in the Old Fountain this week, with me,
Danny, Mick and Andy on one table swapping stories of terrible jobs (I
particularly enjoyed Danny’s revelation that he failed an interview for
McDonald’s in the last 80’s after turning up in a three piece suit – and with his
mother in tow, something which inspired this week’s byline photo), while Simon, Ian
Goff* and the younger coterie of players on the other. No idea what they were
discussing.
I’m away for a couple of weeks, seeing various in-laws in
Cornwall and Essex, so The Guvnor will no doubt be back in blogging action
before long.
*I am aware
this is not the correct spelling.
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