After a break I returned to the fray!!

I had to go to a quiz night recently but I was back in the thick of things last Friday. Again, it was an eight-a-side match but both teams played a good passing game. Unfortunately, I had a senior moment and did'nt remember that Henry scored a goal for us when I was telling his cousin Ross in the pub about his lack of composure in front of goal. Sorry about that!
The main event of the evening was the celebration of Simon Gashead's 50th birthday. His brother-in-law Andy organised the present, which was a Bristol Rovers shirt, and with our drinks in the pub we had a buffet. The game itself was a wet affair but at least the local kids did not throw crackers on the pitch as sometimes happen around November 5th. We were losing 3-0 but then changed the teams swapping our big centre forward Goughie for Alan Morg., who had scored one of their goals. Spizz got the first goal of the night with a shot, which saw the ball nestling in the corner of the net.
We managed to claw back two goals but in the end we lost 3-2. Their defence was well-marshalled by Mick K., who was gingerly coming back from a knee injury. I was playing right back and had to face a resurgent Geoff P., who has started to play a quicker passing game. He used to be well-known for mazzy dribbles, which went down blind alleys. Our defence was held together by Big Dave, while his brother Steve stayed in goal for the opposing side due to his first match back after a knee
injury.
Until recently I was the only 50 plus player but now we have got three with me, Gashead and Spizz himself. Tone reaches this milestone on Christmas Day and so we are giving a lot of years when we play against young eighteen year old Sam, who sometimes helps us out if we are down on numbers. Last week Tone played excellently for a spell and then just stayed back saying that he was knackered.
In the pub Spizz revealed that he was enjoying learning a bit of Italian and the group will be playing a gig in Bologna soon.