Sunnier match days to resume soon !
Match report by Stephen McHugh !
An unusually cold and cloudy day at the Retamar pitch on Monday with temperatures down in the cold mid-20s. For the regulars, it felt like one of those grey Sunday mornings, back in the glory days of youth.
A few of the guys were wearing gloves and thick hats which got some confused looks from the tourists.
As it turned out, the freezing cold didn’t stop the good football. With 7-a-side on the small pitch, the short passing game was well demonstrated by both sides and a high scoring 9 to 8.5 win for the orange or lemon team. In fact, many more goals could’ve been scored if it wasn’t for the consistent ability of some players on the losing team to miss the goals completely (ahem.. cough.. Colin ..cough) and the amazing goalkeeping on both teams… but particularly the winning team, of course. Well, Keith was the exception. At one point, he was peppered by so many shots, in a short 30 second period, that he finally gave in and let in a dribbler. A certain northern gentleman, with the complexion of a White Walker, remarked, “that’ll teach him to blow the whistle on me for running!”
Of course, as was reported in Sur and El Pais, Darren returned. And that’s all we’ll say about that! 🙂
Dave the IT guy (Irish Tourist) was on form. Not on game form (it took a while to get his shooting sights lined up) but he was quick with the chirping talk. In the bar afterwards, Dave and Darren were talking to each other and there were a few puzzled looks around the table.
Was it ?
- English?
- Gaelic?
- Inuit?
- Slovakian?
We’ll never know. We can also report that Dave’s legs are no longer the whitest. The White Walker reclaimed his rightful title this week. The difference came down to a slightly lighter shade of rust.
As noted above, Colin the Manc had a rough day. Oh my days, was it rough. He missed left. He missed high. He missed right. It was ugly. At the news conference after the game (well, in the bar, drinking beer) he blamed the difference in altitude between Calahonda and the Retamar. Of course, the bribe he offered to keep this out of the report, away from his Calahonda team mates, wasn’t enough.
An so onto the goals. So many to report but mostly forgotten. Darren and Kevo with hat-tricks, John with 1, Geoff with 1.5 goals (1 goal and 1 assist for those of you paying attention) but the highlight was certainly FIVE, yes FIVE, goals from Magic Mike, including a real-life slow motion goal which has to go down as THE slowest goal EVER from boot to goal line! Perhaps the cold weather was a sign that hell is freezing over 😉
Over and out.
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