Benalmadena 10th November

REDS…..1 versus BLACKS…..2

Just the one 9 aside match on Thursday at the Polideportivo, once again played in hot autumnal weather.

The first session was dominated by the Blacks which in no small part down to Breck having to make late changes due to players dropping out at the last minute.

Mike the Alligator 🐊 from Dundee and serial goal poacher somehow rediscovered his goal scoring touch scoring twice in the first 10 minutes, the second of which however should have been saved by Dazza in goal.

The🐊 was no doubt up beat by the fact that his horse for which he has 1% share out of 3,000 shares was favourite and running in the 3.30 at Taunton to such an extent he didn’t even stop for a celebratory beer afterwards.

2-0 to the Blacks at the water break.

The second session started with Breck in an endeavour to level things up decided to play for the Reds thereby giving them the extra player whilst also continuing  to referee.

No easy task following in the footsteps of Keef performing a dual role as we all know!

His presence in midfield undoubtedly helped to thwart the dominance of the stronger and younger Blacks team only to then  controversially in his dual role award the Reds a penalty.

This decision was strongly disputed by the Blacks claiming bias by the referee as a result of Rick🎸 only being slightly nudged in the back by Glyn causing the former to dramatically fall in the goal area like some gyrating 60’s pop star of the same name.

Such protests were ignored and in the subsequent furore Bambi took it on himself to take the penalty. Everyone now waited with bated breath as the referee had some difficulty getting through to Bambi that he could only take one stride before kicking the ball under the rules of walking football and not as he normally does run. Much to everyone’s surprise he struck a firm shot sending Laurie in goal the wrong way.

2-1 to the Reds at the end of second session.

There was no further score in the last session albeit H in goal for the Reds having previously making two good saves surprisingly let a miss hit shot from Matt Collier embarrassingly go through his legs. Fortunately this goal was disallowed by the referee for him running much to H’s relief and Matts disgust.

The Reds or should we say the older farts with an octogenarian and two other players nearer eighty than seventy in the team were unlucky not to get a result against the much younger boys in the Black team with an average age of only 60 years.

This seemed to be lost on the runners in the Black team, none more so than James, who even made Keef look pedestrian, this in addition to his consistent off putting loud vocals throughout the match to his teammates. It must be said he made Bambi sound like a squeaky mouse, no mean achievement in that regard.

Afterwards in the bar area, James enquired whether he had been considered for MOM to which yours truly explained most definitely, believing he meant Mouth of the Match. Overall, on a more serous note the ‘old farts’ in the Reds team put up a valiant effort to make for an enthralling game ably helped by man of the match Breck for his outstanding performance in midfield and not forgetting his superb referring performance.