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Rorys Ramblings

The reds had to make a last minute change due to Graham’s unfortunate accident on the local highway. Hope to see you back soon Graham. In stepped Rory with a foot that provided verifiable evidence that “man” had indeed descended from the apes.

With Paul in goal, the reds had the reassurance of a back line with a combined age of 240 years, but what they lacked in pace, they made up for in speed of thought. Besides, they were only up against the “injured” Fez. Let’s face it, we’d all like an injury which enables us to sprint up and down the pitch without feeling out of breath. The reds had deadly Ken up front with the two Daves playing just off him, with Rory and our Keef bumping into each other in midfield. “Unlucky’ Ian was sticking to the win and giving the reds plenty of width.

Walter was doing a man marking job on Ken, so it looked like there would be a shortage of goal opportunities for the reds. The blacks looked solid in midfield thanks to the hoverboard gliding Kevo and hard tackling ball winner Joe, who makes Souness look like Bo-Peep without her crook. Wrexham dreamer Steve was playing box to box before realising he should have been playing football.

The reds started well, stringing together 2,342 passes while simultaneously advancing precisely three feet towards the blacks’ goal. I don’t think it’ll be the first game on Match of the Day. Our Keef was his usual energetic self, running around the pitch at speed, in the hope that no-one would be able to pick out a pass to him.

The blacks defended with a low block (all 8 of them standing in front of goal), and the Fish between the posts, was never threatened by the ball getting anywhere near the goal. Out of the blue Rory swung his right foot at the ball more in hope than expectation and everyone watched it deflect a few times before flying past the startled Fish. Reds 1-0 Blacks.

The “injured” Fez was being kept nicely in check by Sam and the silky skilled inverted full-back Boris for much of the first quarter. However, the Reds midfield and defence took a leaf out of England’s defensive handbook when Fez was allowed ocean’s of space to drill the ball past Paul, who was briefly seen diving for cover. Fortunately, he managed to get out of the way in time. Reds 1-1 Blacks.

The blacks were becoming more dominant and started firing in a number of shots which roughly went in the vicinity of the reds goal. Joe burst through the reds’ defence only to send his shot rocketing into the outer atmosphere. The ball was last seen by the crew of the Artemis II as it floated past their starboard window on the dark side of the moon on a trajectory that seemed to be taking it to Alpha Centauri.

The blacks pressure finally paid off when a well struck shot by Kevo was palmed into his own goal by Paul. Reds 1-2 Blacks.

Walter and Brian were making things difficult for the reds by keeping things tight at the back. Meanwhile Bambi, who had had a relatively quiet time up to this point had a couple of speculative shots which bothered the corner flag. The reds got back in it thanks to a great poachers goal from Dave the Owl who in one movement trapped the ball before smacking it past the Fish in goal. What a strike! Reds 2-2 Blacks.

Joe was starting to thread some nice balls through to the “injured” Fez and another goal looked on the cards as both teams started to tire. Sure enough, a great ball found him on the goal line with an impossible angle to score. While Paul dived out of his goal in anticipation of the cross, Fez banged the ball into the empty net. Sign that keeper for Chelsea! Reds 2-3 Blacks.

With the clock ticking down, there was time for another speculative shot from Rory(this time with his left foot proving man descended from Neanderthals). The Fish was unsighted again by his massed defence as the ball sailed past his left ear into the top corner.

Final Score Reds 3-3 Blacks.

Both teams settled for a well earned draw in a hard fought game with a great spirit. And thanks to the Fox, for reffing the game.

Colins cogitations

Thursday was windy but warm, game 2 lined up 7 aside and despite Fish and Bambi doing a sterling job marking out the pitches it was decided ours was too small, so we extended it. By the end when we walked off knackered it was suggested maybe the pitch had been too big 😅

Reds definitely had the stronger team and raced into the lead, with blacks at 6s and 7s at the back, Alan had the easiest of tap ins for 1-0 Blacks

With a strong attack of 🚖, Kaj, Mark, Prak and Alan with Sean in goal (mostly) reds always had blacks on the back foot with defensive players in Colin and Tommy, loan striker Jim, Dave 🐝 marauding the wing and Henning just wandering all over the pitch it was inevitable that reds would extend their lead with strikes from Kaj and Mark

So 3-0 and cruising, but hang on what’s this, 2 strikes from Jim and one from Henning and blacks are all square.

Not for long though reds are 4-3 at half time with a Prak goal.

The 3rd half was goalless but come the 4th half reds extended the lead when Sean of all people ghosts in to score. Who let him out of the goal and why didn’t blacks know? 🤔

If reds weren’t already the better team when they then had 🚖 playing a sweeper keeper role it was as if they had at least 2 more players and eventually Kaj scored their 6th and the scoring was finally over.

Thanks to Grada8 for opening up so we could still enjoy a beer after the game