The ‘OWL’ v The ‘PUSSYCAT’

Yesterday, on yet another warm sunny morning,  in a game of two halves at the Retamar, another high scoring game took place with the Orange’s deserved winners by 13 goals to the Yellow’s 9.

After an absence of nearly 3 months it was great to see Dave ‘The Owl’ return to action, that is unless you were playing in yellow bibs.

Scoring almost at random when he ventured into the opposition half, he scored 9 goals, shooting at ease with either foot.

He scored 6 in the first half against ‘petrified’ yellow keeper ‘Keef’ the pussycat Samuels, who bravely jumped out of the way twice to Dave’s cannonball shots. Halftime couldn’t come quick enough for the ‘pussycat’ who had by then conceded 8 goals before deciding to remove himself from the ‘firing’ line.

The ‘Commander’ took over from the ‘pussycat’ making several good saves and only letting in one goal in a 15 minute spell.  ‘Keef’ who had seen enough replaced the ‘Commander’ in goal instructing him to play up front, this being someone who hadn’t scored in years. However, in a 15 minute cameo performance this move backfired as he scored 4 goals much to everyone’s surprise and laughter. There was a strong opinion that ‘Keef’ was looking for a ‘fall’ guy to deflect from his embarrassing performance in goal.

Other scorers for the oranges was Glyn, his third hat-trick in succession with Steve ‘C’ adding a consolation goal.

For the losing yellow team both ‘Dazza’ and Steve ‘Mac’ scored a brace each, the latter a constant threat with lots of probing passes in the second half, with the ‘Fish’ scoring a rare goal.

All in all yet another good day rounded off with the usual banter in the bar afterwards with ‘Keef’ trying to convince everyone that he is an astute tactician, most definitely not a goalkeeper as a result off all the second half team changes he made!