Benalmadena 16th May SF

Report by the Commander

CHERRIES 1 versus BLUES 1

ALL IN THE SPIRIT OF THE GAME!

In a low scoring match the ‘old farts’ game ended in controversy hence the headline for this match, more later explaining the reason why.

A warm welcome to Oscar who showed promise for the blues with some nice touches on the ball which augurs well for the future.

After some five minutes Jes strained a leg muscle and took over from H in goal, this turned out to be a fortuitous injury as he was outstanding making some tremendous saves to keep the cherries 🍒 in the game.

On paper Keef playing for the blues yet again looked to have picked the strongest side in addition to referring, more on the latter later.

Dave the owl 🦉 recovering from Covid took over as rush goalie for the blues when Alan ‘R’ went off injured, such a change caused the cherries problems with his many forays into attack thereby  leaving his goal unattended for which the team in red failed to take advantage.

The score remained goalless for some 50 minutes with Dave🦉 on one occasion making a terrific save from the Villain whose block buster shot from short distance resulted in the former allegedly spraining his wrist when the ball actually hit his leg!

On the hour the Commander hit an angled shot from just outside the box which despite his vain efforts the 🦉 couldn’t keep out. 1-0 to the cherries.

The blues threw everything into attack in the final few minutes with Keef for obvious reasons by now had played 10 minutes additional time. Jess during this time pulled off some more good saves thwarting the mass blue invasion! Then just as Keef was about to give up and with the whistle in his mouth Dave 🦉 blatantly handled the ball, no doubt thinking he was still in goal at the other end, there was a shout from Keef to play on when Walking Football’s favourite son Bambi blasted a superb shot  from distance past a bemused Jess in goal to equalise for the blues. True to form Keef then blew  his whistle to end the game running the full length of the pitch waving his arms to avoid the mass protests of the angry cherry players.

Obviously the message ‘Spirit of the Game’ has a different meaning in his vocabulary which he preaches to everyone before the ritual daily team photograph. All that was missing was a promotional advertisement for Specsavers on his tabard!

To make matters worse Bambi was stood grinning like a cat who had stolen the cream with Dave🦉 protesting that if the ball had hit his hand he never felt it due to the pain in his alleged sprained wrist. Poppycock.

Walter ever the gentleman playing for the cherry in his penultimate match had his best game to date making a constant nuisance of himself in defence before going away on his next African Safari later in the week

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