Benalmadena 26th January

Match report by Geoff

BLACKS……3 versus REDS……1

Despite yet another cool and breezy winters day some 20 intrepid ‘old farts’ turned out at the Polideportivo on Thursday morning.

In the absence of the regular correspondent namely Rory aka Leo Tolstoy of War and Peace fame yours truly in the absence of any other takers stood in for our superlative wordsmith who I believe was away seeking legal advice relative alleged comments made against him after an earlier report!

More on this matter upon his return I am sure.

Please note that this report will be factual and a précis of events as is accustomed from my past life.

It will also include the names of goal scorers and not some Hans Christian Andersen fairy story account .

Now to the brief  match report, the first 20 minutes remained goalless in no small part due to Fish in the Blacks goal saving everything thrown at him with ever part of his body other than his fins.

Yet another interesting addition to the group was new boy Michel of I believe Bulgarian descent who brought along some vocal support from his Spanish harem of cheer ladies who stood on the touchline squealing with delight like excited teenagers every time he touched the ball.

After 25 minutes Sergio put the Blacks in front with a low shot from distance having previously squandered earlier chances when others were arguably in better positions to score, much to the disgust and abuse of Bambi his Dancing on Ice teammate.

A few minutes later Welsh Steve equalised for the Reds with an opportunist and rare goal, even rarer than a Welsh win in either code.

The Reds on paper looked the slightly weaker team and for the next 25 minutes did well to hold out from the Blacks bombardment of their goal with new girl Jan cementing her image and new emoji of the axe woman with a solid performance and most notably by not being afraid to leave  her foot in the tackle.

Then Keef scored a terrific individual goal to suddenly become a ‘somebody’ again to complement his man of the match performance, not least for his probing passes in midfield in particular to the old stager Ken of 5 touch fame and goal poacher supreme.

Match referee Breck, as is the norm, played added time in an endeavour to give the Reds a chance to equalise, albeit this plan never materialised when Keef the man who was a nobody and suddenly a somebody put five touch  Ken through into a gap for him to blast the ball into the back of the Reds net, game over.

In conclusion a real highlight of the past few weeks has been the excellent form of our two new lady players Jan and Audrey and the warm welcome they have been given by everyone at the Poli.

Back to the bar for refreshments and banter.