Rorys Ramblings

Gadzooks! Two hat-tricks in the same game!

There was much chopping and changing of the teams before kick-off with the wobbling ball bashers looking even more confused than usual before kick-off.

Anyway, there was so many on one side and a vaguely similar number on the other, so the whistle eventually set the game in motion (ok, you could hardly call it that, but the ball was certainly rolling).

The blacks started well with Graham and Dave the cab (who was clearly in the game under false pretences) knocking the ball about well. They knew if they could dominate possession, they could set ken free up front to unleash his thunderous right peg.

Only Haaland is on a better goalscoring run than Ken at the moment, so there were bound to be some goals. Tim was playing at the back for the blacks, conjuring up memories of the ghost of Paul Reaney, and making sure there would be no way through for the blacks.

This wouldn’t be easy with motivational speaker Bambi, and Paolo up front. The mercurial front man with the deft touch in front of goal was a real threat.

The blacks applied some nice early pressure on the reds’ goal, but their shooting was more wayward than driving around Granada with a dodgy sat nav.

Against the run of play it was the reds who broke the deadlock with Paolo nicely controlling a great through ball before stroking it past 124* choice Irish keeper Sean in the black’s goal. Reds 1-0 Blacks

It remained a tight game with the blacks being more fluid in their passing and movement game helped by Dave the cab being everywhere on the pitch at once and always providing a good out-ball for his teammates. The reds looked reasonably solid at the back with ball playing, inverted fullback Boris deploying his silky footballing skills down the right flank.

Meanwhile, lan was doing a good job of breaking up play in midfield for the reds although he needed to wear protection on his shins because that was where he mainly connected with the ball.

Bambi was as encouraging as ever, criticising his teammates whenever they didn’t lay the ball on a plate for him, yet somehow developing an extreme case of myopia when it came down to his own error strewn game.

Nonetheless, he did have a couple of good strikes which went dangerously close to the opposition goal and made a good job of occupying the reds’ defence.
Dave the owl was ghosting into ever more forward positions, and with the blacks’ defence distracted by Paolo and Bambi, the (soon to be League 1) Wednesday die-hard shimmied to the side and fired the ball into the bottom corner to make the score Reds 2-0 Blacks.

The reds were looking comfortable but possibly became a bit complacent as hop-a-long Rory gave way to Welsh Steve in goal. Up to that point, Steve had been having a blinder in midfield and linking well with the forwards.

This shift in the team provided deadly Ken with the opportunity that he wanted to bag some goals. Sure enough, the aged but still mobile hitman changed the dynamic of the game and scored a brilliant hat-trick to give the blacks the lead which on the balance of play they probably deserved.

It didn’t help that Steve in goal was giving a good impersonation of someone competing for the traditional Welsh dancing prize at this year’s National Eisteddfod.

One could hardly blame him, Ken was firing them in, and Steve did well to fail to lay a finger on all three shots. Reds 2-3 Blacks.

The reds surged forward but struggled to breach the massed ranks of the blacks’ defence with big Graham being particularly effective at snuffing out any threats on goal while at the same time initiating some counterattacks with the help of Dave the cab’s incessant running.

However, in an effort to play out from the back the blacks did a quick impersonation of Spurs, which was
bound to lead to a calamitous error. Sure enough, Dave the owl swooped in, snaffled the ball and smashed it past the limp-wristed Sean in goal.

Brilliant play from the deluded Wednesday fan. Reds 3-3 Blacks

What a great end-to-end game of ball biffing between two evenly matched teams. It looked like the Blacks had snatched a win when Dave the Cab made a brilliant run before getting onto the end of a great pass and despatching it through the legs of the leaden footed Rory in goal.

Surely, he’d won it for the blacks. Reds 4-4 Blacks.

The reds kept pressing for an equaliser, and their persistence paid off when Dave the owl scored a surprise last minute goal to give the reds a deserved victory. Final Score Reds 5-4 Blacks

Thanks to Dave the Fox for refereeing the game. It was a close match, and as most of the players left the field for a well-deserved Cana or five, Dave and Ken wrestled each other for the match ball.

Colins Cogitations

Game 2 on paper was going to be the slowest fast game for some time. None of the big hitters it seemed as absences and dropping to game 1 accounted for some of the usual faces.

However the reds with their Dutch duo of Mercedes who ran Colin ragged trying to track her and Han recently returned and stepping back up to the faster game had the blacks pulled in all directions

Keith and Paul interchanged in goal for blacks but wherever Paul was Keith had something to say 😅

Reds had guest Paul keeping returning John out and the probing back and forth produced some good early football and Paul found himself with space and fired the blacks ahead.

It’s around now that the Dutch masterclass was witnessed.

Quick interchanges left Han free to fire in a hattrick with blacks not quite knowing where the ball was most of the time.

Mercedes even had a penalty well saved by Keith after he’d handled outside the box playing his usual sweeper keeper role.

Alan did pull a goal back to make it 3-2 and the score stayed this way for sometime. Blacks kept probing but reds killed the game of when Prak drilled the ball past Paul to make it 4-2 and a good natured game ended.