Monday 27th October

Matchday video here 

Seans summary

A soggy rain soaked pitch greeted our crew of misfits Monday morning.

It was great to see a gathering of 5 of our senior members. A little bit of rain couldn’t scare off these hardy lads. Fred the gunner, H the commander of the purse strings, Boris from whom Liam Gallagher stole the  bucket head look, Walter back from a recent voyage or expedition to parts unknown and Ken the toe poke goal hatching champion.

The game kicked off with blacks until with vocal encouragement from Bambi the ref realized that Red is supposed to take the initial kick off.

Reds with the Flying Scotsman Steve in goal, hoverboard Kevo and the wondering Walter and tumbling gunner Fred in defence. The one Welshman who can’t sing like Tom Jones Steve , I’ll take anyone’s money Steve Mc and Bigman Graham who had no sun to block on this morning where in around midfield with the guitar strumming strike toe poke expert Ken up front.

The Blacks started with a  Day-vee or Mick in goal masquerading as a Scotsman I think! Commander  H “I’ll put my boot up your backside”, Bucket hat Boris minus said hat, in defence.

In the middle back from a knee injury that would have sidelined lesser men was Nigel, with the not so flying, more stumbling, Dutchman Ton and Brian the fish on the wings and once again leading the charger the”Bamser” encouraging his teammates with inspirational “what da f…..k u doin”

The game started with the Reds  passing the ball around controlling play with the bigman Graham steamrolling through the middle on several occasions only to see the ball crash off one or other post. Then late in the 1st period almost against the run of play Ton or Nigel or someone in Black put the ball past Steve into the back of the net.

Play resumed with Kevo distributing from the back for the Reds but every shot on goal was sadly repelled by Day-ever or Mick or whoever was in goal. Steve Mc was dancing and prancing but all to no avail.

The 2nd period commenced much like the 1st. Fred and Walter holding Bambi in check, Kevo feeding the prancing and Steve Mc and Steve, who’s not Tom Jones. As they encroached into the Blacks territory only to have  Big Graham smack it off the posts or Ken shoot wide.

Once again out of nowhere the Black put together a string of passes the ball was feed to Nigel the knee, from  Boris and Mick or Day-vee and Nigel slotted home for Blacks 2nd.

It was looking ominous for Reds that despite all their intricate maneuvering the goals just weren’t manifesting for them. But they persevered and finally the big man put one between the sticks rather than past them.

The game ebbed and flowed with Nigel hitting a few screamers into left field, baseball reference,. I might add here that Mercedes is a crap ball boy, woman, person.

In the third period Steve Mc finally quite dancing and prancing and got another goal for the Reds. Brian the fish’s mind was out at sea and the ball trickled over the line.

The 4th quarter the Reds pressed hard but where punished when the stumbling Dutchman took a cross from Nigel and broke the Reds hearts. It was at some junction in the 4th period after some gamesmanship and time wasting by Black occurred.

Fred decided to take a tumble, the ref unsure if it was a dive or as the truth was revealed, he tripped over Bambsters big ass feet.

The Reds didn’t give up and continued to press for the equalizer, even with a man down, which never materialized. Even thought the ref added adequate time to alot for Blacks time wasting.

Finally I could take no more and called a halt to the proceedings. Final score 3-2 to the Blacks.

Colins cogitation

Game 2 was refless and at times it showed.

7 v 6 in Blacks favour in the faster game did create imbalances at times, but good marshalling of his troops by the returning Dave 🚖 mitigated the deficit the reds found themselves with.

Early goals were shared by Dave 🦊 for Blacks and Dave 🚖 for reds.

Was that running by Alvin whilst scoring a screamer for Reds? Much debate and Keith “Spirit of the Game” advocate in Reds goal called it a no goal

Blacks added a second through Dave 🦉 but a third by Darren was ruled out as an unfortunate ricochet onto his arm in the build up evened up the disallowed goals.

An equaliser for Reds was calamitous with Prak passing the ball back to keeper Paul but wrong footing him enough to leave us all watching the ball roll slowly into the net 2-2

A clever corner across the goal found Keith unmarked and he dispatched the ball past Paul and suddenly reds were winning with one less player, surely this can’t be so.

A second goal by Dave 🦊 reinstated some balance in the scoreline, but the reds had one more in them and who else but Dave 🚖 was strong enough to force his way through to complete the scoring.

Moment of controversy that a ref would have certainly awarded a penalty for, was the obvious running across their own penalty box by one of the reds. You know who you are