Monday 9th March

The owls and fezzes wise words

Before kick off , VAR was once again called upon to check Keith’s footy shirt.

This time Keith was playing for Reds , and turned out yet again in a razzle-dazzle 3 Thai Baht shirt. Admittedly it was predominantly Red , and Var overturned the appeal against it. It was , however , subsequently discovered that it was fully reversible – red one way and black the other ! We should have known that Keith wouldn’t waste good beer money on two shirts 😝.

Eventually matters got underway, and Reds soon began to dominate proceedings , playing some slick stuff ! Gert rifled in their opening goal , nothing less than deserved.

Bambi (Reds) was so slick though , that he fell over the ball while trying a Messi-style trick. Laughter from both sides , while Bambi hurled abuse in all directions . However , he soon made amends following a swift move – Keith to Geoff , and then on to Bambi , and in it went . 2-0 Reds .

Finally , Blacks moved forwards and Dave 🦉 hit one shoulder high , bouncing off Keith’ back and nestling sweetly into the net . Reds 2-1 .

With their tails up , Blacks started to look threatening and a Dave 🦉 laid a sideways pass for Kevo to hit a beauty – 2-2.

Dave 🦉 then buried a sweet drive high into the corner from some distance to put Blacks in to the lead , 2-3.

Amazingly , Reds completely fell apart , having started so well 🤷‍♂️ . Lack of energy ? , lack of cohesion ? , lack of whatever ? , they totally lost their way . This allowed another slick move by Blacks , as Dave🦉 released Ken 🤩 , who found the net with a peach of a goal , 2-4 Blacks and that’s how it remained.

Well done Dave 🦊 for refereeing a good game , by keeping it flowing and trouble-free.

He named Dave🦉 for MOM for – quote : “a sweet left foot and good goal”. But Dave🦉 suggested Mick 🐊 was more deserving of MOM for his brilliant hold-up play , causing all sorts of problems for the opposition backline .

Colins Corner

Game 2 was 5 aside on a small pitch with no distance to goal once inside the opposition half so shots were guaranteed.

The game had goals, by the end I lost count and for the first half it was quite even.

Martin scored 2 for Reds which were cancelled out by Prak and Mick.

Reds had part time ref Steve in goal who kept mostly to his area whereas blacks used the rush keeper option to their full advantage which probably helped reds increase their goalscoring.

Han and Colin got in a tangle in reds midfield but the ball fell kindly for Han to create space and score a 3rd followed by Jim returning for a 3 month stint to make it 4-2

Garry showing off his knees having left the tracky bottoms at home let fly with 2 goals leaving vapour trails in their wake to level up again.

Martin completed his hat trick and Jim and Han knocked in another goal apiece as reds started to dominate.

With a small sided game Tommy gets more involved and puts his foot in a few too many times and eventually ref John decides he’s had one heavy challenge too many and bins him for 2 minutes. Unfortunately Tommy sees it differently and takes an early shower leaving blacks to see out the last 7 minutes with only 4.

Reds just play keep ball and rack up a few more goals with Martin claiming 7

So it might have been 11-4 but who knows??