Colins Corner
The warm weather is certainly bringing our seasonal players out to Spain as both games lined up 10 aside.
Frank was clearly seen brandashing a camera, he wasn’t even trying to hide it 😅 so once team photos were taken we got under way in the faster game.
Peter 🐟 aided by Bambi had done a sterling job marking out 2 pitches using all available space and with so many players we settled initially into a game of walking football with plenty of passing.
New boy Simon despite reading the rules was still finding his feet, unfortunately he found them both in his own penalty area. Ref John showed his soft side and let him off this once, with a suggestion that he might want to read them again.
It was Simon who opened the scoring for reds as he slotted past Eddie in goal for blacks.
The game ebbed and flowed and when Han let fly from some distance it looked to be an easy collect from Dave 👑 in reds goal, but Han had clearly smothered the ball in grease as it slipped through Daves’ hands 1-1
The early walking gradually turned into a bit of running and tackling from behind with warnings being administered by Ref John who was trying to keep everyone on the pitch.
Having been 1-0 down Blacks took the lead when Jim got the better of the reds defence and scored 2-1 Blacks
Dave 👑 was pulling off some great saves and when Han was sin binned for running or tackling reds had an advantage but unable to capitalise and when Alvin was inevitably binned as well reds had even more advantage, though only for 20 seconds as Han returned.
Ask 21 people what they saw and you’ll get 21 different versions of the facts.
The only person’s opinion that matters is the refs and despite your reporter seeing Han with ball facing his own goal being challenged from behind by Maj and both players going to ground a penalty was awarded which Maj dispatched past Eddie to level the scores.
Harsh? Possibly, but if getting booted out of a play off final is a fair punishment for watching a game of football, then maybe it was a penalty.
So the game finished 2-2 and with no meaningful football match on this weekend your reporter awaits Monday to go again.
Oh, apparently there’s a Hull fan and Middlesbrough fan amongst us with a meaningless game to be contested and a couple of Spurs fans praying for a win on Sunday!
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