Final score: Yellows 2 – Blues 2
Welcome, one and all, to the new season. Like many of us, I wasn’t able to make the first game back, so Friday represented my debut for the 2021/22 season.
Here are your teams, picked by myself:
Yellows – Yev, Simon Ink, Simon Gas, me, Danny, Johnnie, Joe and Morgan
Blues: Nathan, Bodgan, Mick, Paul Gas, David, Nick, Steve and Will
The Yellows took the lead following a soft goal from Morgan, who took advantage of some slack goalkeeping from the otherwise impressive debutant Nathan, who joins us from the Skinners Arms in a late Summer transfer coup by Simon Gas.
The newcomer was heavily involved with the Blues equaliser. A slightly contentious free kick award after Simon had tackled him (and won the ball), albeit from slightly behind the player saw Nathan demand – and get – a free kick just outside the Yellows penalty area. (Simon was possibly aware that his chances of being served swiftly in the pub hinged on this decision).
There then followed an uncharacteristically sophisticated (for Coram Fields) free kick routine which saw Nathan and Steve conspire like secret service agents before nudging the ball to an unmarked David who was loitering in the shadows and managed to squeeze the ball past Danny, who had calf-knack and was thus stationed in goal. The Blues then took the lead through Nick, before Yev got the final goal of the evening. Sheer weight of numbers for the Yellows as they drove forward overcame some errant passing, and the ball fall to perpetually tardy hit man, who bundled into the bottom corner.
The final action of the evening saw Yev smash the ball goalwards only for it be parried by a combination of the goalkeeper – David, who I think it’s fair to say had an eventful evening – and the post, and then fall invitingly for me to hammer home the winner. Except I only managed to hammer the ball into David’s face, which was irritatingly stuck between his shoulders.
Final whistle – two apiece, and so off to the (hot) showers for the first time since March 2020. We must have smelt terribly.
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