Another Friday goal round up for you all, as a slew of last-minute line-up changes – Nick dropped out, ‘AV’ Anatoliy dropped in, and Yev was dropped on all over as the water in his house decided to come out in sympathy with his flooded countrymen in Ukraine. Here were your teams:
Yellows: me, Johnnie, Simon Gas, Morgan, Joe, David, Danny, Johannes and Merv, (for half an hour only)
Blues: Bogdan, Anatoliy, Ian, Remy, Josh, Bristol Paul, Kanat, Alan and Will
As you’ll see, Merv parachuted in to help manage the water-induced numerical disadvantage, but the Yellows were able to cope with one man fewer for the final half an hour as the Yellow team ran out eventual 6-4 winners.
What follows here is less a traditional linear narrative of each goal, more a Charlie Kaufman style splurge of action with no regard for timeline.
Johannes, inevitably, scored several goals for the Yellow team, typically by chopping inside and steering low shots into either corner. Remi scored the first Blue goal by lashing in from the edge of the box past Danny, with Morgan and Johnnie also adding to the score.
We learnt that you should not allow Josh to shoot on his right foot – he sent one shot thundering past David in goal and another thundering onto the crossbar whereupon it bounced off Kanat’s shins and dribbled apologetically into the net. Danny scored the final Yellow goal as the Blues’ midfield drifted into obsolescence once Ian left goal to try and do some goal-hanging. And he almost scored at the end courtesy of a nice through ball from Alan, but I managed to get down and smother the shot.
Also on the nearly-scored sheet was Simon Gas, who trundled in off the left to volley the ball firmly wide in a rare foray near his opponent’s penalty area. We look forward to seeing more of this.
And thus to the pub, for a lovely evening of al fresco drinking.
Topics under discussion included whether the United Kingdom is more corrupt and dysfunctional than other countries or just seems like it, claiming to have green credentials in the London area and the unfair way most local authorities use car owners as a cash cow for minor rule infringements, medication, whether people in the past would watch two teams in their local area despite supporting one of them (e.g. Arsenal and Tottenham, Man United and Man City, etc. – NB: they did), the Champions League final, and whether Alan should have moved a bit quicker to fetch Ian’s heart medication at the end of the game (he should have).
Until Friday!
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