You know you are witnessing something special when 5 men are easily beating 6. Luke Paul C, Jon, David M, and Yusuf played impeccably with a bigger movement than the world's largest grandfather clock. At one point they were even 11-3 up.
The opposition refused however to be downhearted. Dickon, Paul O'C, Tim, Ed, Chris, and Danny had the words of Jodie Marsh during Celebrity Big Brother ringing in their heads: "I feel like I've got a point to prove every minute of every day of my life."
With renewed vigour they hauled the lead back to make the final scoreline a respectable 14-9.
With so many good performances to chose from and so little to separate the classy displays, this week's man of the match breaks with tradition and goes not to one man but to the 5 man team - Luke Paul C, Jon, David M, and Yusuf, who should all be puffing out their chests and walking a little taller as they all pick up one of football's greatest accolades.
Monday, 22 June 2009
Monday, 15 June 2009
Match report 15 March 2009
30 minutes before kick off and hailstones the size of golf balls were crashing down, the lightning had more forks than a wedding cutlery set and the softie softball players had called off their game.
Step forward ten hardy footballers. Their courage paid off as sure enough the heavens calmed and a game that lasted practically 2 hours ensued!
Nobody wanted to finish, but at 9pm eventually a halt was called.
Given the slippery conditions, the skills on display were startling.
Rob, Tim, Ed, Paul O'C and Ben S made telling runs, moved the ball around with ease and displayed more energy that a Duracell battery on speed; but their efforts were all to no avail.
You could have built the best bonfire in Britain, given how Luke, Lionel, and Chris were on fire, but in spite of their assured performances it was their colleague Paul C, who wins man of the match thanks to his touch, his speed, and his distribution.
Another cracking game!
Step forward ten hardy footballers. Their courage paid off as sure enough the heavens calmed and a game that lasted practically 2 hours ensued!
Nobody wanted to finish, but at 9pm eventually a halt was called.
Given the slippery conditions, the skills on display were startling.
Rob, Tim, Ed, Paul O'C and Ben S made telling runs, moved the ball around with ease and displayed more energy that a Duracell battery on speed; but their efforts were all to no avail.
You could have built the best bonfire in Britain, given how Luke, Lionel, and Chris were on fire, but in spite of their assured performances it was their colleague Paul C, who wins man of the match thanks to his touch, his speed, and his distribution.
Another cracking game!
Monday, 8 June 2009
Match report 8 June 2009
Very quick report tonight:
a) great game
b) 7 v 7
c) strong performances from the likes of Luke, Rob, Roy, Yusuf, Dave, Lionel, Chris, Ed, Paul, Pedro, Alberto, Fernando, and even Danny, but man of the match has to go to Jon O - who spread the ball about with precision, covered every blade of grass, found space in attack, and was like a rock in defence. A peach of a performance.
a) great game
b) 7 v 7
c) strong performances from the likes of Luke, Rob, Roy, Yusuf, Dave, Lionel, Chris, Ed, Paul, Pedro, Alberto, Fernando, and even Danny, but man of the match has to go to Jon O - who spread the ball about with precision, covered every blade of grass, found space in attack, and was like a rock in defence. A peach of a performance.
Monday, 1 June 2009
Match Report 1 June 2009
What a cracker! It was an amazing 10 versus 10 tonight and it would take the judgement of Solomon to chose from the 18 fine male displays and the 2 female ones and select just one person of the match.
Solomon isn't here so I'll have to make a stab at it.
The coloured shirts won 4-2 thanks to great displays from Tim, Benjamin, Tom, 3 Italians/Brazilians, Andrew, Yusuf, Jon, and Chris.
It was great to see Andrew and Yusuf link up like the old days in Camden Town. Jon and Chris have the footballing brains of Cloughie and Sir Alex and were masters at using the ball effectively, whilst Tim, Tom and Benjamin were dynamos using their fitness to cover every blade of grass and barren divet on the pitch. Meanwhile the three Italians proved highly effective particularly in attack with Pedro playing like a cross between Paolo di Canio and Felipe Inzaghi.
The other team on the receiving end of the scoreline - I hesitate to call them losers as there were no losers in this match - saw marvellous efforts from Graeme, Paul (John J Part), Rob, Roy, Danny, 3 Italians, Dave and Ed.
Bravery award must go to Paul, who played practically the whole match with an irksome injury (John J briefly came on as sub and flew around the field); Roy, Dave and Ed were magnificent at probing the opposition with triangles worthy of Ajax in the eighties, Rob made a magnificent return and made invaluable contributions at both ends of the pitch. The three Italians proved effective in midfield and expertly tracked back and broke down many a promising attack from the opponents, but man of the match goes to Graeme - who marshalled the defence and midfield brilliantly, made valuable interceptions, found space and distributed the ball with pinpoint accuracy and poise.
Solomon isn't here so I'll have to make a stab at it.
The coloured shirts won 4-2 thanks to great displays from Tim, Benjamin, Tom, 3 Italians/Brazilians, Andrew, Yusuf, Jon, and Chris.
It was great to see Andrew and Yusuf link up like the old days in Camden Town. Jon and Chris have the footballing brains of Cloughie and Sir Alex and were masters at using the ball effectively, whilst Tim, Tom and Benjamin were dynamos using their fitness to cover every blade of grass and barren divet on the pitch. Meanwhile the three Italians proved highly effective particularly in attack with Pedro playing like a cross between Paolo di Canio and Felipe Inzaghi.
The other team on the receiving end of the scoreline - I hesitate to call them losers as there were no losers in this match - saw marvellous efforts from Graeme, Paul (John J Part), Rob, Roy, Danny, 3 Italians, Dave and Ed.
Bravery award must go to Paul, who played practically the whole match with an irksome injury (John J briefly came on as sub and flew around the field); Roy, Dave and Ed were magnificent at probing the opposition with triangles worthy of Ajax in the eighties, Rob made a magnificent return and made invaluable contributions at both ends of the pitch. The three Italians proved effective in midfield and expertly tracked back and broke down many a promising attack from the opponents, but man of the match goes to Graeme - who marshalled the defence and midfield brilliantly, made valuable interceptions, found space and distributed the ball with pinpoint accuracy and poise.
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