In brief: The opposition take a goal kick and I'm standing near the halfway line as the ball comes towards me. In a rare moment of thinking of doing something and it actually working I head the ball sideways to Martin. Normally heading the ball leaves me in a state of borderline concussion because I pretty rubbish at it, however this time I'm still standing and clear headed and I marvel as the move unfolded. Martin does some flash stuff with his feet, like putting one foot in front of the other, and moves forward with the ball before pinging a pass out to Pawel who is on the right wing. Pawel advances down the wing and sends in a cross to Ronaldo who has taken up a position outside the six yard area about level with the left hand post and hanging off the back of the defenders. The ball sails over the defenders and finds Ronaldo perfectly but the defenders react and attempt to close him down. Not wasting time to trap the ball Ronaldo executes a low scything scissor kick, with one hand on the ground I think, and drills the ball just inside the right hand post. Fantastic - I don't know what else to say, it was just great to see it.
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James and I might come early and see if we can't try and get another game in early. If we can't get a spot on your goalscoring juggernaut maybe we'll throw ourselves in front of it and help out the opposition. Actually help is probably a fairly generous term.
The bad news is that the opposition scored two.
The really, really bad news is that your star man, well I mean the star man in the absence of your good selves, Jose/Ronaldo, limped off after 20 minutes with "a pull". He did attempt to play goalie second half, but I suspect your juggernaut may have lost it's wheels for the forseeable future. Or at least torn its hamstring.
The injury had been coming for a while if that makes sense. On the positive side is does provide us with an excellent opportunity to prove that we're not a one man team.