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Keeping the streak alive - not

I'm not sure of the details but apparently we lost in the weekend. No-one showed up for the game so the team was embellished by ringers looking for an early game. My absence was well known ahead of the game and I can only guess the 8:30 Sunday morning kickoff was too early for some of the lads. Commitment, dedication to the cause - these are the things that bind a team together.

Phil rocked up and did a stint in goal which on the surface of things was an act of sportsmanship unrivaled. Closer examination reveals perhaps a more sinister reason for turning out for us. Yup I think our stunning 2 - 2 from last weekend goaded him into some early season scouting ahead of our head to head. Fortunately his planned scouting mission was undone by the pure unmitigated laziness of the lads. Nice one boys.

The game losing goal should be on YouTube under great sporting mishaps/bloopers/disasters. Into the last minute of the game with the score at 2 - 2. A nothing ball is played through and our keeper, not Phil, gives it a hoof. An agricultural clearance is what the commentators would call it. Their centre forward, being somewhat of an opportunist, was steaming in after the ball without any hope of getting to it gets whacked in face, is practically knocked out and the ball flies into the goal. Taking one for the team I think that is called.

No word from Martin as to his contribution to the match apart from some general shouting and barracking.

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Phil Newton said…
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1/25/2007 9:52 PM
Phil Newton said…
Some clarification required here: I was in goal for the opposition, I arrived at half time (having earned myself a speeding ticket on 280, $$%$#@$#!!), when you boys were 2-0 up. By the 90th minute I was wishing I had stayed in bed, having conceded two soft goals to seemingly gift B3 a point. I was abandoned by my defence for both of them, but really really should have got the second one, which was dribbling toward the goal. I jumped on it, rather than getting behind it, and succeeded in popping it over the line through sheer friction. However "our" winning goal was as comical as you describe, and made everything alright.

Our team proper, B7, we lost. I believe 3-1 was the final. As for your league table, I believe I can claim an assist for setting Jigz away for a goal last week, but really, who counts assists apart from fantasy football addicts and MLS devotees?

I think you need to add a separate table, with the relative performances of the two teams, but perhaps more importantly maybe you should add Ludwik to the individual players table........
1/25/2007 9:56 PM
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