Sick As A Parrot

Here's my caption for today's soccer blog:- "Realizing that his team mates were unworthy of his superlative set-up play, The Unselfish One was finally left with few options other than to peel away from and dribble past two defenders inside the box and crack a perfect finish in off the far-side post to put us in the lead. Indeed the echo of the shot smacking the post rung out across the entire pitch as a testament to the Rooneyesque quality of the goal ..." Basically he lobbed in a cross and with the now expected level of accuracy it evaded the on rushing attackers, waiting defenders and bamboozled the goal keeper who was expecting to leap forward but had to recoil backwards. Fortunately the post saved what was an awful cross and transformed it into a match leading goal. Next week he'll be providing the lottery numbers from under a ladder whilst breaking a mirror etc etc. 1 - 1 in what was a fairly even game that shou...

You try to avoid some things but then there's always this bloke banging on about doing this that and the other... " You have plenty of ammunition for the Blog this week! and don't forget your toe richocet two yards out from my Giggs-like, flighted cross ;-) ". I'm supposed to mention a flighted corner that bounced off a couple of blokes heads and ended up on my right foot and then, before I could react, ricocheted past the post by 2 feet. I should also mention a right foot drive that skimmed off a defenders head and a left foot wallop that troubled no one. All of this is irrelevant compared to the free kick Martin sent to the back post that the keeper failed to hold and subsequently pushed into the net. Great free kick if lobbing in high balls to a midget is your idea of a good time. The reason I have total sympathy for the keeper was because of my own horror show in goal. At halftime we were leading 2 - 1 at which point I did my stint between the sticks. Two minu...