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Friday's squad:
Aidan, Alex, Andy, Dennis, Irish Pete, James, Joss, Mark B, MH
Pete,
Mikey,
Paul, Steve, Tom, Will
(Rolling Subs)
Absent: Rich (Injured)
Matt G (Celebrating his 56th birthday) |
| Friday evening football is
a rather odd affair. Entering the unfamiliar Paddington Rec dressing
room it was clear that a number of the Reds players (and manager)
were clearly shell shocked and agitated at not being in the pub...
Al's mood was certainly not helped by the presence of the 'infamous'
Dennis who within 5 minutes of arrival had broken the pump and
ensured we only had one match ball. Worryingly dependable captain
Irish Pete and Will were nowhere to be seen with kick off fast
approaching. Speculation that the 27 mile cross London bike ride
to Maida Vale had proved too much for Pete were quickly dismissed
as ludicrous. Thankfully both arrived just before kick off - with
Pete blaming London's public transport and Will appearing to blame
a "useless c*nt" by the name of Joss...sadly neither
arrived in time to see Mr Rogers fall flat on his ar*e during
the warm up - Tom appeared to particularly enjoy this moment. |
| Onto the game itself and the
Reds seemed to pay a little bit too much respect to their opponents
in the first 15 minutes standing off and letting them control
the game. However the pattern of the game changed not long after
when Tom (twice!) scored a penalty - and then another Reds player
scored to make it 2-0 (I can't for the life of me remember the
goal or who scored it - I'm sure it was very well taken). Shortly
after a mix up on the left allowed the Green Oak Morton striker
to smash an impressive shot into the top corner to reduce the
deficit to 2-1. Just before half time the Reds match reporter
was forced off injured after the Green Oak wingers boot to his
jaw forced his tooth right through his lip - every cloud has a
silver lining though with Al taking great comfort in the fact
that only a minimal amount of blood had gone on the shirt despite
heavy bleeding - cheers Al. Half time 2-1. The second half performance
was much better with the reds dominating play and a deserved third
goal duly arrived with James smartly lobbing the keeper when clean
through. That's how the score remained and all in all it was a
decent performance against a team who early on threatened a great
deal but never really delivered. |
| Now onto the interesting bit:
the after match celebrations - on entering the rather salubrious
bar Irish Pete still wearing the mystically powered captains armband
under his shirt was off like a rat up a pipe - straight over to
3 young ladies to share some Irish banter. Not to be outdone Dennis
ensured he was sporting some quite outstanding tartan pattern
trousers that Paddington Bear would have been proud of. The rest
of us were left to merely imagine what disgusting acts we could
get up to with the filthy looking fit blonde sporting a sweatband... |
| Many beers were
consumed and a great time was had by all. As closing time approached
the promise of some tender loving care from an attractive blonde
proved to much for the reds match reporter and he departed. However
I am reliably informed the North London crew of Rogers, Mark,
Steve, Joss, Will, and Al decided to visit "the dodgiest
bar in Stoke Newington" (Mark B) for some late night binge
drinking - it was here that star striker Mr Rogers charmed a young
(but fit) Lithuanian despite (or possibly because of) her lack
of grasp of the English language. Now different stories regarding
the age of Miss Lithuania have been banded around from 'barely
legal' to the grand old age of '23'...lets just leave it there... |
| So in the early hours the remaining
reds wandered home - Rogers with Miss Lithuania to ply her with
drink in a vain attempt to hang out the back of her and Mark
all the way to Arsenal to wake up his girlfriend and her housemates
before proceeding to wake up at 5 in the morning for a toilet
break and mistake her mirror for her bedroom door and then attempt
to remove it from the wall as it was 'jammed!?'...well played
mate!
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Man of the Match: Mr Rogers - 1
goal and 1 'minor' - good form.
Muppet of the Match: Dennis for the pump and trousers or Mark
for the mirror incident - you decide. |
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