Football Tuesday 13th Jan

Draw!

Whites: Sam, Nanak, Jay, Mungara, Anil
Colours: Amit, Manu, Rajesh, Guarav, Vish

M.o.M: Close one on the whites but it has to be the Mungara, they say the Black Rhino is close to extinction, but last night the conservationists needn’t worry, there was one running around on Pitch 11 causing mayhem and destruction

On another cold night whites showed how less can sometimes be more with a fine display of counter attacking and zonal defensive play. Game started slightly late as per usual but got going with goals being exchanged between the two teams with the whites slightly ahead on play. Colours seemed a little laboured and slow at times and gave the ball away a little too often. With ‘The Lawyer’ back in the game after a 3 month absence his so called long hours in the office didn’t seem to affect his shooting ability helping to put the whites in the lead.

Then came the turning point, Hatchet Man Gaurav biting at Jay’s ankle (literally) putting him out of action. Wasn’t the Hatchet Man involved in his first injury, we will never know!? “It’s a sad day when Kenyan Gang warfare comes off the Nairobi back alleys and onto our football pitches.”

With Jay off at the half way stage of the match the whites knuckled down with a 3 goal advantage. Using a sliding 3 man defence and the Rhino patrolling at the back, the colours grew increasingly frustrated with the missed and fluffed chances in-front of goal. New boy Anil played well, being promoted from the excuse of a football game on Pitch 10 he joined the big boys and slotted in well keeping the ball and using insightful passes in tight corners to put the colours on the back foot. (That said it must be a family trait to take 10 touches before looking up to pass the ball.)

The colours came into the game as the whites tired, slowly regaining the lead through 3 unanswered goals. But this point they should have gone on to kill the whites off in the last stages but stray passes really let them down. With the last 10 and colours one up, Hatchet Man made the fatal mistake of not getting the ball to safety and from a tight angle Dead-Eye D1ck (for the past 2 weeks anyway) managed to slide one in. Colours came straight back into it and got themselves one up again moving the ball about and creating the extra man in front of goal. As the other pitches were winding down and the lights fading around them, the whites never gave up, in the last few kicks of the game, the Rhino rampaged up the right wing, leaving bodies behind like mangled wrecks in a junkyard. Swing of the right boot and in it went. Whites level, game over!

Football on Tuesday 06/01/09

Whites by 2

MoM - Sam

Playing conditions had to be the coldest in the history of tuesday football. There was no time for pre-game chit chat/ banter, it was straight into the game to survive the cold.

Colours seemed the stronger on Paper. But after last night just ask Derby county if that really matters. With some help of the opposition, whites got off to a flyer. scoring 4 goals very quickly, 3 of which were either deflected or own goals. it seemed the gods were on whites' side that evening, and colours were in for a hammering. However, this only angered colours who came back stronger. Amit/ vish marshalled the defence well and mungara + sunny, the energiser bunny, kept finding spaces in the whites' defence. They clawed there way back and went 1 up with the help of some clinical finishing by Sam. While colours were looking like they were going on to win, Rush + Nii, the more experienced members, restored faith for the whites. It was a close battle from here on, the gap never wider than two goals. Some good teamwork + patient play from the whites, allowed them to take back the lead and see the game out. whites win by 2!

highlights include:

- mungara's awesome piledriver from his own half into the bottom left corner

- Rajesh's last ditch tackle on Sam, surely saving a goal and resulting in Sam saying " where did he come from?"

MOm - Sam - Although on the losing side, def had his shooting boots on!

Amit, remembering your pre-match comments...its seems your unbeaten run in 09 is over!

Colours
Sam
Amit
Sunny
Vish
Mungara

Whites
Nii
Rush
Gaurav
Rajesh
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