Friday, 28 November 2008

FC Royale With Cheese 0 - 5 Real Diggler

Scorers:

Ed, Paul and Bob


Friendly Result.

Real Diggler 2 - 5 Badger Farm FC

Scorers:

Niel, Dean

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

i scored? thats awesome. so a clean sheet and a goal. good stuff. Englands number 1!!

ropeyontour said...

So we win 5-0, that is not a report that we usually give to a Diggler game. But are run of good form has obviously scared Real with cheese so much they couldn’t face us. So we win 5-0.

But on to the Friendly that was organised against FC Badger Farm. So we find out on Tuesday that we are playing another team in a friendly, and they want to go up to our league. By this point we already know that we have lost our young jack of all trades dynamo to the fun and flashing lights of Euro Disney. Next we have lost our midfield engine to basket ball, later turning to an injury. Our man mountain in defence was going to be tied up with the horrors of work. And last we were down the flamboyant Ben to the lures of New Model Army (well it wasn’t that but it was all that came to mind). So from 9 we were down to

So then we will roll on to Wednesday, and we find out that we have lost Bob to the depths of Guilford and Capitalism, and with that the ringer that he was bringing down with him. So when the calculations were done we realised that we had were down to 5 players, god we could even post a full team ourselves, bugger!! So break out the emergency text system, “Calling all players, we need some player otherwise we will need to forfeit the game!” So in comes Neil’s friend from the Eastleigh team, and another Whincup Defender. So Dean, Neil’s mate, and Andrew, Adam’s Brother, came in to fill the gaps. So as this as a back drop our performance was good.

A brief word about Badger Farm FC, who were a bunch of weedy young nippers. But from there practice it looked like they played together for a while. And there captain was called Janeway, which was noticed by the geeks very quickly. Lets just say that this match wasn’t going to be very serious on our behalf.

So to the match… Well I will say this now, my reporting skills are not the best so there may be a few gaps. In my mind are the following scenes are mashed and linked up together with Benny Hill music.

The starting line up, in goal Chris, defence was handled by Adam and Paul, and up front was Ben H, Neil and Dean. With Andrew as a sub but in the second half he was in goal.

We started well, until two minutes in we let in the usual goal. But this is with Chris in goal, and his Ice Planet gloves doing nothing to help the ball shoot into his off side.

Some crunching tackles, including a slight slip of a defender and an impression of a superman by an opposition forward.

Some lovely link up play in mid field by Ben, Paul and Neil.

The opposition knew what they were doing but seemed be concentrating on trigonometry instead of the game, every now and then shouting “Remember Triangles”. The reply to which seemed to be “Remember the Squares, circles or small cuddly toys”.

Then there was the Ref pointing to a hand ball, and refusing to say who gave it away and also the other team not asking for.

A kick to the face of another player that was going over his shoulder. He grabbed it and shouted ball to face. Free kick, my arse! But fate brought this back around, a ball intercepted, Neil’s foot just getting in the way, a little bounce and straight into the face of the opposition. No malice just bad luck, and a contested drop ball.

And the corners, as a stoic defender I made sure that I was 2 metres from the person taking a corner kick. One time the defender chipped the ball up into my crossed arms and called for a hand ball, which was denied but led to the break. Cheeky bugger!

As for the goal keeper, we sprayed him with shots, lost a few balls over the fence and missed a few sitters. But he did get knobbled when he came out a little too far with the ball.

The goals were spectacular and well celebrated. With goals scored by Neil and Dean, the Eastleigh Duo.

There was a crunching duo in defence of Adam and his brother Andrew, obviously hard tackles run in the family. And with the opposition being slight and young I do not believe that they would want to play us again soon.

The game ended as 5-2 to the young ones, but I do not believe that is a fair showing. We had a lot of players missing and we were not playing very seriously. But in all our games I believe that this was the most fun, and most amusing to say the least.

But for those who have not guessed we have won our first game!! This was just a friendly. In the league we won 5-0. But when asked who the goal scorers were I gave the 2 who had scored, Neil and Dean, but was asked who else would like the scorers for the other 3 goals. And then I remembered the words of Bob in an Obi-Wan Kenobi kind of way, “We must get everyone on the score sheet”. The other scorers are Bob, as the goal keeper should always have a goal, Ed as he is deserving of a goal and Paul for all his efforts in sorting all this out so far.

All I can say is, We went balls deep and came back smiling.

Adam

Anonymous said...

I enjoy being described as similar to Obi Wan-Kenobi.
Anybody got any idea who can and cant make tomorrow?

Benji "Pink" Floyd said...

I'm there Bob, you got a gameplan?