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Last chance to keep my goals:seasons ration at 1:1.
Last chance to ruin Ormsby's shot at getting the golden boot

FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL

Will also go in one of the goals for this if no one else fancies it.

INnnnnnn

and I will be attempting to bag the goal of the season trophy

If my body can hold up I reckon I'm good for a half

dan_thw to play an entire half in goal.
dan_thw to be called offside everytime he recieves the ball in the opposition half.
dan_thw to be fouled on and off the ball at all times.
tunde to be allowed to waltz through to an open goal any time he has the ball.
tunde to be passed the ball by the opposition wherever possible.

Think we should reinstitute 'Most improved player' or have some sort of 'Unsung Hero' award, if only to console meths when he fails to win player of the year yet again.

Worst Dan

Tunde's a 1-0-0-10

Cheers

Are you excited? Also, my friend would like to play if there's room. Right-back/right wing.

In I say

(he posted on facebook, but he emailed me to say he's not sure if it got noticed)

Alex is IN

Roy, i'ma punch you in the mouth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuPCG-L8CrQ

shotgun Neymar.

Dan has got his scoring boots on Tunde, in the face for the hookers golden slipper

Tunde is IN

i.e. we have a full house

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REDS
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fw dan_thw
fw Splenic_Artery
rm amnuck
cm waffle
cm egregriousvimto
lm i_remember_laughter
rb the_ravens
cb keiths_tele
cb umlaut_ampersand
lb aboynamedgoo (c)
gk crablin

subs: kenako, Henrik, meths and mhanji

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BLUES
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fw Stealthy
fw malick
rm fishplums
cm JuxtaposedJames
cm 84joe
lm Royter-Hatfood (c)
rb marckee
cb richyblue
cb Alex
lb vamos
gk eltham

subs: lozpawley, Edd, zapsta and jacques_le_biscuit_

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/684/screenshot20111124at172.png/

I wanted Tunde and Dan to be on the same team, the one playing against me.

Operation Tunde for the whores golden slipper

11°C and sunny at 3 PM, falling to 3°C at night. Sunset is 2 minutes before kick off, so expect it to cool off fairly rapidly. Wrap up while you're on the subs bench.

Probably not going to be back in time- problems with the in-laws. Annoying, as I was looking forward to this! Balls.

I like the bit when Jake scored a hattrick.

can't even walk

was a very entertaining game. Thought the Reds outplayed us for large parts of the game but some great defending with the defence, midfield and keeper all throwing their bodies in front of the ball meant we were well in the game.

Also loved the fact that the Tunde v Dan golden boot battle ebbed and flowed throughout until the very end.

Reds dominated possession and play, and yet Blues looked more dangerous throughout. It says something for our backline that all bar one of the Reds’ goals came from outside the area. We only really started to struggle in the last twenty minutes or so when the Reds put enough people up front to occupy our back four and then broke with midfielders making late runs. Bit annoyed that we let it slip in the final few minutes, to be honest. But not as annoyed as dan_thw when I suggested that he wasn’t going to pass to anyone.

Ah well.

Sorry about the goal from the corner as well – I thought I had it, then thought that Will had it, then I lost it and then I punched it into my own net.

Can't remember who did it, but thanks!

But its ok now. Maybe this fact and the game were unconnected.

I think I need to employ my own ball boy to collect my shots. God bless the high fence. Even that didn't stop some of them. However I wish people would stop overlooking my wonderful array of passing. Put your contacts in next time Marckee - might also mean you can see those corners before they go in!

Meths was man of the match for a commanding midfield display both defensively and offensively, but special mention to Jake "25 Yarder" Salmon for some precision long range shooting.

2 - 3 at half time, and Blues go 2 goals ahead with less than 20 mins remaining on the clock. How did they lose that?

Goalscorers
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Reds: Jake (x3), Dan O (x2), Dan S
Blues: Jim (x2), Tunde (x2)

At one point we were a goal away from killing the game, didn't get it and suffered for it. The Reds played superbly, although I think we underperformed as a team which helped them. Having said that, our defence was largely excellent in restricting genuine chances for the Reds. Didn't help that meths actually played well, didn't hear him swear to himself once the whole game.

Anyway, thoroughly frustrating game and yes, I did flounce off in a strop at the end, luckily Arthur remembered to pick up my ball.

as did a lot of the Red team. For my part, I was quite disappointed to concede that lob when I was in net. Almost kept a clean sheet (for about 20 mins). I would have liked to settle in at centre mid as I thought the team was pretty stable at half time and we were pretty much in control. We ended up a bit gappy in the 2nd half and just knackered as a whole in the last ten mins.

15 goals each

I'm studying the FIFA rule book as we speak

Took two hours of replacement buses to get to and from it, had a mild asthma attack first half then ended up in my least favoured position of goal for the part of the game that happily coincided with 25 minutes of solid red dominance.

One goal was my fault, but thankfully it didn't really matter by then as we would have still lost anyhow.

Not sure why the Blues thought we played well to be honest. No offense meant, but our defense spent the first half arguing about where to hold the line, shouting at each other and barely getting any support. Playing on the wing was thankless too, with Jack, Jake, Meths and Henrik just pinging it around for fun with absolutely no one to help tackle at times. It was one of those inevitable games where it just felt like the Reds goals were coming all game to me.

Everyone worked hard and put in a good shift, but we were so out of shape, lacking a spine and nothing much came off. We didn't shout hard enough for decisions either or impose ourselves. At times, there wasn't a single bit of movement or option in midfield and it was one of those games where if we went forward, we had no-one but if we tracked back, we had no-one.

In all honesty, if Dan hadn't taken a shot every time he'd got the ball we'd have lost that game about 9-4.

That's not to take away from some great Reds performances though. Ken in goal was the only one of the games' 17 goalies who didn't put a foot wrong (Jack doesn't count as he didn't have to do anything bar some press ups), Jake was fantastic, meths was brilliant too and scored a peach.

No sour grapes, it just never really got going from my perspective.

Good game.

us reds played some real good passing football at times. Some cracking goals I thought from the bald guy playing up front for the blues, meths and of course Jake.

Meths was great in the centre for the whole game - but I was suprised he was getting so much space... Lee at centre back in the second half was also pretty solid (LEE'S BALL!)

but I thought Henrik had a really good game, barely let anything through to our defense, and kept possession really well. Smee had a great game too. There were some really good passing moves for reds, and I think that pressure eventually told. Joe and Edd were really tough to play past at the start, but I think the never ending supply of reds midfielders meant we could have a rest on the bench or at fullback (hiya!) and let someone else take over.

Quite interesting seeing how the game panned out, it was obvious where each sides strengths were - reds had a lot of midfielders (as mentioned) and could hold onto the ball well, but we lacked a bit up front, whereas blues had a lot les of it, but I was worried whenever the ball ended up with Jim, James or Tunde.

Loved Jim passing to Tunde for a tap in, despite being on a hattrick.

I do not advise drinking the best part of a bottle of port on top of usual saturday night boozing the evening before a football game.

Soz.