ok so doing this for smokie (or anyone else bored enough to read my drivel) thought it might be interesting to highlight my performances at footy/badminton to keep him posted on how im getting on over here.
Sundays - Barlow FC (sunday league 11 a side)
Mondays - Badminton (recreational - usually 4 players, 2 simultaeneous singles games)
Wednesdays - (Dynamo Dildo's - 5 a side at powerleague)
Thursdays - (Athletico Pathetico - 5 a side at powerleague)
*NOTE* - i had nothing to do with naming the powerleague teams - always goes down a treat phoning the ladies who run the desk and asking for our kick off times
Wednesday 18/11/09
Ok so last nites game didnt go to plan - we lost 9-7 to "three lions" - a bunch of quick 19 year olds who all think they are ronaldo. fortuantely they arent but they are still a good team. did well and i scored from a quick 3 pass move straight from kick off. after that it was a close game til half time and we were 3-2 down. 2nd half started and the game was a lot more open. anyway we went 5-2 down and then one of their players who was the last man hacked me down on the edge of their box after id skinned 3 players (which i assure you doesnt happen very often) and the ref didnt do anything. He then proceded to send me off (well a sin bin for 2 minutes)!!!!! I may have asked him innocently if he was f***ing blind but it was outrageous that he didnt give the decision when i would gain no advantage from throwing myself on the floor when one on one with the keeper. anyway i apologiesed to the ref for the language but still, he must have been f***ing blind so i feel my question was justified. after my little touchline period i was fitting to get out their and put myself about in an aggressive manner. being the cool headed sort of person i am i decided to put the aggression into playing with a bit more assertiveness about me but the other team werent cheaters (or d***heads) so i didnt want to find myself putting the boot in on the innocents as they had done nothing wrong (even they were telling the ref he was a joker for sending me off). so it was 9-3 to them when i got back on and we put an absolute masterclass of football on and tore them apart, really good passing football and i scored 3 goals as we pulled it back to 9-7 but just ran out of time. think i bagged 6 on the night in total and one was a really good solo effort sending players the wrong way stopping and starting and then twisting my foot as i put it in the bottom corner. hurt a lot at the time but played on (being the big hard man i am what else was i to do). felt ok for the rest of the match but i think i must have been running funny/compensating for the pain as my knee after i got home has felt like its about to pop out its joint. thankfully today was a day of work as i havent been able to walk properly on it.
so all in all a good game spoiled by a bit of stupidity from me and a bad ref. I cant complain if the refs start sending players off every time they say something to them, but somehow i imagine that isnt going to be the case.
LeFtY performance rating = 5/10
