Hyper Hyper Hyper!!!
After last weeks excellent performance against the table toppers, we were confident of getting a good result against bottom of the table Maccabi.A scare ran through the squad prior to kick off when Napoleon who was on drinks duties rocked up without any beers!
This unsettled the squad from the off and things only worsened as their thirst grew
The defence adopted the Sieve formation allowing almost every Maccabi attack to result in an effort on goal
As always, Karls heroics between the sticks allowed us to make it to the break only 2 down.
We did have a legitimate penalty only given as a freekick as the Ref was too far removed from the play to see that
the tackle was inside the box.
For some reason, we were playing like it was the first game of preseason and unable to string any sort of move
together. We held out for 20 minutes of the second half but again seemed to kick away any moves we did put
together. It wasn't long until another basic Maccabi move resulted in their 3rd goal as our defence again got itself in
a muddle.
This did however fire up the team with both Nap and Jason finding their voices and urging the troops on
After 75 minutes, Nap reassurred everyone he would come off early and go get some beers (at least I think thats
what he said to Tom). Bouyed by this news, the team refound their enthusiam.
Maccabi now thought the game was won and relaxed. Justins presence upfront with Tom was causing problems
with his link play allowing the midfielders to play off him. Tom then received posession from Justin's flick on
(honourable mention to Den) outside the box but instead of going for goal of the season, he drove into the box to
the left, drew the keeper and deftly finished with the outside of the right boot. Belief flooded back to the side and
within minutes Steve put Tom though in the right channel who pulled out a quality finish into the far corner.
At 3-2, the Maccabi Wobbles took over with the defenders booting any ball that came in their direction to the next
suburb trying to waste as much time as possible.
By now Jason had deserted any defensive duty and was bombing down the left touchline causing mayhem and it
wasn't long until a desperate defender stuck out an arm blocking Justins cutback and the Ref pointed to the spot
or at least in its general direction (it took Tom and him a good couple of minutes to agree on its location). Then a
short run up and Smash, it was 3-all with time still on the clock!
The tinkermen on the sideline couldn't resist one more change sending on Selim to allow Nap to get the beers!
The fairytale comeback was almost completed when Selim raced through to be 1 on1 with the keeper and the
whole ground collectively held their breaths as the moved was played out in slow motion. Selim did everything right
making a good contact and getting a solid shot on target, however kudos to the keeper who had raced off his line,
narrowing the angle sufficiently to smother the shot.
What a finish to a game that seemed all over halfway through the second half
So still all to play for with all division 2 sides evenly matched, Game On!
Congratulations needed for:
1) Part Time Assistant gaffer Rod who wasn't afraid to make the big decisions, intelligently using the bench
2) Tom, taking off the new boots and putting on the tried and trusted "goal scorers" and for then ignoring every call to pass 3 yards and go on several overdue mazy runs finally yielding the reward.
3) Toms explanation of the 'webcam' sized beers
Team:
Karl, Kevin, Dennis, Francis, Justin, Steve, George, Terry, Nap, John, Tom,
Interchange:
Leo, Frank, Yoshi, Nelson, Jimmy, Jason, Selim
Out: , Pete, Rod, Keith
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