Barely scraping eleven players together to start the match was bad enough, and then I find out that we don't have a referee for the match. Within the first five minutes of the match Robin Lawrence received a headbutt from Long Gollum and went down injured. This shocked all of us. If Rob stays down, you know it must have hurt! He had claret pouring out from a gash just above his right eye, this was the first gash that Gollum had seen this season! Da-Dum-Tush!
Anyway, Rob had to go off, leaving ten on the pitch. Chris Andrews was forced to get changed in order to join Dean at the back. By the time he was changed though, we were already under the cosh and 1-0 down. Jack's Lads increased their lead to 2-0 and that's how it remained at half time. Steve had insisted that Johnny Gray should man-mark the little fella up-front. This proved to be a decision which I completely disagreed with. After catching him offside at least ten times last week, we were now giving him the run of the park as our defence sat on the 18 yard line, playing every cunt onside. Despite the man-marking tactics he managed to net himself a tidy hat-trick. Kind of hints that it didn't work doesn't it?
Anyway, they scored six and most of them were down to bad defending throughout the team. Although I have to say that the lad who kicked the ball straight up in the air from the halfway line is just lucky. It was just an 'ave it clearance that beat our dozy keeper. He had players in front of him and I dare say that he couldn't even see the goal from where he lumped the ball.
As for our two goals, Jacko's finish from distance was class and Streetboy's finish beat their keeper second time lucky.
We need a better turn-out every week if we want to remain competitive for 90mins each week. There will be some constructive piss-taking over the next week or so, directed at some of the lads who didn't turn up because they 'had a hangover' or whatever.
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what a goal for mr jackson, i think that is going to be goal of the season.
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