30 October 2005 Edgar Hemingway Junior Cup, Round 1 at DUNDONALD ROAD REC. DCFC 2 Matty, Ed pen SCR Kingfisher Reserves 4 by Matty Aitken

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANOTHER 'FRIGHTENING' PERFORMANCE

....... It's behind you!

Chopper (background) is waiting to pounce!

Well where is there to go after going ten games unbeaten? Easy, why not go ten games without winning?

We started brightly showing signs of a team willing to put two bad games behind them. Dan L had a header cleared off the line and we all must have been thinking this was going to be easy. Well it wasn’t because right after that Kingfisher went down the other end and looped one right over Rob the Keeper Coppers head. One nil down didn’t really seem like a problem to us though, anyone can concede one goal and surely we’d be back in this game within minutes. Shame then that a matter of minutes later we found ourselves two down after a bit of defensive ping pong saw the ball drop to a Kingfisher player who struck the ball home while Rob was on the edge of his six yard box.

This was our cue to start playing again. We knocked the ball around nicely for a bit and on the twenty minute mark we got our reward. After some excellent chasing from Leroy the ball fell to a certain Matty Aitken, who, after seeing the keeper wildly out of position expertly stroked the ball home. A stroke of pure genius from, erm ...me.

Okay so this was our chance to grab the game by the horns. 2-1, we were well and truly back in the game. This was until a freakishly good move from Kingfisher ended with a superb header making the game 3-1. Today obviously wasn’t our day.

On the 40 minute mark it was time for the customary Dan L penalty, but all was not well in the stars, something happened that shouldn’t have happened. Dan L actually got us a penalty! You wouldn’t have been blamed for thinking Ed would miss it considering he has to miss sometime doesn’t he? Well today obviously wasn’t the day as Ed sent the keeper the wrong way. 3-2, the game was back on, again.

After halftime we went out feeling the game was now ours, but it wasn’t to be. To cut a long story short we just didn’t look like scoring in this half, their defence done too good a job in blocking us out. In fact things took a turn for the worse after Richie gained a fresh injury that occurred in the children’s playground (don’t ask), and considering he wasn’t playing just sums up our day. This resulted in a new linesman in the shape of Jel who decided the other linesman needed some help on his side of the pitch so ran over to join him. Nice thinking considering we were getting caught offside a few times over that side which our very own Werewolf could have put right. Unfortunately the ref rumbled him and sent him back over to the other side.

The final nail in the proverbial (vampires) coffin came with a long range effort from Kingfisher which found the back of the net, another great goal from them. This time it really was game over. The rest of the game was spent with our own Jekyll and Hyde monster Colin abusing their right winger. If it isn’t your haircut he’s abusing it’s your mum.

Another frightful performance from us. Can we raise ourselves from the dead or will it be yet another tale from the crypt this time next week?