Saturday 7th December
Ladies 6s 0 – 4 Barnes Blazes
Twas the last match before Christmas, when all across the pitch,
The ladies 6’s were running, even with a stitch
Pink stockings were donned by the players with care
With hopes that victory soon would be there
Our POM was Nici, who had a stormer
As she dove for saves left, right and centre
To Andrea we do owe our thanks
Grateful to have her our ranks
We gave Barnes Blazes a run for their money
Whilst Storm Darragh ensured it was not sunny
Alas a winning result we did not meet
Though the Chalkley sister combo was a treat
We ended with a pitch side birthday cheer
And then raised a glass for all we hold dear
Fun continued at the OC sparkle delight
Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!
Saturday 14th December
OCs over 55s 6 – 2 Burnt Ash
As Man City fell to yet another defeat on Sunday the parallels with their preparation for the Manchester derby was frighteningly similar to that of our O55s cup team’s to play Burnt Ash. Armed with £550,000,000.00 in the last transfer window and a squad of 56 players Pep has been moaning that he is short of fit players, is struggling to field a decent squad and that two games a week is killing his players. Armed with a laptop, a mobile phone, extreme powers of persuasion and 7 n/as out of 20 Crumbers put out a match winning squad. “I do forget the buzz , the wonderful feeling and the joys of being a skipper putting together a team” he is quoted as saying.
At the 11.59th hour KC Burles was enticed off the stage whilst auditioning for the BBCs 2025 RuPaul’s Drag Race UK with the promise of Crumbers signing an NDA to prevent this information from becoming wide spread knowledge. The fact potential breach of the NDA is defended by their being no case to answer due to Crumbie’s diminished responsibility. During his working day KC is seen wearing a blond wig whilst at weekends dresses up in women’s clothing purportedly to be an ugly sister. Being the true professional KC rehearses every weekend, especially when at his Welsh property with his Welsh neighbours.
The squad was completed when Ado White told Pep to stick his complaints into his pipe and smoke it and agreed to play his second game of the day. Seeing him sitting on the stand pre game in deep conversation with Grant D and Nick A he was absorbing their wise words to such an extent that he ended up taking home the match ball.
There was much too-ing and fro-ing over the date of the match with Burnt Ash sticking to their guns that the match was to be played on the 15th December or a walk over would be claimed. Due to their legitimate demands Burnt “Bridges” Ash came up in the WhatsApp chat but the day ended with Ash die back.
Our squad of 13 had a definite advantage due to our wanting to win and there being a feeling that BA expected to win knowing that we were short. A scrappy first half saw the initiative with BA who took the lead following a well struck short corner only for John “the Box” being set up by Andy Macleod to equalise within a minute. Given that BA won 3 further short corners in the later stage of the first half they were probably disappointed not to have their noses in front.
A few pointers were issued at half time and we came out a different side. BA were hampered by one of their lively forwards picking up an injury thus reducing their options but still they threatened once again taking the lead via a neat finish from another corner. The turning point came when we equalized again within a minute when Ado, positioned Cobra like at the far post, struck with a deft movement putting the first traces of poison in BA’s blood. Their heads went down and a few minutes later the Cobra struck again, rearing up at the far post and delivering the killer blow. Our 4th came from a short corner that went slightly awry before Evo, from left back, tapped home an open play chance. He is still trying to find his way back to his defensive position. Ado completed his well deserved hattrick from his lair in the 1 square metre territory by the right hand post, grabbling the MOM at the same time, just for his 3 goals but for being like a terrier all game and forcing errors in the oppo’s play.
This was an excellent second half team performance where each and every of the 13 in the squad played their part.
Thank you to CJ and the oppo’s umpire who blew extremely well that was evidenced by there only being two moans throughout the whole game.
Our cup fortunes spill into the next calendar year with stato Ian K filling his working Monday morning in the best possible way by working out the permutations of round 3. His theories may of course be a load of bo**ocks.
Good luck Crumbers in sorting out the next squad if we have everyone available.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year one and all.
MOM Ado
Goals Ado 3, John Martinz, Knappy and Evo.