A Floody marvellous match!!!

Pre-match conversation revolved around the fact that Tim and Rich's schools were closed today because of the likelihood of flooding in the Yarmouth and Bungay areas this morning. Consequently, they had a day of doing bugger all apart from concentrating on their pre-match routines before Friday afternoon's big match. Surely, this would them a distinct advantage over the other Soccernighters who had done a full day's work before play commenced.

When we arrived at the hallowed plastic of Pitch A, we were distressed to see another bunch of lads warming up ready to play. Negotiations for them to "get off our land" and go to another pitch did not go well initially. Fortunately, the ever-efficient Guy was able to produce his booking slip which persuaded them to piss off to the non-hallowed pitch B.

We got off to a decent start - 6 vs 6 of the coldest night of the year so far. Plenty of running ahead, I thought. The sides were evenly balanced and a good five minutes of football ensued. Then, Darren turned up! (traditionally, the role of "late-comer to make the sides uneven" always seems to fall to Jas, but he was obviously unavailable this evening!!!)

So, 7 vs 6 it was then. The Colours, consisting of Shaughen, Rich, Tim, Simon, Guy, Tony and Piers would surely make the extra man count against the Greens: Chibb, the two Joes, Darren, Geir and myself. The Colours got off to a good start, dominating possession and scoring the odd goal here and there to take a deserved lead.

But suddenly, out of nowhere, the tide turned. The Greens started to play flowing football and produced wave after wave of attack. The Colours' defence was proving leaky as the Greens surged ahead for the first time in the game.

However, the Colours could not be stopped. 3 down with 5 minutes to go, the Greens seemed to have run out of steam and suddenly it was much harder to "KEEP THE BALL" and play it "SIMPLE"! The Colours scored two in quick succession and then an equaliser with the last kick of the game in about the 17th minute of time added on. (maybe it was the fourth!)

So, numerically the score was a draw, but the Greens were morally victorious, having played some great stuff, battled resiliently when they didn't have the ball and didn't resort to launching the ball twice from their own half to a lone striker standing two yards from the goal line to tap it in whilst playing with an extra man. (I'm not bitter or twisted!)