More action photos from what was a memorable weekend:
The goalkeeper launches it. Over the course of the day I realised that, in these enlightened times, goalkeepers are really the only players on the field who get to give the ball a good old fashioned welly. Everyone else has to pass it around. Hoof! When I was growing up that was what defenders were supposed to do.
Toby had a storming day. In the following sequence we see a textbook tackle:
Something funny seems to have happened. Perhaps we scored. Joe (centre) managed five in all, top scorer for our team. His fifth came late in the day with Toby on four, Jez on three and Chris on three, so at that point it was all up for grabs.
Gav’s been turned…
Dean puts it over the bar. At least this one was straight. Dean’s shooting technique (and he’d be the first to admit this) doesn’t always lend itself to the ball going where he means it to. In between games he had a few shots, many of which flew towards the corner flag. One went well beyond it, but he retrieved it and belted it back to us. The ball contained so much spin it veered around the goal and in, the equivalent of scoring at the Putney End from inside Craven Cottage. Impossible! But we saw it happen. The miracle of football.
The opposing goalkeeper in this match is a fine footballer. Later in the tournament he decided a sudden death penalty shootout with one of those cheeky dinks. The nerve! Football, eh?
Grad exectutes a Cruyff turn. Later on he scored one of the goals of the day, waltzing through The Idiots’ defence and slotting home.
So there we are. It all raised almost £100,000 for African kids, and was great fun to boot.
Team photo:
