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Match started with six against six. Players were still asking about ‘Izzy’ at 7.26 on the video. Score was a reasonably even 2 – 2 when Israel90 arrived at 09 minutes into the match. Play was stopped in respect. It was agreed that Israel90 would start with the Dark Tops and at nominal half time switch sides.

By 11:44 Sadulla was fully warmed up. Taking the ball in his own half he spun away from DariusAlexandru and VIIGeorgeVII, ran the length of the pitch, rounded Denzo and buried the ball past the keeper into the net. This brought the score to 3-2 to the Light Tops.

It was 4-4, and about halfway through the allotted time for the fixture, when it was made clear that the Dark Tops would not release Israel90 to the Light Tops. Dabiyani1995 philosophically and quietly observed that the Light Tops would take the moral high ground and grind out a deserving victory.

At 30:40 of the video clock one the Dark Tops shouts “watch Andy lads” the rest of his team duly stopped to watch as AndyHibbert set himself to stroke a sumptuous left foot shot into the net from distance. If defences are going to stop like that then in future players may wish to say “block…” , “tackle …” or even “get …” rather than “watch ..”.

Anyway Light Tops 5 – 4 ahead with a man less.

Dabiyani1995 began to make good on his promise scoring with an assist from Sadulla to bring the tally to 6 – 4 to the Light Tops.

AndyHibbert later on did it again from the same distance out with his right foot to bring the score to 7 – 4 to the Light Tops. All that would remain for a perfect hat trick would be to score by way a of a header from an under head height ball.

In the history of the Premier League, the Perfect Hat-Trick has only been achieved by 31 men. In our fixture it stands at ZERO, mainly because of our head height rule. Our current odds stand at 300/1.

DariusAlexandru reduced the deficit to 7 – 5.

JonF and Dabiyani combined to take the score to 8 – 5 to the Light Tops.

Israel90 fired in from the left for the Dark Tops to bring the score back to 8 – 6.

At 45:10 on the video Dabiyani intercepted the ball in his own half and stroked the ball in from distance. 9 – 6.

As if on a piece of string there were always at least three or four Light Tops back to deal with attacks and then hit the Dark Tops (who did I mention had an extra man) on the break. This happened again at 49:10 on the video clock to take the score to 10 – 6.

Austin, who had been uncharacteristically quiet, brought a save from a fine shot and then scored on the rebound. 10 – 7.

Another mazy run from Sadulla made it 11 – 7 to the Light Tops.

54:22 on the video clock - OK everyone we knew this from the first match back. Austin has the ability to look like the match is going on around him, then suddenly he will pounce and intercept a misjudged pass and guide the ball home. It was déjà vu as he did it again this match to bring the score to 11- 8.

The Centre Manager arrived and we called time after 15 minutes of extra time. We like the sports centre because they are liberal with the time allocation in our favour, whenever they can be.

Final Score: Dark Tops 8 – 11 Light Tops.

Match awarded to the Light Tops.

Things to Note

The Perfect Hat-Trick still eludes the club.
A group of five players has been formed to work out how we can adjust our subscription model to pay in advance of matches. The sub-committee (pardon the pun) is AndyHibbert, Austin, Dabiyani1995, JakeFlowers and JonF,
Anyone behind with their subs, now is the time to dig deep for a few weeks please.
Finally, a small update has been added to the web site so that every time the fixtures page is refreshed the players will be reordered randomly. This can be used for any matches where we decide to play absolute random teams.

Let’s do it all again next match at Tottenham Wednesday FC .