Mens 3XI Vs Caradon

The Magic 3s VS table toppers Caradon 

The magic 3s had a long journey to embark on over the weekend as they prepared to face the table toppers at Lipson. For some it was a long walk as parties of the team arrived 40 minutes late. Definitely some pregame nerves as the captain for the first time this year got the team selection correct during the traditional warm up. The game started and right off the mark before anyone had time to say the word Gerrymandering we found our self’s trailing by two. Denzel decided it was a football game and thought we needed a coach as he subbed himself off for the Zimbabwean. As he stood on the side studying the game like an Ornithologist studies birds, he chanted out what the team should be doing. The magic 3s had some promising counter attacks but the strikers had a bit of a problem, aka Dezbra who wanted to play football and Roy successfully trying to emulate Ben Barnes, by not being able to pass the ball further than a few yards. Half way through the first half we were 3-0 down and our short corner defenders were looking very silly when Caradon just kept the goals coming, some good efforts were made but the ball just kept finding its self in the goal, it felt like we only had 10 players on the team as Alex Maggs was too busy trying to be Robson Green on extreme fishing and getting a few nibbles from the opposition, at half time we found ourselves trailing by 6 goals to none. 

The team definitely had to ameliorate in the second half and so the 3s did, credit should go to the half time snack break proudly sponsored by Doooouuuuugggg as well as the half time motivational captain’s speech where he could only get 3 words out, as other team members could not stop adding to what was going disastrously wrong. The half time squabble was like the House of Commons, however something definitely changed, as we pulled up our socks and started to take control. We eventually got a few short corners but it was tough as the umpires had the vision of Stevie Wonder, especially when it came to Barnes’ style back sticks. It seemed to be a fair and evenly match second half with some good linking between the half’s and the wingers creating a few good opportunities. Out of nowhere due to the support of his girlfriend Tyler found the ball at his feet and took a swing, and GOAL, we knew it was conciliation but it was better than nothing. Then Charlie had had enough so he took an act out of Grown-ups 2 and faked an injury. The final whistle finally went, it was over. 

Man of the Match: Antony Puttock (Jiggly Puff) 

Dick of the day: Garbs