Today we woke up to a multiplicity of papers adorning themselves with headlines such as "Mollie's Mugged" and "Maguires Victim of Smash and Grab Raid".
The big question is what led to these headlines when at half 8 last night, we took to the pitch with confidence and youthful enthusiasm granted by the youngest ever Molly line-up. This confidence transformed itself to a rare display of pace on the pitch and confident slick passing which pulled and tore the opposition defence into bad positions leaving gaps for our young up-front trio to hit shots at goal.
The ease with which we took control of the match was written large in the behaviour on an increasingly fractious opposition who pushed and clipped the heels of our players as the first half wore on. However, the trickery continued with the ball being passed between Gareth, Jason and Steve before it being fed to an unmarked James on the left who drilled the ball into the bottom right hand corner. At times, the game felt very easy with the Pirates being restricted to shots from their own half which surprisingly (given my skills are more geared towards close in blocks) left the Gaffer largely untroubled.
So then, what could conceivably lead to the aforementioned news splash?
About one minute before half time with the Mollie's sitting in a comfortable 6-2 lead, the ball came down to our right back corner and was being held up by their midfielder with Gareth attacking the ball. As can happen in these areas, it all got a bit handbaggy when their player swung an arm back and (for the sake of balanced reporting) accidentally hit Gareth in the mouth with a swinging elbow. Cue our cheerleaders shouts of anguish and Gareth and their player starting to push and swing at each other. Easily dealt with you might feel by a sin binning of the two miscreants. However, like a torpedo shot from an opposition defensive quadrant their defender runs the length of the pitch to club Wor Gareth a couple of times about the back of the head . Not Cool. This led to all players being sent off and the match being abandoned as the opposition could not play with only 3 players. A real shame in ending what had been a gilt edged Mollie's performance.
Still, no harm, we confirmed with the referee that in these situations, as we could carry on playing and were winning comfortably, the match would be awarded to us by dint of a 10-0. So then, you can imagine my annoyance after checking the website last night that the game had been awarded the other way. On ringing Goals, i was informed by the manager that it was being handled that Gareth was at fault (despite the 20 yard flying punch) and that in all likelihood, at best we could expect a score draw.
To carry on the piratical and nautical theme, i feel like someone's nicked me boat!
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