No thanks to Bob for this review.
Saturday 1.15pm, a confident 11 people met in the Chigwell Police car park. Followed slightly by Chris our illustrious leader who parked in a non parking bay and decided to give the team a rallying inspirational call to arms by telling everyone last weeks balls up was not his fault.
So with everyone in a positive frame of mind off to the Police dressing rooms we hopped.
Onto the pitch with about 3 minutes to spare we were armed ready and dangerous. One of the opposing sides asked if Chris was our mascot as they recalled one of their dads used to play against him so we knew it could be a long afternoon.
The game started brightly and we managed to keep a respectable 0-0 score line for 7 minutes. On the 8th minute the ball given away in midfield was picked up by the Chigwell Police left winger who danced around 17 players before putting it into the net.
Now anyone who knows this team well enough knows that we are at our very best when it’s backs against the wall, this is when as a team we dig into our reserves find the Dunkirk and together as a unit come out fighting. Unfortunately it was amongst ourselves. Someone said something that upset someone which resulted in some people (Noel & Chris) showing each other their tonsils before kick off.
1-0 down with the roll in our favour we picked ourselves up and should have had an equaliser, Tony (it was Cheesey’s fault honest) put the ball over the bar not realising he had more time than he had. Only other moment of note in the first half was the booking of Wattsy by the referee for abuse which in itself is a feat in itself seeing as hardly any of us has heard Wattsy speak.
Following a cracking shot by their left midfielder on the wing into the break we were 2-0 down.
After kicking the S&*t out of each other at the team talk, Shakey announced he was injured at half time insisting it had nothing to do with their left midfielder tearing us apart. Jeff however had taken care of him accidentally and to everyones relief their number 6 failed to return for the 2nd half.
Buoyed by this we took to the field confident that a 5-4-1 wasn’t needed (well 1 person was) and we will turn the deficit around.
Final Score – Essex Police 6, Maidonians 0.
Guess the 4-4-2 wasn’t the best tactic to deploy in the second half. Much merriment was had in the dressing room afterwards and we all had a jolly good laugh about how the afternoon went down, I left with Chris and Noel in each others arms hugging and I am sure there was a little tear rolling down little Rowlatts cheek.
