Pavillion United vs Maidonians
11 Sep 2010
2-2
New season, new kit, the sun was shining, Jeff arrived 45 minutes before the match instead of half time and Joe and Chris had not had an argument... could things get any better for the kick off. Well yes, naming the side before the game would be good, but let’s not reach for the stars just yet. Hold on a minute where’s Mr. Cheese. Chris said “he phoned up earlier and said he was late because he thought he was supposed to meet in McDonalds on the A13”. That’s it then. You should have said outside McDonalds.
The intensive pre-season training in Sweden looked to have paid off when for the first 20 minutes we looked very comfortable. Joe hit a good ball to young Danny, who slotted home with calm authority.
1-0
It was obviously early season however. Jeff was starting his engine, but had seemed to fill up with diesel before the game. Meanwhile Shakey spent most of the early stages looking for the new ball in the trees (Bob is going to try the same shot in the warm up next week). The banter was flying about on the touchline until Shakey started to tell everyone about his boat experience from the previous week. The Chuckle Bros. were well prepared for this and carefully ed some matchsticks into their eyelids. Unfortunately Tony wasn’t. The poor bloke tripped over some passing tumbleweed and did further damage to his foot. (could be out for a further 2 weeks.)
Things got even better when Johnny Mann caused confusion at a corner and Pavillion scored an own goal.
2-0
Pavillion started to get into the game though, and we were huffing and puffing without much impact (happily Joe was not having an asthma attack, he was just knackered). Then, a short corner via a moving ball led to a goal back for the home side. 2-1. This meant only one thing; the usual half time bickering was about to commence.
Everyone was soon stunned into silence however. Chris was bringing himself off. A quick check for the history books revealed that this was a once in a 20 year event. Rarer than Shakey going to the bar, Vinny wearing decent clothes, Joe not swearing..... A further check found that he usually stays on until he touches the ball. Also there was a second substitution. Noel was in such a state that he could hardly breathe and had to get Joe to write “LISTEN” on a piece of paper so that he could join in with the half time abuse. Danny Weaver launched into some sign language as he said “no one is talking out there.” What does a shaking fist moving from side to side mean? We were looking forward to the second half as Noel’s replacement Shakey had been banging on about how fit he was due to pre-season bare feet running. Unfortunately he put his boots on.
Mr Cheese was introduced to give the forward line a bit more filling, and combined nicely with young Danny to create 2 good chances. Sadly, unlike his takeaways, he failed to finish them off.
The game got a bit a scrappy, but Jeff was putting himself about, and Danny in midfield was starting to find some form. Then a killer blow. Timmy boy bought something from the dummy salesman on the half-way line; a great cross and bullet header later, and it was all level. 2-2
We plugged away though and overall it was a reasonable start. There is much more to come from this team and a top 10 finish should not be beyond us.
Chuckle bros production.
