Story so far, a lost Friday evening, 2 defeats and a win........ Fourth and last group match against Halifax: who were the Veterans competition winners last year. Against the best team in the group (there is a twist on Sunday afternoon) we were again committed and organised. Halifax had two players in particular who were very good, the lad up front for them, we snuffed out. But equally their lad at the back completely dominated the Halifax half of the pitch. The match never felt like a nil-nil, it was fast and committed from both sides so there was always the possibility of a mistake. Yep, indeed, we made it. A leg stuck out in the penalty area and a tumbling forward. It looked very soft from where I was but a penalty nonetheless. 0-1
We were spared an 8 o clock start on the Sunday which was a good job. We'd made arrangements to phone later on the Satdi evening to see about going out. When I saw Dean on Sunday morning I apologised for not phoning. "But you did" he said giving me a funny look. I have no recollection of it at all - apparently I'd called other people too. I'd gone out with some of the lads from Lens and it's true we had a very good time even though we didn't go anywhere particulally exciting. The highlight of the evening that I remember (!!) was getting the 14 yr old son of one of my new friends from Lens his first lipstick smears off a long-legged mini-skirted Russian blond beauty called Alexandra. "Don't say he's 14, don't say he's 14" wittered on the others we'd managed to collect along the way. "They'll throw us out". Don't worry girls - we were into them for far too much money by then. There was no way we were going to get thrown out :) Back to the football. I left the rest of the slivo back in the room. I could only manage one bit of bacon for breakfast along with six cups of tea, two obligatory asprins then off to the pitch. Preliminary knowkout round v Stockport. Pretty much a stalemate. The highlights for me were a deadleg (that still is giving me trouble) and missing a header I should have buried because I didn't believe. 0-0 extra time 0-0. Penalties 4-5 10 pretty good penalties, our penultimate one hitting the underside of the bar and bouncing down onto the line. 1 cm too high, shades of the QPR semi way back... Out of the competition before 10h00 tant pis. Bury eventually beat Halifax on penalties in the final. We lost to both of them but neither of them were much better than us. If we get a goal scorer for next year we can win the thing ;) Damian PS lots & lots of thanks to lots and lots of people but especiallyto Dean, Roger, Betty and Dave Dowden - Thanks guys A+ _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org MARCHING ON TOGETHER (There's it)
