Wasted Opportunity?

For the first time in months, the sides were as they should be, no substitutes required. This meant a first appearance in quite a while for the Queen of the MoFo, Jamon, who injured himself within the first 15 minutes, and I reckon his next next showing will be quite a ways off. But his was only a reappearance after a long lay off, and not a full debut. That was reserved for the the sparkling green furry ball that the good Dr Shotgun had purchased to try and banish his yips in front of goal. Did it work? Well it didn't fail, and it would be remiss of me (not to mention the terse text I will receive if I do not mention it) the magnificent finish executed against there best shot stopper, Dead Eye. It was a pearler. yse he missed a couple, but not in the style of the last few weeks. back to the game. With Jamon forced into being a keeper for the rest of the evening, the odds looked to be stacked in our favour, and for the opening 45 minutes, it was so. Sharp passing, good movement and and reasonable finishing saw us cruising with a three goal advantage. but we are still not killing them off when they are there for the taking. And as usual, dead Eye made us pay. The Jmf, although still a bunch of rampant shirt lifters, have grown a backbone since the reverses of summer, and kept plugging away, and clawed there way back into the game, and then, via some strange scores, went into the lead. The strangest was the shot saved twice by Clogs, but kept bouncing away, finding it';s way eventually into the back of the net. Shouty parried one into his own goal, I let one between my legs, and we seemed to have thrown it away. But our top scorer of the night, the unusually prolific Shoutster gave us hope. it was good to see us giving our all, after the previous weeks capitulation, but as the clock ticked towards 9 o'clock, our fate appeared to be sealed, as we gave up yet another victory to the forces of gay. How fitting it was though, to see Shotgun ghost into space down the left, and pick up a wayward shot, and slip past the scrambling Jamon to earn a draw in the dying seconds.

I still think this was probably game that we should have won, it was there for the taking. But our winless streak has been snapped, and there are still more than enough chances for us to wrestle back the initiative before the conclusion of the 2009 season.



JMF- Funky, Dead Eye, Jamon, Luklear War and King Dave

EURO E- Euro Bri, Two scoops, Clogs, Shouty and Dr Shotgun

2009 Season

JMF wins - 20

Euro Elite - 17

Draws - 3