Finally 8 agreed to play at Bracknell and with myself as a travelling umpire, sort off, we nearly all got there on time. Rob Fisher decided to take a more exotic route, which seemed to involve Windsor castle and Legoland. He had some Christmas presents to get and finally arrived some 20 minutes late.
Bracknell knew we were short, and were pleased to see 8 finally make it, as they thought we would only have 5. You can put this piece of information down to management, who do not like raising expectations. They then lent us 3 players in white, one of whom said he had never played before. So the reds and the whites ended up playing the blues.
Bereft of their usual centre forwards, Namo is on a holiday looking at the finer points of Greek sculpture, whilst John Campbell was waiting for his invite to the annual comedy awards. He is still waiting. Berkhamsted took the unusual step of asking Iwan Roberts to play centre forward, on the grounds that he was moving about the D, and at 15 years of age, looked good. The Bracknell 3 were also very useful, including the none player who we would sign, if he lived nearer.
The game started and so did Iwan. In the first half he scored three goals and the second two, or was it the other way round. Berkhamsted astonishingly scored 6, as one of the whites, John, got a goal.
Because of the shock the defence let in 3. This would have been 4 but for an extremely athletic, twisting, revolving save from goalie Colin, who in mid flight kicked a goalward bound shot away for a long. He even didn't complain about a bad back afterwards. So the result was Bracknell 3 Berkhamsted 6, Iwan Roberts 5. I cannot remember us scoring this many for a long time or a centre forward getting 5. I need Rous the historian. Meanwhile there is quandary what to do with returning comical Greeks? |
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