The season is fast approaching and by now I expect you are all up to 20miles a week on the treadmill….I know what your thinking, what drugs have you been taking Rob! Well best you get your butts in gear as the first friendly has been booked and we have at least 2 more lined up, just waiting to confirm dates, so I’m told. Training is due to start next weekend so things are looking good!I can’t write this entry without mentioning the Euro’s. Much like PBFC the Dutch failed to perform when it counted, possible the Colour Orange has that effect?! But what about Russia and Turkey. Two sides who don’t boast the high rolling, cash in the bank names of Van Nistlerooy, Henry, Del Piero – perhaps not so much Del Piero, he is a bit like Kev ‘Holywood’ Sherwood, both brought in for nostalgic purposes more than anything. Grit, determination, team spirit and an excellent blend of youth and ability got these teams through, I like to think much like PBFC. We don’t have the best players in the league, the best looking maybe but not the best players….shit, I forgot about Lawsey and Banksy. I guess we have to put them in as a bench mark for ugliness, a bit like Steve Ograzavich in his hey day, one ugly fucker where all others could bench mark themselves!
Going back to my original point, I take solace from teams like Turkey and Russia, they don’t have to have the best players in the competition but you sure as hell know you have been in a game when you walk off the pitch, we can do the same I’m sure of that!
Congratulation to those who were involved in the 7’s tournament a few weeks ago. We didn’t win any trophies but I think we earned the respect from a lot of the players involved from other teams. We competed with the cream of Lowestoft, literally. We didn’t just pack 7 men behind the ball and invite them on either, we created chances in every game and were beaten by two sides who had some of the best players in both the Anglian Combination and Ridgeons league. Worth mentioning was Lawsey’s attempt to ankle bite Lowestoft Towns first team striker Bradley Hough, unfortunately he was a little to quick to turn and run for ole ‘big bones’!! Also was Kevs gallant attempt to stop the thunderous drive Master Hough put past him. Rumour has it Kev thought he could stop it but before he could lift his arms to parry it, it had gone past him and smashed the stanchion!
It was good to see Hearts of Oak lynch pin Darren Boyd finally pull on an orange Jersey, orange is definitely his colour! His presence was immense both on and off the field as a lot of raised eyebrows were noted from other teams and managers in our league. Targer and Jordan have put pen to paper negotiating lucrative deals with Dan and I’m hopeful of bringing another player along with me to try out with us. What is going on?!
To more recent events off the field we held the Pot Black Sports day come beach event. It was a great laugh, highlights had to be Butcher the cripple trying to run and catch a ball, myself and Dan doing the dizzy sticks – I honestly thought people were messing about when they were falling over but my attempt proved how hard it was. I swear I was running straight but I proceeded to run straight past the post and reluctantly had to skull the losers forfeit drink! And then Anthony complaining about everyone’s crab technique after coming last in the crab race! As for my fall on the skim board…it was a crowd pleaser, its one thing doing it sober it’s another thing doing it after three pints and a strawpeedo. I was pulling sand out of my arse all day Sunday, makes a change to be sand.
The evening saw us take on the 5am challenge. I say 5am challenge as that is the record held for latest time in the club at this years PB presentation – I think I actually left at about 4.30am which mean it would have been 5am before Wally left. Quite a tame effort this one, Wally rang for last orders at 3am and by then two of the biggest casualties were ‘safe bet’ Danny Rose and ‘outside chance’ Martel. The forfeits really kicked these two in the arse, I knew Rosey was pissed when he got great amusement from shouting with Danny ‘who wants to taste some Martell’ obviously the Brandy… When I over heard Rosey telling Martel he wanted to be inside her and not have her inside him I knew it was time to go home!! As an indication of just how drunken it did get, see evidence in the form of the attached headline picture. I rest my case! I bet you wish you had of turned up now Banksy!! And Vikki reckons she wasn’t event that drunk!! I have this picture blown up, laminated and on my desk at work for those ‘harder times of the day’.
