gerbie

Our official last game of the season was an away game to the team nearest to us. Only about 6km away. We decided to take a horse drawn carriage to get there. Breakfast while getting there, play a game and party all the way home. Even our team formation showed that it was the last game of the season, our linesman played, I didn't start. I got in the game at 2-0 down, the same score as halftime.

The referee surprised us by drinking a beer with our injured players, who started early that day. In the second half I scored 2-1, 3-2 and 3-3. The end of the game it was 6-6, crazy second half.

Afterwards we had plenty of booze aboard our slow vehicle. A few stops at bars were a nice interruption, the afternoon ended in the pub of the father of one our players. We had a fun afternoon. Needless to say that by the early evening I had drank quite enough.

One game still due, cancelled last week, but not important for the final table. Not sure if it will be played. If it is played we need at least 7 goals to become the team that has scored most goals in this season from the 8 senior and 3 youth teams of our club.

Not only on sunday, this time we had a game on thursday night as well. We played away to the most unsympathetic team in our league. I remember that from the home match we lost against them, it was confirmed tonight. With their own referee giving them plenty of free kicks during the first half and our own defence playing crap, we were 4-1 down at halftime.

Wherever you play, it is common courtesy to arrange tea at half time for both your own team as the opponents. Tonight we were waiting, but never got any tea. One of our subs went to find out, noticed that the home team got some bottles of lemonade, we got nothing. Not even the decency to say that there wasn't any tea, no apology, nothing. We went to the pitch at least 5 minutes late and played a good second half.

We put them back into their own half and created plenty of chances. I scored one and gave two assists. 4-4 and had the referee not ended the game exactly on time, where several minutes of stoppage time were logical, we would have won for sure. Yet, still a point from a match where we were 4-1 down.

Weekly football update. After a few wins, even a come back victory last week, apparently my team thought we were going to get a result at the unbeaten leaders of the league. How wrong. Within a few minutes we conceded three goals. Optimistic as I am, I still didn't consider this the end of the match, even though we had hardly penetrated their half. We held that score for a few more minutes, but soon found ourselves running behind our opponents more and more. At 6-0 down I decided it was enough to suffer up front, where I didn't have many balls to play, positioned myself as a sweeper behind our defence, or whatever they called it.

3 more goals before halftime meant that I wasn't able to reorganise instantly. 9 down after 45 minutes does also mean that drinking a half time cup of tea isn't a social event. Luckily we had a chance to start the second half normally. With a better defence and a less fanatic opponent we managed to score twice. Final result: 9-2. So we did win the second half, but got trashed in the end anyway. Back to reality. 25 points behind our opponents with 7 games to go, I guess it is safe to say that a championship is out of our reach this season.

For the fourth consecutive week football has been cancelled. After the spring in January, this month has brought us both autumn and winter.