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A quick bit of admin –We finished so late that people had to rush off last week. Please could everyone check that their subs are correct. Let me know of any issues please.

Players

Mufti

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AlMaher, FRLambert, JonF, Luteusmaximus, Milo, Niyi

Orange Bibs

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Barkball, JakeFlowers, Johnny, Scott, Steve

Prior to kick off FRLambert explained to us that his player name comes not from the England striker Rickie Lambert but from the ex Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert. He explained to us that his idol is a Celtic hero and also a Champions League winner. Our football is special, we not only play but we love learning the history that underpins the beautiful game. Paul Lambert we salute you all the way from Tottenham Wednesday.

We played with uneven sides six Muftis against five Bibs, ironically we had turned away a guest who really wanted to play. In the build up to the match Steve, in his normal quiet unassuming manner, gently advised FRLambert that he saw him as a young Paul Gascoigne. Having placed this weight of expectation on a player in only his second match Steve then casually selected FRLambert to play for JonF’s Muftis.

Luteusmaximus, now playing in the role of striker thrust upon him the previous week, opened the scoring to put the Muftis into a 1 – 0 lead. Thereafter for all of 10 minutes the Muftis executed their master plan of using their superior numbers to frustrate the Bibs’ front men and limit them to shots from distance. The match was initially close but as significant portions of the Muftis’ defence moved to attack the game began to be edged by the Bibs. Inexplicably finding space Scott and Barkball then Johnny and JakeFlowers pressed forward wave after wave picking off goals then rushing back to defend.

FRLambert took the game by the scruff of the neck and along with Luteusmaximus notably plundered a respectable four goals each. No matter what the Muftis did the Bibs seemed to take it in their stride and do just enough to stay at least two goals ahead. Barkball was noted for the regal way in which he would commandeer an attack, talking his team through the stages, and if smothered by the opposition would simply shepherd the ball back to his own half and build again. Allied to this Johnny would bring the ball forward and if he encountered any troubling opponents he would jink past them and fill his boots. If it were possible for the Muftis to nullify Barkball and Johnny then in doing so it meant taking their eyes off of Jake (the goal machine) Flowers and Scott the general. To add further pain to everything else, the Bibs were playing rush keeper which meant Steve could start his trade mark mazy runs from his own area.

By full time the score was around 14 – 10 to the Bibs (also let’s remind ourselves the Bibs only had five men). Because the other team did not turn up for their 9pm slot we played on. And on. And on. It became one of those nights when the team who were behind seemed to want to play until they could catch up - a sort of Fergie Time if you like. It wasn’t to be, indeed the Bibs would not allow it to be. Despite a late rally and FRLambert scoring the final goal of the evening to bring his tally to five and the Muftis’ score to 13 the match ended with the Bibs having scored 16.

Match awarded to the Bibs 16 -13.

Things to Note

Has anyone noticed how our club motto is being quoted by pundits in relation to Leicester? Well we used it first, so there .
Formerly half of a hugely successful dynamic duo with JonF, Steve has now thrown his lot in with Johnny and Scott and has enjoyed crushing victories over sides captained by JonF.
Barkball, Johnny and Scott have not put a foot wrong so far and could be the beginnings of a new trinity at the club.
Is it too early to talk of a Trinity? The quintessential footballing question is how will the emerging Trinity fare when the professorial giants of Adrian and Jorge step back into the fray? Watch this space because we at least know that our genio del fútbol has had enough and is coming over from Spain.

Get booking lads the next match could be the day of reckoning.

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