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With this North London siege mentality in mind the fixture started with four predominantly defensive and wing playing Bibs and an out and out striker against four exceedingly attacking Muftis. Knowing that Avvon might be on his way the Bibs were exhorted to score goals early on while they had the numerical advantage. The best that was achieved in this short period was 3 - 2 to the Bibs.

Avvon arrived, without much ado he was declared an Arsenal supporter and the sides were even. The balance of the teams suggested that the Muftis would rain shot upon shot down on the Bibs with almost evangelical zeal while the Bibs would try to feed Nathan so he could be their Harry Kane. This however proved not to be the case as Arik and Koonal joined Steve in having a high line running battle with AlMhaer, Luteus and Avvon in the middle of the pitch.

As the game progressed the Muftis drew level and despite the heroics of the bibbed goal keepers the Muftis spent the majority of the match ahead by between two to four goals. The zippy passing movements of the Mufti's front line might have been the undoing of the Bibs but Nathan was on a roll and back to his imperious best shooting on sight and making well taken chances for his colleagues. Whilst Jon was scoring with Luteus, Avvon and AlMaher; Steve in his own characteristically quiet and understated manner was weighing in with goals here and there to ensure that the Muftis did not get out of sight.

As the night wore on and the clock ticked down it was 18 -14 to the Muftis and all that was being played for was the pride of the Bibs. JonF, Scott and the Arsenal faithful were on the verge of punishing the rest of the world on a Tottenham ground, theoretically it does not get much better than that. The hour was up and the Bibs had pulled the score back to 19 - 17, other teams arrived but as if it was preordained no one came to our pitch.

Koonal in goal for the Bibs had to go. The Bibs bagged another goal and begged Koonal in the name of all of the Tottenham faithful across the world to stay for just one more goal. He did this admirably and a move worked the ball up to Nathan who was off bearing down on the Muftis' goal. Playing a captain's game Nathan gave the Muftis no chance as he banged a goal in to draw the match level 19 - 19.

Discussions ensued between Niyi and Nathan as to whether to offer the Noble Draw to their opponents and end the match. As this was being explored the ball fell to Steve who without a moment's hesitation set off on what can only be described as a storming run down the right and lashed the ball past Scott again. Two goals in two minutes and the match was suddenly 20 - 19 to the Bibs.

It was nearly 20 minutes into time added on, Avvon set off on one last attack with AlMaher, Luteus and JonF but the Muftis' goal was empty and there was no defence either. Conscious of the stern reprimand from Jorge the previous week, about players continuing to play when the match was clearly over, everyone stopped in a mixture of disbelief and exultation. Koonal was packing his bag, the match was in effect over.

Steve had completed what is believed to be his first double hat trick and in the process scored the goal that had spectacularly gunned down the Arsenal fans in time added on.

Match awarded to the Bibs (AKA rest of the world) 20 -19.

Things to Note

There are no easy matches at this level. I repeat, There are no easy matches at this level.

We sometimes note that the fortunes of fans in our fixture is later mirrored at the professional level. An example being recent European form for our favourite clubs. Footballers are a superstitious lot! Have AlMaher, Avvon, Jon F, Luteus and Scott set the wheels in motion for a valiant Arsenal performance capped off by a last gasp heartbreak in their next match? We will see on Monday.

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