Despite having the unheard of luxury of 2 subs the Sunday septuagenarians creaked to another defeat this time 0-3 against table topping Winterbourne.
With manager ‘Big Martin’ injured the villagers took to the field with the unusual ‘Barcelona’ tactic of no recognised striker with just 59 year old Stinky Turner pushed on to “run about a bit.”
A decent start to the game with Gifford having most of possession albeit on the edge of their own box however a misplaced pass in midfield allowed winterbourne to break 2 on 1, the 1 being yardie who despite a valiant attempt at fouling his man was beaten,unsurprisingly,for pace and a cross shot beat cooper for 1-0.
With players rotating with the subs at alarming frequency Martin’s instructions were reduced to “just sit in… Oh anywhere”.
Winterbourne had two efforts hit the bar and Coops made a couple of decent saves while Giffords only effort was a shot from 35 yards from Eddie which scarcely troubled the perimeter fence.
The second half began with the manager laying down seemingly dozing on the touchline while the game settled into a similar pattern as the first half.
The major talking points were an aerial challenge by Stinky which left Monker pole axed and unable to continue, the portly firefighter getting a booking for his 20th clumsy foul while his teammates urged the ref to send him off!!
And a couple of spawny goals, one which took a deflection of the firefighter and went through Cooper’s legs and one in the last minute which rebounded off the bar straight onto the head of a 6’8 giant who put it past a perplexed Cooper who had just got up off the floor.
It could have been worse but for a superb headed clearance from May who put over the bar from six yards with Parker waiting to strike, twas a tad harsh of cooper to comment “you would have done the same at the other end”.
True but harsh.
Next game sees the titanic battle between the bottom two for the wooden spoon followed more importantly by the end of season piss up.
Mom: Cooper(59)
Quote of the day Aero: “That was like a slow painful car crash!”
