The
car rolled out of the driveway, the throb of the German 5 pot, a
sound to behold, gliding on to the motorway the Audi automatic blew away
the jappers surrounding him, a slick low lying aerodynamic rocket
compared to his brutish black brother quattro.
We
entered the East Coast Bays stadium and instantly meet the welcoming
smiles of Jan and Phil and some of the Westie youngsters … a good
afternoon was indeed coming.
But the Black and whites were also ready, having raised their largest starting squad for twenty years, to make sure there was no embarrassment like last year.
We
took the field, Jan in goal, Nick, Phil, ECB Mac and Shaw in defence,
Karl, KJ, Mike, Lance in the middle with Marc and Joseph up front.
Instantly
the Bays attacked, sensing a weakness, but they were repelled and it
was young Joseph (KJ's boy) who had the first crack at goal with a
sensational shot from 40 out, just going a few inches over the bar.
The black and whites again attacked, but the Reds held strong, they then fluked an opener, but United attacked back straight away and KJ hit a beauty from outside the box to
equal the score. The game was end to end for a while and by the close
of the first half, we were unlucky to be two more goals down.
Into
the second and the Bays got lucky again when our keeper couldn't get
down to a shot, but after that it was all RED, with Skip (just
arrived) and Karl and Joseph ripping apart the old boys, but they
couldn't stick them home, missing at least six shots, all by less than a
couple of feet. The Bays team was starting to feel their age and the
RED Machine was relentless, but we couldn't finish our fantastic
breaks and in the end, the Magpies got a deserved win.
