It was an early start and hammering with rain this week. There had been a fairly serious booze up the previous night which meant Hutton turned up annihilated having not gone to bed, and there were a couple of people feeling delicate. \012\012Perhaps it was the alcohol fumes that had put everyone in a good mood, and we even forced a laugh when our favourite ref in the world turned up. \012Immediately before kick off Sunil asked the man in black if this week when he \012asked ‘how long left? ’ he would get an \012answer. The ref took out his notebook and made a note to self “make up the rules this week, no one will notice” \012\012The game kicked off and we were straight at them. The wet pitch made for some juicy early challenges, but it wasn’t all on the ground. 3 mins in and we had a classic "Boland’ head thwarting the Ace’s attack. The defence seemed impenetrable with ‘Mr Consistency’ Andy Croll mopping up \012everything and his faultless performance was ultimately to see him get the man-of-the-match award. \012\012In a real turn up for the books we seemed to get on well with our opposition this week who seemed like good lads. One was even kind enough to put one past his own keeper to put us 1-0 up. \012\012Clearly stung, the Ace’s came right back at us. A rapid counter attack saw their striker through on goal, but Boland put paid to his dreams of glory with a tackle that will go down in history. The Ace’s forward was quoted as saying that he hasn’t been that \012cleaned out since his last colonic. \012Despite falling off the wagon in spectacular style the night before, Sickboy was a menace to the opposing defence. His industry resulted in a corner which was well defended. \012\012One of the Ace’s players had clearly been reading the ref’s notebook, and in a quite incredible passage of play picked up the ball with both hands and took a throw in, in the middle of the park. Of course, play was waved on. Supporters of both teams watched in amazement. \012\012TGA were battling hard and it was just \012reward when Sickboy nicked one in from \012inside the 6 yard box. He’d been telling all who would listen that he would score in the game and made good on his promise. His confidence up, he then decided to showboat on the left with a move that Cruyff would \012have been proud of.This was followed by a very harsh offside decision from the ref, who had a great view of it from his position on the dark side of the \012moon. \012\012The Ace’s side were tenacious and started to put us under a bit of pressure. Tetsuki showed that he can also defend and dealt with a couple of dangerous moments very calmly which inspired us to push forward, and Frank did. He got into a good position and muscled a defender off the ball, although his explanation to the official that he ‘only pushed him’ didn’t wash. Boland was upset that he missed a guy with one tackle and an unusually reckless follow-up saw him booked. \012\012The second half started in the same vein with Frank lashing a shot across goal, before a lovely ball in from Phil Harding found Tetsuki who pulled his half volley wide. Another superb ball in from Harding found Ben Morely who had been booked for a hand gesture to the ref, and, fearful of being booked again for scoring, he shot high over \012the bar. \012\012Changes up front saw Will come on and run at the Ace’s, and Manager Howard with a 4 min cameo, getting a shot on target and securing a penalty after being chopped down in the box. \012Sickboy had promised he would dedicate a goal to a girl at Saturdays party and so stepped up to slot home the pen with what he described as ‘controlled power’. \012\012The game was wrapped up, but before the \012final whistle Tommy ‘turn up drunk and play up front’ Hutton scored a blinder. Sadly it was in the 5 a side net, 20 yards wide of the real goal. Another 3 points. Another good performance and turn out. Roll on TGA \012\012