Tuesday, August 14, 2018
14-Aug-2018, Giorgio Chiellini's 34th birthday
Conditions: agreeable.
Players: Adam, Ashley, Ayhan, Ed, Tom.
Highlights:
Players: Adam, Ashley, Ayhan, Ed, Tom.
Highlights:
- played 2v2 (score in the box) with spare person in goal
- Ayhan + Tom remained champs for a while
- Ashley scored delightful volley from Ed's cross
- goals and many tap-ins from everybody
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
20-Jun-2018, Frank Lampard's 40th birthday
Conditions: hot hot hot.
Players: Adam, Ayhan, Chris, Ed, Ian
Highlights:
Players: Adam, Ayhan, Chris, Ed, Ian
Highlights:
- game clashed with actual Portugal v. Morocco world cup game
- strong turn-out sufficient for only one 5-a-side team
- played 2v2 combinations with a losing player in goal
- plus can only score in the area
- various Dream Team pairs won couple of games in a row
- everybody went in goal and everyone scored
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
18-Jul-2017, Alan Pardew's 56th birthday
Conditions: scorchio.
Players: Adam, Ashley, Ayhan, Chris, Ed, Ian
Highlights:
Players: Adam, Ashley, Ayhan, Chris, Ed, Ian
Highlights:
- hopalong Ed declared injury and hung around in goal most of the time
- quality touches from Ayhan in his black shiny M** U** top
- Ed rolled to Ayhan who scooped through to Adam to volley home
- played various 3v3 combinations with Ayhan's team generally winning
- ended with (Adam, Ashley, Ed) v. (Ayhan, Chris, Ian)
- played next goal wins but then Ian scored
- kept playing next goal wins but then Adam scored
- finally played next goal wins only for Chris to score winning header
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
12-Jul-2017, Cheryl Ladd's 66th birthday
Conditions: sunny.
Players: Adam, Ayhan, Ed, Sinan plus guest Rahul's last appearance
Highlights:
Players: Adam, Ayhan, Ed, Sinan plus guest Rahul's last appearance
Highlights:
- on the day drop-outs from Chris and Ian, plus wrong day for Ashley
- played (Ed, Sinan) v. (Adam, Ayhan, Rahul)
- Sinan scored & scored & scored from all angles
- old pair whopped the young trio
- switched to 2v2 with single goalie for last 20 mins
Tuesday, July 04, 2017
04-Jul-2017, Bill Withers' 79th birthday
Conditions: hot.
Players: Adam, Ashley, Ayhan, Chris, Ed, George, Ian and Sinan, plus guest Rahul
Highlights:
Players: Adam, Ashley, Ayhan, Chris, Ed, George, Ian and Sinan, plus guest Rahul
Highlights:
- Sinan returned from injury
- started with (Adam, Ayhan, George, Rahul, Sinan) v. (Ashley, Chris, Ed, Ian)
- kids went 4-0 up and well ahead
- Sinan switched from kids to grown-ups and the game changed completely
- banging goal from Ayhan from the half-way line
- many tap-ins for the oldies
- grown-ups slowly dominated moving to 10-7 up
- Ian glanced in the golden goal with his wrong foot
27-Jun-2017, Tobey Maguire's 42nd birthday
Conditions: pleasant.
Players: Adam, Chris, Ed, George, Ian and Tom, plus guests Rahul and Harsha
Highlights:
Players: Adam, Chris, Ed, George, Ian and Tom, plus guests Rahul and Harsha
Highlights:
- one pass from kick-off to Chris who struck it sweetly into the goal
- good goal from Ian surging forward
- Harsha made late appearance in goal
- ...then watched as George rolled in his next-goal-wins grasscutter
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
20-Jun-2017, Nicole Kidman's 50th birthday
Conditions: scorchio.
Players: Adam, Ashley, Ed, George, Ian and Tom, plus guests Rahul and Harsha
Highlights:
Players: Adam, Ashley, Ed, George, Ian and Tom, plus guests Rahul and Harsha
Highlights:
- initially seven with Rahul so various 3v3 combinations with one person sitting out
- given the heat, much competition to be that person with the stopwatch
- number of shocking misses arising from gravel pitch bobbles
- plus a few row Z clearances over the 12foot fence
- Sinan spectating perched on his imaginary crutches
- with Harsha appearing in goal, switched to 4v4 for last 20 minutes
- win for (Ed, Ian, Tom, Rahul) against (Adam, Ashley, George and Harsha)
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
13-Jun-2017, Alan Hansen's 62nd birthday
Conditions: nicely cool.
Players: Adam, Ayhan, Chris, Ed, George, Ian, Sinan and Tom (!)
Highlights:
Players: Adam, Ayhan, Chris, Ed, George, Ian, Sinan and Tom (!)
Highlights:
- kids (Adam, Ayhan, George, Sinan) v. grown-ups (Ashley, Chris, Ed, Tom)
- cool hat trick for Tom in opening 3-2 for the adults
- return match ended 6-3 to the adults
- quality finishes from Ian, Sinan and Ayhan
- customary Chris meeting meant one final five minute game
- playing next goal wins, Tom smacked it against Sinan in goal...
- ...only for ball to ricochet up the other end past absent rush goalie Ian
