Whoop! Whoop! Its da Sound of the Police!This was a first for Recreativo - our game being stopped in the second half by the police, who wanted to check whether we were wearing studs! I say police, but in truth we thought they were two police impersonators, pensioners dressed in police fancy dress, the park police we guessed, the hardcore. Farcical scenes ensued as we argued with a Captain Manawarring-esque male cop and an antique Juliet Bravo about what constitued football boot studs, moulded, blades and astro pimples. This was the first game Recreativo had ever played together on astro-turf and we didn't think it would cause such a kerfuffle. In the end, two of Lyric Celtic changed their footwear and the match continued, a mighty fine game of football indeed with a real football score at the end of it. 0-1 in our favour, after a fabulous strike by Joe from the edge of the box.
With a handful of players making their debuts, some of our squad playing for Lyric for a half, a dog bursting our best match ball, the police intrusion and general strangeness of being in
a distant part of town again, it felt like another fabulous sunday outing, a top Recreativo away day. We actually played some very good football at times and despite losing some of our younger kids over the summer, our grown up industrious squad will see us through a long season ahead of us. Well played the new lads!Team : Chris Read, Mario Pisano, Jimmy Lloyd, Gregg Morgan, Jimmie Gregory, Nick Candy, Adam Bradbury, Joao Spinola, Lee Walsh, Onur Uzan, Joe Dunthorne, Alec, James Humphreys.