When will this winter ever end? Summer football at Clissold
Park just can't come soon enough.
Another defeat here pushed us a little closer to Division 2
but on a day when nobody in the country wanted to play it was a top effort from
everybody who made it.
Even the two Canadians making their Reccy debuts, Sandro and
Robert, were cold.
It was the sort of day that, when you went to shout, your
cheeks were frozen solid and could only just about manage a "KWWAAARRM UUURRN
WRECCCCKI!!!" noise.
With only 10 turning up - including a dodgy emergency keeper
- it was always going to be tough, especially in the howling Arctic wind on
Clapham Common's frozen swamp.
But we tried playing a proper passing game until the end and
Robert scored our goal after a brilliant Total Football move where the ball
barely left the ground from one box to the other.
Got home to an email from Lyric's skipper Rob: "Cheers
for the game!"
We seem to have been getting rather a lot of those messages
in recent weeks.
Team: Jimmy Lloyd, Dan Davis, Joe Dunthorne, Rob Paddon,
Mario Pisano, Robert Linhares, Sandro Damiano, Tom Winter, Jordan, Joe Haley.