Horizontals

On the way to Monday night football again. Interesting game. To start with our team failed to take our chances, while the other lot kept taking theirs. We found ourselves 1-5 down and I was starting to think it was going to be one of those nights. And then. At the near post I managed one of those outrageous back-heel-through-the-legs flicks that rarely come off that not only worked but bamboozled M in their goal. I know it fired me up to try a little bit harder, and I think the rest of our team did the same as moments later J found himself in space and lashed in another. Now we had our tails up, as they say in football-commentator-speak, getting to the ball first, making the pass, running into space. And sure enough we got two more in fairly quick succession to pull ourselves level. At which point a very late N arrived, to give the other team an extra man. Ah well, that would probably be an end to our recovery, I thought. Only R then mis-hit an outrageous lob that fooled everyone and dipped under the bar to put us in front again and although they managed a scrambled reply almost immediately, we seemed to just keep scoring from then on. I laid on a few for team mates and got a couple more myself from close range and we ran out comfortable winners in the end - 11-7 to the good. Most satisfying.