So friday at work was a bit random! Sent a lot of text messages to someone who was obviously bored whilst waiting for cricket to start at Trent Bridge, as they kept replying 
Also played a guessing game with Geoffrey as to wether or not there would be any play from Trent Bridge on the friday, as the outfield was piss-wet through due to rain on the previous few days! I won in the end, byt saying it’s be bout 3ish before they started haha! Altho we’ll let him off, as he went into Mansfield at dinner, and came back with 5 sausage rolls of the David Boots variety! Anyone who loves sausage rolls, must give this guy a visit! They’re amazingly filling, and 2 will last me from dinner to tea time, if not beyond 
Friday night was spent with a pizza watching Transformers with a few Amaretto and Cokes Transformers was an amazing film!
On my way to having my haircut i saw my sister who’d been on her driving test, wanting to turn into her street, and wanting to turn out was our Malc with Lewi and Owen in the car . So let our hev’s instructor into the street, then sat at the junction for a few minutes chatting to our Malc about this and that, and waving at our Owen hehehe! Got to the hairdressers, and Claire was nothing but nasty to me as usual! hehe! She claims I got up to something in Bratislava, and wouldnt tell her, but said i had a lucky escape not going through with the wedding and that… and that I had to look at her husband Jay as a perfect example!! For some reason I was knackered, so decided to have a “Power Nap” haha! Next thing i knew it was 6.30 and moments later Wayniac rang me to ask if I was in, coshe was gonna come round and sort the immersion heater, and any electric problems caused. Didnt take him too long to sort out, altho he had to nip to his house in Mansfield to get a fuse
Got up sunday and got all my football shit together, and headed over to Homebase to meet Brad and the rest of the Rachells mob. Turns out both Brad and Moorey had been trying to get in touch with me over the week, but with my sim card not being active, I had no idea! We ended up playing in the heart of Bellamy Road, not too far from Ollys house, and played against Ryans old team! I knew 2 or 3 of their players from a night down mansfield with them and Ryan, and also knew Jamie Collier from our days as Titchfield/Potters! Was a great game attacking wise, but with our keeper out with a dislocated finger, Brad went in net! Otherwise we’d have won and not lost 7-5! Not impressed with one thing… Made a right mess of my right knee!! Got an astro-turf burn wednesday night, and basically went in for a tackle yesterday, and ripped the scab off, and also made the graze bigger 
So now it’s stinging like a mother fucker!
Got home, and phoned o2 to see why my sim card hadn’t been activated, even tho the woman on the phone on wednesday said it’d be 24 hours! Turns out the stupid woman hadn’t lifted the call barring, so the sim card was working but i couldnt send or receive calls or texts! This was done, and an apology made by the woman I was speaking too! Also i’m gonna be re-imbursed on my next phone bill for the inconvenience!! As I made it known that people were calling me ignorant for not replying to theirt text messages, even tho I had not been receiving them After a good 3 or 4 hours, the phone was working again, amid a mass flurry of texts!! from various people! Meatball if you’re reading this.. i only got the text you sent sunday morning about 8pm sunday night mate! Forgot to reply sorry!
Maddsy is in Skeg-Vegas this week, and phoned me to tell me comedy story number 1, cos he’d been up and taken Kieran out for a walk at 7 this morning, as Kieran was awake! They were in fantasy island or something last night, and this kid got his head stuck in one of the tall bar stools! And the kids mum was stood there crying, the dad holding his legs! So Maddsy and Scott ripped the top of the bar stool off or something, then when the woman from the bar came over, she just got a short “Could do with some wood glue on that duck”
Brad’s version of events…
What can i say? Great going forward not so great at the back.
With Bagi injured, Brad went in the nets, and to be fair was probably at fault for at least a couple of goals.
However we started the match in fine form and soon found ourselves 3-0 up after Nick,Malc and Bud all hit fine goals.
We went in at half-time 3-1 up.The second half started badly with Green Dragon scoring inside the first 5 mins,however a good volley by Malc put us two goals clear again. Then we seemed to fade again with a 20 minute purple patch in which they took a 5-4 lead.A goal by Winty got us back on level terms.
It stayed like that until the last 10 minutes when Green Dragon scored twice more.A cracking game with end to end football.However we looked very tired towards the end,but hopefully our fitness levels will increase after the next 2 friendlies.
A penalty shoot-out after the game ended up with us losing 4-2.Sammy and Bud missing their kicks and Malc and Nick scoring theirs.
Man of the match to Malc Birch, a good all round performance with 2 goals to show for it. Well done Malc.
(Note: this friendly match does not count towards the stats)
