26/07/09: “Core 8” you said? At 07 15, only three of us were present! One did notify, past midnight, that he would not be coming. Hopefully, one of those present had two newly recruited players who were already on their way from Rose-Hill. Now, what can you possibly do with 5 players on a football field? Put one as goalie, field a 2 v/s 2 match. The person who scores takes the goalie’s place who, in turn, replaces the person in the two-man team… harsh times call for harsh measures!
A couple of goals down this run-out formula later, we noticed a few fringe players who didn’t get to play among the “Skilled Ones” on the main football field. We called them up for a match. A 6-a-side was set up, and we were soon running rampage: we were leading the “Skilled Ones” fringe players by 5-0 after 30 mins. However, just after they pulled one back “pour l’honneur”, the strangest event you’ll ever see on a football field occurred.
We had just scored our 6th goal, turning around as we waited for the opposite team to kick-off again, when a third team appeared out of nowhere… and lifted the cages and took them away! As we stood there in disbelief, we realised it was a third team who usually arrive a bit later on Sunday morning, who claim that the football cages are “theirs”. Apparently one of them “made those for the Mahatma Gandhi Institute”, giving them rights over the cages.
Our match ended that very moment, as the “Skilled Ones” fringe players walked away. The “Cagenappers” just struck.
Next episode: Rotaract to the rescue!
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July 27, 2009 at 16:14
El Presidente Krish
According to my calculations, we were actually humiliating the fringe players of the “skilled ones” by 8-1 when the most astounding and amazing incident in the history of football. I actually thought that we were confronted with “voleur feraille” trying to earn a living by selling the goal cage!!!
Anyways I hope that this does not become a trend…we might actually see the same thing happen during the world cup final where in the middle of the match some shady zulus just barge on the pitch to kidnap the “POTO”!!!
July 27, 2009 at 18:46
1132nd
6-1 or 8-1… At this point you stop counting! I must have missed 2 goals when i retreated to full-back position. We were outrunning them in the midfield, we had to balance things up to maintain the fun.