I couldn't let it go a month without some Blogger action...

Hows Tom?

Interesting. Hopefully shows that Falkland were really crap/undermanned rather than Q being particularly spectacular. Also maybe shows that Turnpike have got some decent players in, or The Swan are going off the boil.

Not an unhealthy league position to be in, plus yesterday really was quite a good performance so that's encouraging. Sometimes goals are harder to come by, but we showed some character to come back from a position that we totally didn't deserve.

So at the moment our "what might have been" - as in if we'd got the win we deserved against Bucklebury and the win we deserved against Herm Res - isn't too much of a problem. Just need to keep taking each game as it comes. If we can pull off football like we did throughout the game yesterday we should still be in there fighting.

Results from the weekend:

Berks Arms 0 - 6 Kennet
Falkland 1 - 9 Q Associates
FC Hogs Head 2 - 2 Clock Tower Inn
Turnpike 4 - 2 Swan

Kennet played 9 - 18 Points
Q Ass played 7 - 17 Points
Hermitage Res played 8 - 14 Points
Shefford played 7 - 13 Points
Swan played 8 - 13 Points
Bluckbury played 8 - 13 Points
Hogs Head playes 8 - 12 Points
Clock Tower played 9 - 10 Points
Falkland played 8 - 8 Points
N'by PO played 8 - 7 Points
Turnpike played 8 - 6 Points
Berks Arms played 10 - 4 Points

True, but you should listen to him anyway.

Tough result - Crabbeman said you'd got hammered. Nothing more than a small blip, I'm sure...

The more Berkshire Arms results I see the more of a slap in the face that first game of the season was. The Swan put 8 past em and we put 5 past The Swan so no major worries from Turnpike. Seems more like Berks Arms have fallen apart, probably thought they were gonna be champions after beating us. We weren't even that bad against them. Strange.

Hermitage lost their first 2 games to dodgy teams (incl Turnpike) but have had some better results since then so it sounds like they've had players either return or signed new ones. Should be a good game on Sunday I'm looking forward to it.

Albeit in the Berks & Bucks Cup so I guess they could have played as shocking as us, but a couple of interesting results. I assume Turnpike have a stronger squad now.

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Berkshire Arms v Turnpike Sports [ Round 2 ]

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Bucklebury v Swan (Compton) [ Round 2 ]

Sillsy. Lost 7-2. Berks & Bucks Cup. A few players out but not enough to warrant that shower of shit. A few players need their heads checking. That is all.

No, week off this week for us, so I didn't miss any chances!

Squad seems to be getting a little more settled though, been quite a lot of positive signs in the first few matches. Actually, I reckon if the best 11 turned up, we'd probably get some good results. Even with it chopping and changing, there is enough to suggest some decent performances could be son in coming. Tend to get off to a good start, lose a sloppy goal, and go from there...

Sorry Sillsy - allow me...

The Swan 0 - 5 Shefford

Big win, as The Swan have got off to a good start to the season, and had the 2nd best defence in the league (behind us), so to get 3 points was great, to keep a clean sheet was better and to spank 5 past em was even better again.

Basically, we dominated for the full 90 minutes. Got off to a strong start and fired in some early shots and they just didn't seem up to it. Lewis had a great shot tipped onto the post by their keeper, but within 10 minutes he fired one in from outside the area.

It stayed 0 - 1 til halftime - they had a good chance to equalise but fired over and we had multiple chances to stretch the lead out.

Started well in the 2nd half and after about 10 minutes Lewis fired home again after their defence didn't deal with a long ball properly. Then Dave Screw threaded a pin point accurate pass to Macca who fired a goal of the season contender to make it 3. Then Lewis put the ball across for Andy Miller to tap the ball in cos their defence had gone to pot by then. Then Lewis hit a shot straight through their keeper for our 5th and his hat trick.

Had a lot of other chances as well. If their strikers could have finished properly they might have made a game of it cos they missed a couple of good chances at key moments, but we were way better than them - I think we were all quite surprised.

So a good day out all in all, although as you can see from below I'm now suffering from something like whiplash cos of a challenge on me. Very painful.

Did you play?

What was the score then?

WHERE'S MY UPDATE?!?!?!

Everybody, Smurf just disappeared.

POOF !!!!

No major surprises there I suppose, just shows that Hermitage have obviously either turned a corner, got players back or signed a few new lads, though a 3-1 win over Kennet isn't really that special. Good result for us though, as it's Kennet's first loss.

Plenty of teams to watch out for though and we've seen how thin a line it can be between a 5-0 win and a 0-1 defeat. If we can concentrate and work as hard as we did yesterday going forward there's no reason why we shouldn't be up there scrapping for it.

Our "Goals Against" shines out like a fucking beacon in that league table.

Really enjoyed watching that yesterday, though I woke up at 3am this morning realising that I've got whiplash from that challenge. Fucking agony, have nearly been sick through the pain. Just dosed myself up on ibuprofen and am sat very, very still...

Results from the weekend:

Berkshire Arms 2 - 4 Newbury Post Office
Bucklebury 0 - 2 Hogs Head Res
Clock Tower 2 - 2 Falkland
Kennet 1 - 3 Hermitage Res

Kennet played 8 - 15 Points
Swan played 7 -13 Points
Bucklebury played 8 - 13 Points
Shefford played 6 - 12 Points
Q Ass played 5 - 11 Points
Hogs Head played 7 - 11 Points
Hermitage Res played 6 - 10 Points
Clock Tower played 8 - 9 Points
Falkland played 7 - 8 Points
N'by Po played 8 - 7 Points
Berkshire Arms played 9 - 4 Points
Tuenpike played 7 - 8 Points

True - and from what I saw of Kennet in their game against PO on the pitch next to us, they weren't exactly brilliant considering they're now top of the league. Though if they'd seen 5 of the 6 goals we conceded on Sunday, they won't exactly be scared of us either...

Bucklebury 'just' beat us and then get stuffed 4-0, come April there's likely to be 4/5 teams fighting for the title at this rate.

5	1	Clock Tower Inn v Berkshire Arms
3	3	FC Hogs Head Reserves v Falkland
4	0	Hermitage Reserves v Bucklebury
2	1	Kennet v Newbury Post Office

Yeah the other results were probably as friendly as they could have been. As Screw says, other people will take points of Bucklebury this season, and hopefully we will next time we play them. Q Ass obviously have defensive issues which is good.

As for yesterday, we played quite well, we've played worse and beaten better teams. Just one of those things that happens now and then. I'll try not to move people around quite so much when making subs in future, think that might have been part of the reason we didn't flow quite as well in the second half, but even then their goal came from nowhere, wasn't as though they had a host of chances.

We just have to pick ourselves up. It was a slap in the face, nobody's fault, no one to blame, everyone played well, just didn't work out for us. Probably good to have a good tough cup game coming up to focus the minds and if other teams are playing league matches it means we'll drop a bit and not focus on league position so much - just concentrate on individual games. That's what happened the first time we won Div 2, where we didn't really know where we were in the league til Feb time.

In terms of our league position we actually got off very lightly with 'Q' drawing and Hogs Head losing to a team below us. We can't afford to be losing games anymore though otherwise the top team are going to start pulling away. The Swan are banging in the goals that for sure. Does anyone know anyone that plays for them?

Turnpike look as if they can't raise a side so I wouldn't be surprised if they pulled out the league anytime soon...

Cross keys next week in the cup which should be a good test for us as they are likely to be a decent side...

Results

Berkshire Arms 6-2 Swan (Compton)

Falkland 4-1 FC Hogs Head Reserves

Hermitage Reserves v Turnpike Sports [ Postponed ]

Kennet 4-1 Clock Tower Inn

Q Associates 5-5 Newbury Post Office

Shefford 0-1 Bucklebury

League

12 Teams	Games Played	Games Won	Games Drawn	Games Lost	Goals For	Goals Against	Goal Difference	Points
Swan (Compton)	6	4	1	1	24	6	+18	13
Bucklebury	6	4	1	1	15	5	+10	13
Kennet	6	3	3	0	17	9	+8	12
Q Associates	5	3	2	0	16	10	+6	11
Shefford	5	3	0	2	12	4	+8	9
FC Hogs Head Reserves	5	2	1	2	12	15	-3	7
Falkland	5	2	0	3	14	14	+0	6
Clock Tower Inn	6	1	2	3	15	21	-6	5
Hermitage Reserves	4	1	1	2	7	10	-3	4
Newbury Post Office	6	0	4	2	12	16	-4	4
Berkshire Arms	7	1	1	5	11	33	-22	4
Turnpike Sports	5	1	0	4	10	22	-12	3

Yeah, but we've got a new kit.

Dave Lewis correctly pointed out last night that The Sun have in fact now played 5 games and have won 4 lost 1. They are 2nd in their division only having lost to the team who are top.

He further pointed out that it wasn't Caversham who beat us last season, it was Spread Eagle, who were bottom, of the division below.

Um...

Sourcenet Solutions 20 14 4 2 63 19 46
Eastern Rangers 20 11 5 4 65 48 38
HENLEY TOWN RES 20 11 4 5 34 24 37
Aura 20 9 4 7 39 41 31
The Sun 20 8 5 7 49 49 29
Thames Conservancy 20 8 4 8 54 47 28
Henley YMCA 20 8 4 8 30 30 28
The Mod 20 6 5 9 37 45 23
Alfreds Head Ath. 20 5 5 10 35 47 20
Autocare 20 6 2 12 51 20 20
Caversham United 20 2 2 16 24 52 8


Last season's finishing positions in their table. Top of the chasing pack. Wasn't it Caversham United we played last season and laughed at their shite position in the league table and then lost? Uh-oh...

Assuming it's the same 'The Sun' we won't really have a clue what they're like. Play two, won 1 lost 1


*** Division DIVISION 2 CENTRAL

Team P W D L F A Pts
WRIGHTCHOICE 2 2 0 0 9 0 6
ALFREDS HEAD ATHLETIC 2 2 0 0 9 4 6
HENLEY TOWN RES 1 1 0 0 2 1 3
AUTOCARE 1 1 0 0 1 0 3
CAVERSHAM TOWN 1 1 0 0 0 0 3
SUN (THE) 2 1 0 1 5 7 3
NO LIMITS 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
THAMES CONSERVANCY 1 0 0 1 2 3 0
AURA 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
CLUB DEPORTIVO LA STAR 2 0 0 2 1 3 0
HENLEY YMCA 1 0 0 1 1 3 0
R.A.O.B. 1 0 0 1 0 8 0

http://www.berks-bucksfa.com/countyCups/Sunday+Junior+Cup/

Cool - thanks for the correction Matt. Ads, sorry I forgot it was your quality cross. In my defence, I had been running around for about 15 minutes by then. After 10 minutes my brain stops committing anything to memory in an attempt to protect myself from post-traumatic stress disorder.

My memory of last week's training is a jog around Henwick and then Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

Many thanks for the report, and the correction. I was thinking something didn't seem right.

Just for the report - it was Ad who put the ball in for Lewies' second header.

Three draws at the weekend which is good for us. The Swan are looking one of the better teams in the league, although they lost 2-1 to Q Ass earlier on in the season.

*Although we lost to 'Dicks Utd' so there's a good chance they jut had a bad game too...

Yesterday's other results:-

Bucklebury 5 - 1 Falkland
HH Res 2 - 2 Berks Arms
Kennet 1 - 1 Q Ass
Newb PO 2 - 2 Herm Res
Swan 5 - 1 Clocktower

Leaves us 4th in the table on 9 points, 1 point behind each of Q Ass (3rd), Bucklebury (2nd) and Swan (1st) and with a game in hand on Swan and Bucklebury. We're in the familiar position of having conceded the least goals in the division. Let's see it stay that way.

Makes Sunday's match all the more important as a 6-pointer against Bucklebury.

For the benefit of Mr Sills, here's an overview of yesterday's game.

Turnpike suck. Their players are rubbish and they only had 9 men. Apparently Jenny (Tony's girlfriend) has a younger brother who's signed on for them. Fair enough he is quite young, but they hadn't even phoned him to see if he would play for them. Better to have him on the pitch and stick him up front surely? Just tell him to chase everything. Ah well. So anyway they only had 9 players, and at least 4 of them were very poor.

So we decided to pull out a right stinker. You can expect them to dig in a bit and hold out for as long as possible, but we made it harder for us than they did. Lewis fired in what he made to look like an easy goal after about 15 minutes, (Owen would have fired it straight at the keeper) but after that we struggled. Not struggled in terms of under pressure (they had one good chance to equalise but it fell to one of their players who was rubbish and he shot wide) but struggled in terms of having too much time/space/options. Consequently people either held onto the ball for too long while sizing up the passing options, tried to play a killer ball because they weren't under any pressure just to pass it to the nearest person, or tried to do the right thing but for some reason (too relaxed maybe?) didn't kick the ball properly and gave it away.

Really frustrating to watch and there was a bit of moaning going on. A lot of that moaning was me, so I tried to bite my tongue and encourage instead. Hard work though. Matty went on at half time and provided a reminder of what composure is, but with 15 minutes of the second half gone it was still only 1-0 and I started to get a little nervous of them nicking an equaliser and putting us under real pressure. They've pretty much lined 7 players up along their 18 yard line and left 1 guy up front, but we couldn't break them down.

Browny and I went on with 30 minutes to go and after 5 minutes Crabbeman's slipped me the ball on the left hand side. Lots of space and time to pick out Lewis and he's nutted it in giving the keeper no chance. Within a couple of minutes Lewis has picked the ball up on the edge of the D, jinked right to open up some space and fired a fizzing shot straight through all of them and into the net. Then a couple of minutes later again someone (can't remember who crossed it, might have been Crabbeman) crossed it over for Lewis to head it back across the keeper and in again.

After that we had a fair few other chances, one came off my nipple (still sore today) and Lewis was hungry for a double hat trick but couldn't find the net again.

Big shouting match with their linesman/manager too. They got a corner and everybody except their keeper went up into the box. Lewis and I stood up on the halfway line telling Smurf that as soon as he got the ball to launch it. That's what happened and their manager's taken a couple of steps and then put his flag up. Cheating bastard. Lewy and I have gone for him, calling him everything under the sun. The ref didn't do anything so we laid in a bit more.

Later on I've gone over to take a corner and he said "See I've let you go there" cos he hadn't flagged as I was running through. I said "That's cos I was onside" and he said "Yeah but you have a go at me when I do flag but you don't say thank you when I don't." Prick. Man of his age, in charge of impressionable young men and blatantly cheating like that when you're already 4 goals down. Should be ashamed of himself.

Anyway, that's how it ended. We played much better in the second half of the second half. I guess it was just an awkward match, but easily the worst we've played for a long time, til we got that 2nd goal, then we started finding feet a bit more and doing what worked.

Got the new kit in now so we can wear that for the first time against Bucklebury on Sunday. They've not had a bad start to the season but haven't been tested up against anyone decent yet. Think we may have a full squad to choose from too for the first time this season.

"Freak gust of wind earns point at Oxford"

I bet it was a goal of the season contender...

Oxford Utd 3-3 Torquay: Sills (89)

Started playing for a new team eh Sillsy?!!

As for the cup:-

Kennet beat Falkland 3-2
Swan beat Hogs Head Res 4-2
Hermitage beat Turnpike 3-2

So that's us v Hermitage in the next round.

Berkshire Arms 3 - Clocktower 6

Post Office 1 - Bucklebury 1

We're currently 5th in the league with 6 points and with a game in hand over 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Q are top on 9.

Sillsy it was excellent! We actually started quite poorly, too many players unable to get on their toes so they were winning all 50-50 balls and their movement and passing was good. We started having a bit more of the ball and it was looking quite nicely balanced but then they got a free kick and the guy had a free header at the far post, didn't even have to jump. (Ben held his hand up at half time and said that it was his man and he'd let him get away from him which was very honest of him to do, especially as we were still losing at that point).

One goal down wasn't such a problem, but within a minute the ball's come through heading back towards Smurf, Smurf's shouted for it but JT's headed it back to him anyway, the slight change of direction was enough for Smurf to have to stretch, couldn't gather it and their striker was able to walk it into the net. Really bad goal to concede at a really bad time to concede a goal.

They got a bit more vocal then, they could obviously sense that we were there for the taking. A couple of retards turned up to watch them too and were being all mouthy but, get this, the ref told them to shut up. And they pretty much did. Very strange, good ref.

Crabbeman worked really hard in the middle shouting at everyone to keep people's spirits up and you could begin to see us gradually getting back into the game til Ben's fired in a lovely cross pinpoint accurate for Miller to head in at the far post. Great goal and that was about a minute or two before half time. Made a massive difference cos we all spent half time fired up and looking forward to getting back at them but they went in quite deflated.

Second half was all us, totally different game. They were destroyed just by being pegged back to 2-1 and then they realised we'd just put Lewis on as well. Ben had been working hard down the right but suddenly he was getting past his man every time. Macca came into the game down the left and started getting past him too. Genghis was up supporting attacks. Dave Screw was winning everything in midfield and pinging balls all over the shop and they just didn't know what was going on.

Lewis fired in a great shot but it cannoned back off the bar, but Ben picked it up and hit it flying into the top corner, but it's come back of the post, off the keeper's face and into the net. It was a good combination of a quality goal and a comedy goal and everyone piled onto Ben cos it was also the equaliser.

Never looked back really, we spent most of the rest of the game in their half. Macca had a brilliant header at close range but their keeper pulled off and excellent save to tip it over the bar, but from the corner Screw's drilled it in and Chris Miller's stabbed it home to put us ahead. Then Miller's dinked himself round the last defender and placed the ball past the keeper to make it four. Then I got the ball just inside the box and could hear Lewis screaming for it. Looked up and he's on the edge of the D totally unmarked. Slid him the ball and he's placed it into the bottom corner to make it five.

All that and they didn't have a shot on target. From being a bit mouthy and confident at two up they just shrank and shrank, argued a bit with themselves and then went home.

They're three wins from three in the league too so not only was it their first defeat (it was a cup match) but it sends out a great message to the rest of the league that we're gonna be one of the teams to beat this season.

Really enjoyed it. I wanted to give myself the second half but Miller was having such a good game I couldn't take him off.

Then Crabbeman and I got pissed and went for a curry.

Sounds like you lot put in a storming performance today!

john that is comical genius i think you have missed your calling

So did Crabbeman score with a header?

Nice one - that puts Q Ass at 3 wins out of 3, and shows that Berks Arms win against us is going to be their best result of the season, they've gone shit since then - but then we said if we'd got a second goal they'd have probably fallen apart against us.

Tough game coming up on Sunday then against Q, but we know we can beat them.

Results from the weekend were:

Bucklebury 6 - 1 Turnpike
Clock Tower 2 - 4 Q Associates
Kennet 5 - 2 Falkland
Swan 8 - 0 Berks Arms

Anyone know any of the league scores from the weekend? Just wondering whether we managed to miraculously stay top without playing?

Definitely one to tell the grandkids. "...and then I knobbed it over the line..."

Goal of the season is already over boys a one yard testical tap in!!!!!!!

If you can play golf you can go in goal you poof! ;o)

I can say that as I'm already sub on Sunday!!

Still a bit dicey, i have a golf match tomorrow and i will know more after that.

PO Res beating Kennet seems to be the only 'surprise' really. That's a Div 2 team beating a Div 1 team, but we beat Kennet twice when we were Div 2. I think HH Res might be a bit better prepared for us on Sunday so we'll have to see.

Smurf how's your ribs?

Results from this weeks cup games.

Obviously it doesn't affect us but gives us an indication how other teams did against each other and some Premier teams... Although I don't think there's even one surprise result in there!


Blue Ball 1 v 4 Q Associates
Coopers Arms 2 v 6 Swan (Compton)
Falkland 0 v 7 Hermitage
Hampstead Norreys 1 v 6 Cross Keys
Kennet 2 v 3 Newbury Post Office Reserves
Meadway 0 v 5 Turnpike Sports
Newthatch 6 v 2 Clock Tower Inn
Partick 0 v 7 Brimpton
Purestone 3 v 8 FC Hogs Head
Vodafone 4 v 2 Shalbourne
WKD 6 v 1 Thatcham Redsox
Berkshire Arms 5 v 2 Burghclere

And here's a link to it on googlemaps (online version) so you can have a look around from the air...

For all those that were interested in coming to my wedding next July. This is the site : -

http://www.palaceresorts.com/Resorts/MoonPalace/Index.asp

Yes we won and yes Smurfy pulled off some saves. One in particular that had everyone pinching themselves to see if they were dreaming.

We were down to the bare 11 as there was no Matt, Lewis, Screw or JT and I turned up to be sub but decided to die at the side of the pitch instead, courtesy of some germs picked up at my niece's birthday party the day before.

Bare in mind that Falkland beat Berks Arms 6-0 last week and Berks Arms had beaten us 2-1 the week before. We started quite brightly and Macca put us a goal up early on when he went one on one with the keeper. Then we were 2-0 up shortly after with a lovely passing move that led Macca to fizz the ball across the 6 yard box where Browny had lost his marker and just had to sidefoot it in. Browny then had a one on one but had to take the ball a long way and overcooked it on his way so the keeper could come out and gather it up. We had a few more attacks as well but I missed some of it cos I was in the river.

Then they got one back from a corner but Smurfy held his hands up cos Macca was gonna head it away then Smurfy called for it but couldn't claim it. Left their guy with a tap in, dunno why he wasn't marked.

But we reacted really well and after a few more attacks Macca restored the 2 goal lead - I missed it (in the river again).

Second half again we started brightly and had a few good chances to score but they put a lot of pressure on us. While they saw a lot more of the ball in the second half our defence pretty much soaked them up. I remember one chance that they definitely should have scored but their striker miss hit it terribly. Then with about 10 minutes to go the ball's spilled out from a corner to a guy unmarked about 5 yards outside the box. He's taken one touch and then launched a shot that was cruising into the top corner. As soon as he hit it I was considering sitting Browny back into a 5 man midfield to break them up a bit and stop them getting a 3rd but Smurf's appeared out of nowhere, flying through the skies like a superhero, right hand outstretched like God annointing his subjects and tips the ball over the bar.

Not only did it save us from what would have been a very nervous finish (or worse), but it pretty much showed Falkland that they weren't going to score and we ran out the rest of the game a lot more comfortably.

All in all, we well deserved the win and it could have been by more. A second top quality performance in a row, so typically there's no game this weekend...

Mr Sills

You do know that the warm up before the game does not count!!! actually it was quite windy on Sunday so maybe.....

Does that mean Shefford won at the weekend, and you produced some stunning saves?

I made my debut for a team in Bracknell... set one up and scored one! Yep, I scored!

There wasnt a comment on there that said:

For a fat git Smurf can sure fly through the air to the top corner of his goal.

I like the one that reads:

'Smurf is an obese 43 year old woman'


(leave your own comment here, so that Smurf can hit you on Sunday)

For those of you who don't know www.googlism.com - it's a little fun thing that google did where you can put in something and it delivers back existing text from the net that tells you what/who/where stuff is... It's fun for about 2 minutes.

I put in "Smurf" for example and results include...

smurf is back
smurf is slowly going byebye
smurf is the leader of the whole smurf village
smurf is the ringleader of the gang
smurf is in perfect condition; white hat
smurf is da man
smurf is always playing his horn announcing important smurf issues
smurf is actually an obese 43 year old woman
smurf is faster or more maneuverable than the next
smurf is a communist
smurf is probably the most powerful smurf there is
smurf is a bumbling idiot that others have to keep away from any task at hand
smurf is good
smurf is devastating
smurf is determined to fly in the air
smurf is the only smurf in a red uniform
smurf is demanding protection berries
smurf is someone who regularly yet unintentionally screws things up
smurf is battery operated and actually sings
smurf is pretty impressive
smurf is still idle
smurf is one of the best role players in philadelphia and probably in the top five on the east coast
smurf is trapped in his or her own smurfy abode in the middle of his or her own bad dream

I'm bored at work today.

Pos Club Played Won Drawn Lost For Against GD Points
1 Swan 2 1 1 0 4 1 3 4
2 Falkland 1 1 0 0 6 0 6 3
3 Shefford 2 1 0 1 5 2 3 3
4 Q Associates 1 1 0 0 4 1 3 3
5 Bucklebury 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
6 Hogs Head Res 2 1 0 1 4 5 -1 3
7 Turnpike 2 1 0 1 5 7 -2 3
8 Berkshire Arms 2 1 0 1 2 7 -5 3
9 Kennet 2 0 2 0 3 3 0 2
10 Clocktower 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1
11 Newbury PO 2 0 0 2 1 5 -4 0
12 Hermitage Res 2 0 0 2 4 8 -4 0

Oof.

But then, if we'd taken some of our quick chances after Dave had put us one up a 6-0 wouldn't have been unbelievable. But we'll have to be right on our game on Sunday. Good timing to have prison training tonight!

Results from the weekend:

Berkshire Arms 0 - 6 Falkland
Clock Tower 2 - 2 Kennet
The Swan 3 - 0 Newbury PO
Turnpike 4 - 3 Hermitage Res

http://www.football.mitoo.co.uk/FixtResMonth.cfm?TblName=Matches&DivisionID=2479&LeagueCode=NDSFL2007&MonthNo=9

Here's the link to that Football Mitoo site that has all the fixtures and league tables and stuff. Still yet to update the latest scores though grrr....

Falkland (who we play this Sunday) played Berks Arms last Sunday, so it'll give us some random idea of how good they are - though we could have beaten Berks Arms so it probably won't tell us that much unless it's a 7-0 either way.

It's probably already happened...

I wonder if Dale will be awake for the next conception.

Any other results from the weekend? The league table as I have it has us top but that's only cos it's us and HH Res who have played 2 games...

Congrats to Genghis, who has sired his 4th child, baby Katie, born either last night or this morning. Give it a few months and Dale should be ready to go again.

Well done today gents - great to bounce back with a win and a really strong performance too. I had a feeling we'd apply ourselves well today but thought they might have been a bit strong for us, so it was great to play some really good stuff, look the better team for the full 90 minutes, create a hatful of chances other than the ones we scored and keep a clean sheet too. Can't ask for much more than that.

Another new lot next week with the match against Falkland so it'd be good to go in on the back of a good 90 minutes like that.

Yes good work Genghis. Let them win and then injure their players so everyone else beats em. Real smart. Double murder run.

This morning I saw the fella the Genghis 'tackled' on Sunday and had to go off injured... He was hobbling like an old man and wasn't bending his leg as if it was wooden.
He didn't look in a good way at all!

Good work...

Bucklebury 2 Newbury Post Office 1
Falkland ClockTower Postponed
FC Hogs Head Reserves 4 Hermitage Reserves 1
Q Assocs 4 Turnpike 1
Swan 1 Kennet 1

In our case - hopefully next week!

Lost 2-1 to Berks Arms yesterday. It was our first league game of the season...

When does the season start gents?

Still sober at this point.

I just don't know what to say.

Photos from the awards do are up on Facebook, later on I'll whack a few others on here plus some vids on both... There are some things I don't want my friends seeing what my other friends get up to.

Lol - that reminds me - not asking for yoghurt sauce on mine either.

Dirty little slapper (though possibly not deserving to be cut up and fed to pissed up football teams). I can't believe this story hasn't made absolute mainstream headlines...

Would have been better if her name was Donna

If we ever go back to Blackpool again there's no way in hell I'm eating a kebab...







The trial, now in its tenth week at Preston Crown Court, has heard Albattikhi owned Funny Boyz fast food shop in Blackpool.

Charlene was one a number of young white girls said to have had sex with older men who worked in the town's fast food shops.

Charlene spent her time hanging around shops on the Blackpool Promenade and was last seen on the early evening of Saturday November 1 2003.

After kissing her mother goodbye she went off on her own - and vanished off the face of the earth, the jury has heard.

A missing persons inquiry began, but police later launched a murder investigation after information "leaked out" that the girl had been "killed and chopped up".

Police bugged the defendant's flat and gathered tapes where he is alleged to have talked about having sex with Charlene, killing her and the body being eaten.

Albattikhi, a Jordanian immigrant, denies murder. His business partner and landlord Mohammed Reveshi, 50, originally from Iran, denies helping to dispose of the body.

Both men told the court they never knew Charlene.

The jury was sent home until Wednesday when it will resume its deliberation.

What a cock. I've got all the kit and Smurf's just noticed there are no numbers.

Cock it.

I tried on the shorts last night in a more realistic situation i.e. without jeans on underneath.

I think they'll be fine for most of us. I have pretty chunky thighs too, though not on the same scale as Lewis and they were fine around my waist and fine around my thighs, they just don't flap around like the old shorts. So I think they'll be good for most of us and I got 4 pairs of larger ones so we can try stuff on on Thursday and then I'll exchange/buy more as needed.

Getting the socks swapped too, phew!

Yeah - and I only tried on one of the smaller pairs, not the larger ones. And even then they were on over my jeans. Hopefully it'll just encourage players to stay slim :-) but then like you say it's the issue of your thigh-girth...

We'll see, but it all looks quite smart and good quality, except the socks, which are blue but even when we get the right colour ones they look as though someone's nan has knitted them.

The kit looks good. The test for the shorts will be if they manage to fit my tree trunks most other people will be fine....

Our new kit has arrived...



Bit of an issue with the socks (Navy and yellow rather than black and yellow) so they're going back and a potential issue with the shorts (they look kinda small) so we'll all try a pair on on Thursday night and see if we need to get different sizes or not. I tried a pair on over my jeans and they felt fine, they just look small when you hold them up... Hopefully they'll be fine.

Satanic thoughts, Sillsy. Dark, dark, satanic thoughts allegedly.

A Cub Scouts jamboree during one of the most important moments in Shefford F.C.'s history?

WHAT ARE THEY THINKING?!

Breaking NDSFL news!

Shefford FC in discussions with West Berkshire County Council about a groundshare agreement at Fortress Northcroft.

Two newly elected clubs are bidding for a lucrative groundshare agreement with Shefford FC at their Fortress Northcroft home.

Details were leaked by the council when Asst Manager Shane Bellamy phoned up to enquire about booking a pitch for an upcoming friendly.

The unnamed source at the council said "Hold on, I've dropped my pen" but then went on to explain that The Lion are frontrunners for the groundshare given the pub's proximity to the ground. Shefford squads of old have been known to drink in The Lion after games, but as it's a bit minging and the new owners aren't as good as the old owners they don't tend to do that anymore.

The NDSFL were unavailable for comment as senior figures were hosting a Cub Scouts jamboree at a private residence at the time.

Oh, and it seems that there are no pitches readily available for friendlies with the possible exception of Bucklebury. Shefford's board have attempted to make contact with the necessary people to secure a booking...

Okay I've booked The Raj in Reading for 6.30pm on Saturday 18th August, for 15 people.

I know that's a little early but I figured by the time we've got there, eaten and done the presentations it'd be nice to have time for a few beers afterwards. Plus if people have difficulty getting there for that time cos they work Saturdays then we can always move it back a bit, easier than trying to move it forwards.

So there.