The meeting of the top two teams in Division 3NW would always be rather interesting. Runaway leaders Camb City against dogged, injury hit Kettering.
These are the days when everyone needs to turn up, not throw up! We managed one but not the other.
In fairness, Camb City are by far and away the best team we’ve played this season but self destructing in pretty much every way. doesn’t help. We are all athletes in the 2s and know that an early night, proper hydration etc are what turns us into elite Saturday afternoon sportsmen. An evening in Wetherspoon’s is not the hydration that is usually recommended and Zach’s car is now testament to the result of their slightly ‘on the turn’ ale. The guilty shall remain nameless.
Once on the pitch things went from worse to worser. Mills B picked up an early green card and no marking saw City score. The usually reliable aging keeper Barry then missed a sitter after Smith T lost possession. 2-0. A scramble made it 3-0 then a terrible bobble went over Barry’s foot. 4-0, game over, not even half time. We made it to half time!
Kettering improved a bit in the second half although went 5-0 down before a rare foray into City territory saw a short corner turn into a stroke that Mills B tucked away. (I’ve played in a 5-5 here before but there was little chance this was going to be that exciting). Two Touch went off after taking a heavy hit to the foot from a short and Ewan took a whack to the face and also went off. Tatty got his regulation green card and then Mills B and Hawkins M both received their marching orders for 5 mins. A game that was tricky with 11 became doubly difficult with 9 and City duly scored a 6th late on.
If you have a bad day at the office it’s better to get it out of the way all at once with notable exceptions being Zack, Mills A and Ed. We roll our sleeves up and go again next week, at home to St Ives, looking to bounce back to winning ways.

City will probably win the league with about 8 games to spare and the rest of the teams are now probably battling to avoid being second!!

Onwards and upwards.