It was a warm, sunny spring day and the lads turned up in force. Sam was away so Frank went in between the pipes and performed admirably. Andy and Rob were back from injuries so the shape of the team was solid. The only slightly unsettling issue was that Rob's boots did not perfectly match his shirt. Anyway, to the action. We scored first with a cracker from Cain. They scored and leveled things and we went into the half tied at one apiece. At halftime there was a lot of talk ... we need to play wider, we need to play narrower, we need to keep it simple, we need to push up .... none of it really made any sense but some kind of consensus was reached and we went back to work. In the second half Douglas Hornblower Vigglialottapizza bagged one and Cain rounded things out with a third close to the final whistle. Caino bagged two on the day which is highly commendable for a natural left back. The Celtic were not at their best today but we were better than them and that's just fine.
Because of the heat the sweat quotient was high and Rob scrambled to get his dry shreddies on pitch side right after the final whistle ... this is a commendable commitment to the joy of having a dry undercarriage. I did the same thing in the wind tunnel between two cars in the parking lot and I confess that I let the air blow for quite some time ... quite pleasurable. I just hope that the cameras around the school did not pick up on this because I could have some splaining to do!
Jan Lebel representing our supporters club showed up for the second half and stood hand on hips overseeing proceedings with an icy stare ... no wonder things turned around for us. North Andover got a 7-0 tonking from Stoneham so our mid week debacle did not seem quite so bad.
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