MEFF #13 –SHEIKH MANSOUR’S PLAYTHING 4 – 6 The Untouchables:
Fletch’s challenging team, The Untouchables, won a tense and extremely close MEFF encounter as Sheikh Mansour’s Plaything were finally toppled. In a startling turn of events, Sergio Aguero’s fantastic debut had to be moved off the back page of the Sun as news filtered through that Rowan had actually lost a MEFF game, despite scoring a goal after running the entire length of the pitch from the goalkeeper’s position!
As usual both teams could have scored a lot more, but the holiday blues and hurried finishes put a stop to that, while Rowan and Spence (making a rare appearance in goal) athletically tipped several goal-bound shots wide.
0-1: Pete (Patto knocked Fletch’s long pass into the path of Pete who smashed the ball into the top bin)
1-1: Neil (having appeared to have ruined his goal-scoring opportunity by fluffing a nutmeg after Luke’s pass, Neil then took on two defenders and poked a low shot over the diving Spence who had just been taunting him!)
2-1: Fletch (Griffin’s corner was headed back across goal by Griffiths at the back post, where Crozier was on hand to bring the ball down and set up Fletch for a bundled finish)
2-2: Rowan (Rowan rampaged forward from his box and was completely unchallenged for the entire length of the pitch, before crashing a finish beyond Spence’s despairing dive from 10 yards)
Half Time
3-2: Own Goal (Kieran took down Griffiths’ long throw at the back post, and his high shot was stabbed into the net by the diving Fletch)
3-3: Patto (having skinned Taylor down the left wing, Patto’s trailing leg was caught in the area, with the subsequent penalty dispatched through Rowan’s jazz hands)
4-3: Brett (Brett shrugged off the challenges of Griffin as he dribbled into the area and hit a hard slice into the bottom right corner)
4-4: Crozier (a quick counter-attack allowed Pete to square across the face of the goal for Crozier to finish confidently)
4-5: Pete (having taken down a quick long ball from Crozier, Pete turned the defenders inside out before selling Rowan with a dummy and chipping into the empty net)
4-6: Fletch (another counter-attack saw The Untouchables stream forward and Fletch finished off the move after Pete had dragged it back)
Men of the Match were Tooby, because “he scored a goal”, and Pete, as “we had to chase him around a lot”.
