Pat’s version

Full disclosure: The title is the funniest part of this report

Saturday afternoon brought the first Raiders vs Raiders match of the season. With 24 players (mostly) arriving to the pitch on time and no match beforehand both teams were ready to start at the kickoff time of 2 pm. A kickoff happening when it was meant to?! Finally! “Nonono”, said the CVA managers, “we must clean up this mess from an event this morning in the slowest way possible.”

So there the Raiders were, warming up and watching as the grounds crew at CVA rolled up banners, tied up rope, and carried sand bags off the pitch slower than Craig running up and down the wing. Nothing new here as the Raiders are used to starting late at CVA since almost all their matches were there last year.

The teams were pretty evenly picked despite some moaning from the whites about their center back pulling out at the last minute. They didn’t need to worry though because Petar stepped in nicely and did a fine job.

The two teams played three “periods” instead of the traditional “halves” that you normally see in a football match.

The first twenty minutes flew by as the whites scored nearly at will every time they got the ball into the Raiders box. Miquel stood strong with a 0% save percentage and the Reds soon found themselves down 4-0. Not all Miquel’s fault, he wasn’t getting much help from the rest of his teammates. Goals came from Emmanuel, Emmanuel, Wouter, and Jon (I think, I could be wrong, apologies). The whites finally got one back towards the end of the “period” as Mike slotted home a nice finish from outside the box.

The second “period” wasn’t much better as the whites won 2-1 (or maybe 1-0, I can’t remember) and took a commanding lead overall.

The final “period” was 30 minutes long and this saw a victory from the reds as Emmanuel switched teams and the tides turned in the Reds favor.

As you can probably tell I don’t remember much from this match. It was very hot, my feet were burning, on fire you might say, so my boots turned yellow, and I guess that got me a turkey nomination before the match even began. Daniel Vo somehow didn’t go to the right pitch… IT’S IN THE FUCKING APP YOU IDIOTS JUST READ THE MESSAGE COLIN SENDS EVERY WEEK!!! Since nobody else embarrassed themselves in any of the three “periods” Daniel Vo and myself got to write the match report this week.

Danny Vo’s version